Re: Dosbox and midi, in and out, in Ubuntu

Posted on 2016-10-21, 10:14

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edit: every little cycle affects the stream. The farer away from the hardware it gets created, the more lags you have. I have a little device to test the stream and I was quite surprised, how laggy my dedicated Audio PC with Win7 is. (not hear-, but feelable if you compare it) We use an Atari ST …

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Re: Dosbox and midi, in and out, in Ubuntu

Posted on 2016-10-21, 09:52

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I couldnt find any evidence, that it is working, allthough there were plans, to implement it. I read in a thread somewhere on this forum, that there was something going on with MIDI input in version .072. Midi was connected to the Game Port, just like joysticks, and the gameport is emulated...I …

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Re: DosBox with old hardware - closer to the real thing?

Posted on 2016-10-21, 09:40

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PC speakers have always been super-cheap, but those original PC speakers in PC/XT/AT systems were barely any worse than the amplified Labtec speakers that were distributed with cheap multimedia kits. Many cheap computers came with 2" non-amplified speakers. The fun thing was that I've never seen a …

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Re: DosBox with old hardware - closer to the real thing?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 17:48

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Ok, I get it, the card wouldnt use the synth at all but would play the music as a sample. So the only difference you might hear between sound cards is the D/A converter. Nonetheless I am going to use it, so I can use it with the FreeDos boot option. Just read about the raw midi capture option in …

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Re: DosBox with old hardware - closer to the real thing?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 16:06

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No, it wouldn't make sense, except perhaps hooking up a CRT. [...] Done. Honestly, this blew me away right now. How could I play this games on my new monitor? The difference is ... "difference" doesn't describe it. I had the same issue, on my Arcade machine, tried all sorts of graphic cards, …

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Re: DosBox with old hardware - closer to the real thing?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 15:22

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@Dominus Thanks for the answer, I was expecting this a bit, at least with graphic cards, as they for sure can't handle the needs of a new OS. I realized it right after posting... I will still try to install a SB16, I think there exist adapters for ISA/PCI. Even if its emulated, I guess you can't get …

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DosBox with old hardware - closer to the real thing?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 13:31

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Hey Vogons!! I see many threads here with discussions, how to make the DosBox experience more genuine on new hardware. How to blur the pixels, aspect ratios, one guy even wrote about the "reverb" of the PC speaker in the computer housing :-) Would it make sense, to build a computer with original …

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Re: Creating a BATCH Files for DosBox Using Strings 2.5

Posted on 2016-10-19, 13:24

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Just found the solution for that. Nothing is impossible. I let the menu load in Dosbox shell, and from the menu, if I need variables, I load the batches via C:\freedos\command /c test.bat That was too easy. Dosbox rulez 😀

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Re: Creating a BATCH Files for DosBox Using Strings 2.5

Posted on 2016-10-18, 22:34

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I don't know the exact reason, why the thread starter needs it, but for my project, where I am using the Strings 2.5 as well, I am trying the following: - Run a game out of a menu (works in 90% of the cases) - If the game needs a different setting, I am saving the current setting first: config -get …

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Re: Creating a BATCH Files for DosBox Using Strings 2.5

Posted on 2016-10-18, 17:43

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Hey Jorpho! I came across this, because I set up an old school DOS gaming machine for me and my friends, and it is Menu based, like it used to be in the old days. For the feeling and for easy access. Everything works very fine, except for launching batch files. I am just wondering, if this is …

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Re: Creating a BATCH Files for DosBox Using Strings 2.5

Posted on 2016-10-18, 17:17

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edit4: i tripple checked, and the difference (DB/4D) is as follows: if you start your game directly out of the shell, it works with the dosbox command.com. [...] BUT if you start your game via a menu, or norton commander, the vars are passed to the top level shell, not to the actual one. That means …

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Re: Creating a BATCH Files for DosBox Using Strings 2.5

Posted on 2016-10-18, 00:18

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Hello Jason! I am having a project with lots of Batch stuff going on as well (i continued now after a couple of months), and I got told by QBix iirc, that set /p didnt work in the old DOS, it came later with some Windows Version. I guess, thats why it is not supported in Dosbox. So I tried many …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-07, 13:20

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I tried FreeDos now, looks pretty nice as well! Same problems with memory settings, but I will now start to learn about SVNs and how to install custom updates. config -writeconf -r looks quite interesting for example (saves state and makes restart) That would allow to make "dangerous" changes to the …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-06, 12:55

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That ASET and XSET are that functions or small programs ? These are tiny Batch utilities, I tried ASET, VARSET, XSET, SETENV and some more, there must be thousands of them out there. Basically all shareware from the early 90s. .COM and .EXE files from 10k to 100k. Effects of them were all the same, …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-06, 04:14

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At least the settings changings I tried worked so far - but you are right, you don't have to mess around THAT much - actually its only Ultima 7 in my collection thats a bit picky so far...the rest really works out of the box. But you can always enhance a bit. Or at least try to :-) But what I read …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-06, 03:07

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What I found out after hours of try and error: It seems like all these tiny helper programs (I tried some, ASET, XSET and ten others) work - somehow - in the DosBox shell. But the vars are always passed to the ----excuse my french----top level shell or how you call it. Run inside a program, they are …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-05, 17:49

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And here is the last question, and the answer will decide if I actually go on with what I am doing, or not. Not would be not great, as I allready spent a lot of time to make this work. Anyways: I am using an old shareware menu program called G-Menu for my whacky frontend, I use it to launch all the …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-05, 16:31

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Hey Qbix! Yes, but it took me a while to find that out. I thougt I just wrote it wrong. Honestly, it has been 22 years since I did Batch stuff for the last time. And all I remember is the massive Boot menus I had to write. ... The recent project I made was an Arcade Machine in DOS 7.1, with a lot of …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-05, 15:50

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Cheers Vogons! About 4DOS.COM: I don't know, if I made something wrong, I used 4DOS.COM via SET COMSPEC=C:\4DOS.COM It worked, but it seemed quite slow! Also, like I mentioned above, I'd prefer to use DB "as is", with its internal command.com, if it works somehow, so you can basically copy and mount …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-03, 16:41

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Thanks very much!

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