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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2019-09-08, 16:22

Well said, and I agree; your integrity shows in your content! Regarding recommended settings, I'm only mentioning this so authors can give you a heads up as to any other "big levers" to mention or test in your next video, like was mentioned in this comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2019-09-08, 01:34

The thing is, Youtube's a very powerful tool, and as a showrunner, you bear the responsibility of having an opinion that many younger fans would find and treat as the authority. I've had situations where my first-hand experiences were disputed by someone parroting misinformation from a DFRetro …

Re: VIDEO Patch for pixel-perfect scaling (SDL1)

Posted on 2019-09-04, 14:43

My understanding from Ant's explanation is that openglnb applies the same 'duplicate every Nth line' distortion across both axis to maintain correct aspect ratio. nb stands for nearest-neighbor. In the general case, it is not the duplication of every n th row or column. For example, in order to …

Re: VIDEO Patch for pixel-perfect scaling (SDL1)

Posted on 2019-09-04, 09:45

That's what openglnb output does. My understanding from Ant's explanation is that openglnb applies the same 'duplicate every Nth line' distortion across both axis to maintain correct aspect ratio. From Ant: Setting aspect to true causes DOSBox to compensate for a non-square original aspect ratio by …

Re: VIDEO Patch for pixel-perfect scaling (SDL1)

Posted on 2019-09-03, 23:19

Please don't stop. I will try... Given whole-integer scaling is straight forward, more accurate on modern high-DPI displays (versus the existing double-every Nth line method), can be implemented along side the current scaling methods without influence on their performance or function, and doesn't …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2019-09-03, 03:07

... If eXo has tested the games with the latest official version of DOSBox and SVN and there is a bug and not a game hack/rip issue and not a personal preference or some patch that isn't compatible with all supported operating systems then it should be submitted to the DOSBox Sourceforge site. …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2019-09-03, 02:30

On the topic of code differences needed to properly support various games, an archival release (that happens to rhyme with Ultima III's name) comprised of pre-configured DOS-only games has been revised to version four. Previously this came as five separated genre packs, however now it's been …

Re: DOSBox in fullscreen disables second monitor

Posted on 2019-09-03, 02:07

It's a problem of SDL 1.2. Here is to hoping that the devs switch to SDL2 soon Indeed, 1.2 doesn't handle multiple displays without kludges; alas: https://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?p=31144 Incase the link or forum goes down, here's a copy for future-reference: Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:18 pm …

Re: Dosbox dropping pressed keys?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 19:56

DosFreak - nice coverage across xorg versions. Does building Aaronp's test code reveal anything? (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66491&p=780820#p760567) especially with your left-ctrl held -- he and I both saw repeated "key-release" reported, despite it being held. Non-modifer keys seem …

Re: Dosbox dropping pressed keys?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 15:55

Reproduced using Aaronp's test code on Ubuntu 19.04 x86_64 with distro-provided binaries of SDL (1.2.15+dfsg2-4) and X-Org (1.20.4-1ubuntu3). Hardware: i6700k using a USB mechanical-switch DAS keyboard (K3 Pro). Pressed and held left-ctrl for 15 seconds then released, followed by holding up-arrow …

Re: Dosbox dropping pressed keys?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 00:12

Lol, yeah... back when I ran gentoo this type of thing was a bit easier because you could flip versions of packages and their dependencies one by one, and you had a hope of isolating issues to a specific dependency. Definitely harder on these binary distros built with the kitchen sink of …

Re: Dosbox dropping pressed keys?

Posted on 2019-08-28, 23:21

X.org version: 1.19.6 I think it was confirmed on post-1.19.x versions of xorg; so this is good you've confirmed 1.19.x and below is unaffected. I was also on 18.04 and couldn't reproduce it, but have since moved to Ubuntu 19.04 and, although I've only recently tried a couple games, I now recall …

Re: Nice scaling of Discworld II?

Posted on 2019-08-22, 15:34

root42 wrote: I think this looks rather nice. I agree. Andy, would you be able to post some comparison captures of the lower res sources that you mentioned (320x200/240) scaled up using your preferred CRT shaders versus the baseline DOSBox? Thank you!

Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-08-08, 05:59

(snip) ... retro games were played on screens that had a natural smoothing effect (gaussian blur) with the phosphor grid further hiding some of the pixel aliasing. I'm in full agreement; but just wanted to reminisce: back in the late 80s a childhood friend had his NES hooked up to a very high end …

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