Re: Blood runs good but...
Posted on 2007-05-14, 20:24
How about just trying to turn the cycles up until you notice problems? You can't damage your PC, as DOSBox is an ordinary software program, nothing special.
Re: IPXNET Speed
Posted on 2007-05-10, 11:46
Well, WoW is not nearly as latency-sensitive as online games like Counterstrike or probably IPX-based DOS games. It all depends on one basic question: "Can the program continue even if no answer from the remote side has arrived?". Old network protocols often do excessive handshaking, which means …
Re: UniCGA CGA emulator for Hercules
Posted on 2007-05-10, 11:35
C/E/VGA were not supposed to be Hercules-compatible (or vice versa), because the monochrome video adapters (MDA, HGC) had a separate video memory location at segment 0xb000, which enabled old systems to have one colour and one monochrome video adapter in a single system, early multi-head. I actually …
Re: IPXNET Speed
Posted on 2007-05-09, 07:50
Satellite connections have huge latencies. We're talking about 1-2 seconds due to speed-of-light and doing at least two trips (up, then down again) of several hundred km into the sky before your data hits the cable-based internet. A good wire-based internet connection (DSL, cable modem) easily gets …
Re: XCom 2 and 3
Posted on 2007-05-09, 07:36
Perhaps a broken copy? My old floppies from that time tend to die already, among them was my X-Com 2 floppy set. You could have a corrupted file without noticing it. You could try to replace DOS4GW with DOS32a (see the sticky topic in the forum for details). Apart from that and playing with …
Re: idea
Posted on 2007-05-02, 10:34
For the record, being an old-time OS/2 fan: Their is dosbox for the os/2 and i doubt those go faster than a pentium without being upgraded. Many of those are about 32 mhz and their is dosbox for pocket pc and those go around 32 mhz. OS/2 (or eCos, as it's called today) still works on current …
Re: DOSBox running with aalib - wtf?
Posted on 2007-04-22, 16:44
SDL:Unsupported output device ddraw, switching back to surface DirectDraw is a proprietary Microsoft API. Guess what other OSes support it? Right, none. The available choices for the "output" option for Linux are: surface, overlay, opengl, openglnb. BTW, you can select the SDL output device by …
Re: Mounting CDs in a config file in Ubuntu
Posted on 2007-04-21, 12:09
You could view it as a feature: since each directory is named by the CD label, you can easily write configuration files that mount the correct game directory, that way you can make sure the right CD is inserted. If you don't want that, you will have to change your media notifcations. I'm not …
Re: Creating a shortcut
Posted on 2007-04-19, 10:53
You're on the right track. Add the command that starts the game as well. You're probably better off creating a new dosbox.conf for every game, since the [autoexec] section probably varies for each one. Don't forget to use quotes around file names with spaces in your mount command.
Re: Creating a shortcut
Posted on 2007-04-19, 09:50
It still has nothing to do with the intentions of the original poster, nor does it have anything to do with MS-DOS (except for the "dir" and "cd" commands, that exist not just in the fictional operating system described, but also in DOS).
Re: problem: parameters in batch file
Posted on 2007-04-19, 09:46
Shouldn't it be %1% anyways? Or does my memory fail me there?
Re: Creating a shortcut
Posted on 2007-04-18, 21:51
Am I the only one who has a big "WTF?" floating above his head right now?
Re: stupidity
Posted on 2007-04-11, 18:48
It may be a Linux distro with a DOS launcher. It's possible to bootstrap Linux from a DOS session, but then Linux removes DOS completely from the memory. Loadlin used ot be the standard way to boot linux in ancient times, when people didn't want to mess with their partition setup. As has been …
Re: stupidity
Posted on 2007-04-05, 10:02
And it is not a DOS Linux. It is plain Linux, like any other Linux out there, just stripped down to fit into little memory.
Re: Developing games FOR dosbox?
Posted on 2007-04-04, 18:26
Well, LGPL is actually a quite nice license, since it even allows you to do commercial development with it, as long as you link to it dynamically (i.e., using a DLL). By the way, you should always, always, always give your source away, unless you want to sell software. Sooner or later someone will …
Re: Jaw drops to floor....speechless......
Posted on 2007-04-01, 18:24
And well Java being faster then a compiled program, naa... can't be or ... can it? Yes it can. Sun's HotSpot just-in-time-compiler is pretty smart and can do what no C compiler can ever achieve: recompile code parts optimized for the current data being processed. It's similar to profile-guided …
Re: Developing games FOR dosbox?
Posted on 2007-04-01, 18:14
I second that. Having used SDL in a variety of setups (including commercial apps thanks to the LGPL and dynamic linking), I think it is really great for anything that should be portable and doesn't need GUI widgets (i.e., that draws it's output itself). A bit minimal at times, but that's also an …
Re: Feature Requests: Floppy Disk Swap support and keep File Date stamps
Posted on 2007-04-01, 18:11
How so? DOS didn't have the concept of time zones, so it was in a way running in the user's preferred time zone. The equivalent in linux would be what localtime() returns, and using that information, you can create valid GMT timestamps with mktime(), which then displays correctly in the user's file …
Re: big performance increase
Posted on 2007-04-01, 18:05
Hey, I really dislike this slow-machine-bashing. After all, 2 years ago I was running DOSBox on a 333MHz machine. Playable. Frameskip 10 was needed, sure, and I play strategy games, not action games, but nevertheless, it was a working and usable gaming setup. Many killed aliens in X-Com, treasures …
Re: 132 characters on a line
Posted on 2007-03-26, 19:39
I'm using TM.EXE to set video modes. It can set a 90-column-mode, perhaps that is of some help.
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