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Re: Disk hungry app needs more than 4GB free disk space

Posted on 2008-02-18, 19:33

in Windows

with the command I posted I had 1.2 TB free when doing dir inside dosbox. It's hard to guess how the application checks for freespace or what is wrong with it.

Re: Programme can't write to disc drive

Posted on 2008-02-18, 19:30

by Qbix

in DOSBox Games/Apps

can you attach that sbfmdrv ? as mount > a works 100 % of the time at my place. So maybe the application has some influence on it

Re: Fade To Black CD rom speed problem

Posted on 2008-02-18, 19:29

by Qbix

in DOSBox Games/Apps

well the cdrom in dosbox is actually too fast 😉 we are working on faking it to be slower currently

Re: Disk hungry app needs more than 4GB free disk space

Posted on 2008-02-18, 16:06

by Qbix

in Windows

try this: Copy code to clipboard 1 mount c c:\ -size 512,127,65533,65533 The readme has the exact meaning of these parameters somewhere

Re: A new MacOS DOSBox launcher

Posted on 2008-02-18, 12:18

by Qbix

in DOSBox General

it is the appropriate forum. I'm just informing you that we aren't responsible for all choices made. The .conf at the end is not a problem. I don't know if it is really the mac was of doing things though. surface ending up in empty screenshots. I fail to see how this is a problem of dosbox. I would …

Re: problem with serial port

Posted on 2008-02-18, 08:52

by Qbix

in DOSBox General

http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/ try a build from that page

Re: Hunter's Law, Game thinks I am cheating

Posted on 2008-02-18, 08:01

by Qbix

in DOSBox Games/Apps

try running an other application before the game first. (does the game have a setup or so you can run before)

Re: Master of Magic: Cache block overrun

Posted on 2008-02-18, 07:59

by Qbix

in DOSBox Games/Apps

if it is possible try to get a hold of 0.72 It has several fixes and I think it has some improvements for the cache handling as well. (problem is that the generated opcodes for 64 bit mode are in general longer then for the 32 bit mode. so the caches are stressed a lot more in 64 bit mode)

Re: Programme can't write to disc drive

Posted on 2008-02-18, 07:57

by Qbix

in DOSBox Games/Apps

you are running the game from a writable directory ? > and < seems to work for at least the cases I tried. sbfmdrv > sbport.dat did you try this yourself as well ? (acting like the program ?) if you run the debugger version of dosbox (see development forum) you should be able to see if the …

Re: DOS 5.0

Posted on 2008-02-18, 07:50

by Qbix

in DOSBox General

most application don't care much for the version number. if it's higher (or equal) then 3 they are usually happy (as you then have the new file support functions). higher versions of dos didn't add that much special for games.

Re: A new MacOS DOSBox launcher

Posted on 2008-02-18, 07:47

by Qbix

in DOSBox General

We don't own a Mac ourselves, so the contents of DOSBox.app package are handled by the one who makes the packages for dosbox on release time. (currently rhoenie). The preferences file is user submitted (the name). Do you recommended a different name for it ? With screenshots failing I presume you …

Re: Doxbox and D-Fend?

Posted on 2008-02-17, 08:03

by Qbix

in DOSBox General

try dfendreloaded. (check the dosbox general part of this forum, which is where I will move this thread as well)

Re: Run multiple dos programs as a batch file in DOSBOX

Posted on 2008-02-17, 06:27

by Qbix

in DOSBox General

create a directory oldgames on c:\ copy c:\max inside that. futher copy the batchfile into oldgames as well (let's call it hello.bat) now open dosbox.conf and enter at the bottom (under [autoexec]) Copy code to clipboard 1 mount c c:\oldgames 2 c: 3 call hello.bat 4 exit