Re: New DOS mouse driver for VirtualBox/VMware/ PS/2 mice

Posted on 2022-12-20, 09:13

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Now I am wondering how difficult it would be to nominally do mouse integration for Win9X.. that would be awesome to have! I might have to look into it if someone isn't already working on it! This already works as-is for 9x, you just have to install it manually , i.e. by loading VBMOUSE in autoexec. …

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Re: Windows 98 virtual machine installation error

Posted on 2022-12-16, 23:02

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Have you read this thread ? Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs Which CPU do you have ?

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Re: DOS virtual filesystem

Posted on 2022-12-14, 10:52

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I don't think you want a redirector, rather you really want a device driver so that DOS can mount your USB disk and handle filesystems for you. It'll be simpler than a redirector, even! Note that a device driver .sys file can be loaded at runtime using any of the popular DEVLOAD equivalents. It is …

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Re: New DOS mouse driver for VirtualBox/VMware/ PS/2 mice

Posted on 2022-12-12, 22:07

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If you wanted to check it out, the login name is guest. It is not stable it is a work in progress, but this is using your vbmouse driver. https://ipx.network/terminal Cool! Do you have a page/thread for this? I was envisioning browser-based qemu.js emulators as yet another usecase, since they …

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Re: New DOS mouse driver for VirtualBox/VMware/ PS/2 mice

Posted on 2022-12-11, 14:04

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Great project! I would never have taken on "guest tools for DOS" but I'm happy you are :-) I'm curious about your TSR for shared folders, where can I read more about that and how it works? Does it use the DOS redirection interfaces? There is an about page for the entire project with instructions -- …

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Re: New DOS mouse driver for VirtualBox/VMware/ PS/2 mice

Posted on 2022-12-10, 14:58

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Glad to hear! Only issue I have come across in my use case , when I am in Borland C++ 3.1 IDE, if I compile and run my program the machine will crash if vbmouse.exe is loaded.... even just a printf hello world will crash. Exiting the IDE and running the executable is fine, just using the RUN from …

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Re: MS-DOS games using Microsoft 98SE Wavetable Synth

Posted on 2022-11-07, 23:59

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actually its the opposite. With WDM drivers (aka sbemul.sys) , there is emulated mpu401 device which is redirected to whatever you select in the midi mapper, and there is absolutely no adlib/fm emulation (sbemul only emulates the opl timers but generates no sound). Since you mention adlib emulation …

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Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.12d)

Posted on 2022-11-05, 16:21

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Your tool to set the mixer settings in DOS would definitley be useful if you are able to release a version of it. Thank you! Oops I missed this message. I am attaching this program (exe and srcs inside .zip file) . I called it "VIAS". I was using it to diagnose my issue with very poor FM quality on …

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Re: Does DOSBox support 32-bit "unreal" mode?

Posted on 2022-10-18, 10:37

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Note that himem.sys needs "unreal" mode to work, and dosbox can boot it just fine. In fact, if I remember from some discussions on these forums, when using himem.sys dos itself spends most of the time running in unreal mode, with all descriptors having 4GB limit, since neither himem.sys nor the …

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Re: DOS + HX DOS extender + vdmsound / fully functioning DOS on non-legacy hardware can it work?

Posted on 2022-10-16, 14:21

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Daniel3D wrote on 2022-10-13, 20:50: I know, but the last device I had with a parallel port was a DOS machine.. so unfortunately not a solution in my case. The only interface connections I have, are; USB, VGA and LAN. See DOS driver for RetroWave OPL3 , which is USB.

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Re: qemu emulated hardward vs pass-through hardware on DOS/Windows 98 VM machines?

Posted on 2022-10-11, 21:51

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Remember it's going to be a PCI Sound Blaster 16, which already doesn't have stellar compatibility with DOS games, and no OPL chip, so it's probably not worth the effort. At least you don't have to worry about passing through the "classic" ISA SB16 IO ranges (22xh, DMA channels, IRQ) because, at …

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Re: Windows 11 22H2 has been released

Posted on 2022-10-11, 11:57

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Used their own memory diagnostic program and it accused my hardware for being bad. Then I used memtest86 and after running it overnight the result was that my memory was fine. Well that is strange. Isn't their memory diagnostic program run at boot time? It should not be affected by any drivers or …

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Re: New DOS mouse driver for VirtualBox/VMware/ PS/2 mice

Posted on 2022-10-08, 12:20

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I just installed MSDOS on VirtualBox with so that I can run my old TangoPCB Series II+ on my Win10 machine. I installed your VBMOUSE and got it working (I only had to turn the integration off). However since the highest resolution driver I can use is VESA1024 I find that the Mouse resolution is way …

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Re: VMusic - OPL3, EMU8K and MPU-401 for VirtualBox (Linux hosts only)

Posted on 2022-09-04, 15:22

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javispedro1 have you thought about emulating the PC speaker too? it seems to be complicated, since the PC speaker is already "emulated" (i.e. ignored) by virtualbox and is intertwined with the PIT which I don't want to replace.. However I found that VirtualBox on Linux can already passthru the …

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Re: SSD fun with Windows XP

Posted on 2022-09-01, 09:59

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I am not familiar with nLite but can't you just pick _all_ "controllers"? They all refer to the same binary so it's not going to use any more space on your image. Still this is not related to SSDs, it is all about SATA controller. It would be the same for a rotating disk plugged in to a SATA port. …

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Re: DOS virtual filesystem

Posted on 2022-08-22, 23:38

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My first idea was to write a "small" TSR program that just wrapped the DOS IO API functions. The problem with this is that the API is quite big and the concept of default devices makes it more complicated. I then considered using the network and create some kind of network share and having a built …

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Re: VMusic - OPL3, EMU8K and MPU-401 for VirtualBox (Linux hosts only)

Posted on 2022-08-21, 16:52

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I've tested the extpack in Linux and its working good, good job dude. I test one DOS/4GW game with Miles Sound and it occasionally a note missing in OPL3. but it doesn't hurt. I read your post in the vbox forum, https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=105144 I don't know much about the …

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Re: VMusic - OPL3, EMU8K and MPU-401 for VirtualBox (Linux hosts only)

Posted on 2022-08-21, 16:49

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Ah, that's unfortunate. One thing I was working on back then was a Docker project to ease and hopefully automate the building of extension packs using the VirtualBox code base . I haven't worked on it in years, but I could dust it off, if it would be useful to you. It might be possible to use it as …

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Re: VMusic - OPL3, EMU8K and MPU-401 for VirtualBox (Linux hosts only)

Posted on 2022-08-03, 13:56

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@javispedro1 DUDE, how did you pull this off? Years ago I wanted to start a similar project, but I got lost just trying to figure out how to build an extension pack as a stand-alone project, without having to check out the entire huge VirtualBox code base. I remember hardly finding any information …

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Re: VMusic - OPL3, EMU8K and MPU-401 for VirtualBox (Linux hosts only)

Posted on 2022-07-14, 17:25

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Good! I was dreaming this years ago, and finally! VBox 6.1.34 failed to install the ext package, saying "VMusicMain" not found. I'd try the older version. OK I finally noticed that it only works for Linux host. aaah! my dreams! :D Yes, Linux only :) . (For the record I'm using 6.1.34 myself, and …

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