Re: Getting DOSbox to work on windows 98 second edition...
Posted on 2005-01-10, 16:16
Is DX9 supported under Win98/SE? I thought MS stopped supporting Win98 before DX9 came out...
Re: DOSBox front end and game auditing idea.
Posted on 2005-01-05, 20:09
Storing DOS games as single files has been discussed before, but I think it's problematic in many ways. Console and arcade ROMs are designed as black boxes to the user anyway, so it makes sense to just bundle up all the data into one read-only file. With a PC game, you've got a bunch of files …
Re: SourceForge.net project ("Munt")
Posted on 2005-01-05, 19:46
The one I just built (which works fine with ScummVM 0.7.0) is exactly 65,536 bytes. If you're suspicious your file might be different, attach it and I'll do a FC.
Re: Getting that authentic DOS midi sound with modern hardware
Posted on 2005-01-03, 15:23
The format for Doom engine games (Doom1/2, Heretic, Hexen) is called MUS. There are MUS -> MIDI converters out there, but yeah none of the OPL playback information gets preserved.
Re: CPU speeds / game performance list?
Posted on 2004-12-28, 16:06
I have an AMD FX-53 system w/ 2.4 ghz and I run my games with 34000 cycles. Practically everything I want will run great! Though...I need to use a frontend to lower cycles for sierra games that will run too fast with those cycles. So what's the most recent (year-wise) or most demanding game you can …
CPU speeds / game performance list?
Posted on 2004-12-20, 18:20
There seem to be a lot of threads on the DOSBox forums about performance... which games run at acceptable speeds, which require at least a certain number of cycles / frameskip, etc. I realize these factors are going to be subjective depending on machine configurations, as well as personal preference …
Re: Getting that authentic DOS midi sound with modern hardware
Posted on 2004-12-20, 15:21
So if an OPL2 soundfont or anything close existed, people could enjoy near perfect adlib sound. See, this just isn't the case. If you've ever created or edited music for a chip like the OPL2, there are considerable differences between the way the music is stored and played back in MIDI versus …
Re: Getting sound w/ Starflight and DosBox .63
Posted on 2004-12-18, 21:54
There are no versions of Starflight (1 or 2) for PC that I know of that use anything other than internal speaker sound. The only music I know of is the title screen tune from the first game.
Re: Getting that authentic DOS midi sound with modern hardware
Posted on 2004-12-18, 21:50
Unfortunately, it's probably not possible to get a good reproduction of the sound that way. That's true, accurate reproduction wasn't what I had in mind really, just an Adlib-flavored way to play MIDIs in a modern Windows situation. Of course, if playing MIDIs is all you need, you could just find a …
Re: Getting that authentic DOS midi sound with modern hardware
Posted on 2004-12-17, 20:11
I wonder if it would be possible to write a MIDI driver for Windows / Linux etc, kind of like Canadacow et al's MT-32 driver, that used Adlib FM synthesis? You could play regular MID files and hear them as they played on an old machine (running Windows 3.1 or some such)! The difference between FM …
Re: X-Wing (machine speed question)
Posted on 2004-12-15, 17:15
Good to hear you got it working!
Re: machine speed question
Posted on 2004-12-10, 20:04
So when you set the machine speed back to SLOW, the digitized speech comes back on? Or is it off permanently now? This is a no-brainer, but make sure that digitized sound is turned on in all the in-game menus (hit ESC), and that the volume is turned up. If you need to reinstall the game, just back …
Re: Millenia: Altered Destinies - Take 2 Interactive
Posted on 2004-12-09, 18:03
Hmm, good to know. How many different versions of the game are floating around out there? The version I'm using is an ISO ripped from the original game CD, which has long since gone on to Physical Media Heaven. The volume label I'm using in DOSBox is MILLENIA101, the same label the CD had. I'm …
Re: machine speed question
Posted on 2004-12-09, 17:59
I think the point of confusion here is that, in DOSBox terms, frame rate (number of times per second the screen is updated) is not the same thing as "performance", which affects control response time, smoothness of sound, etc. You can increase frame skip, slightly, to make the screen update less …
Re: reelmagic support
Posted on 2004-12-09, 17:47
An incomplete listing of supported games from this page : Dragon's Lair, Escape From Singe's Castle The Horde Lord of the Rings Return to Zork Space Ace Demo of Flash Traffic(?) So with supported games, what was different VS if you didn't have this hardware? Would you get fullscreen FMV playback …
Re: machine speed question
Posted on 2004-12-08, 18:27
Just curious, does anyone have a machine fast enough to play Syndicate Wars at full speed (normal VGA or (gasp!) SVGA)? If so, what are the specs? I've sort of assumed that I won't get to play those games for another 5 years or so 😀
Re: Millenia: Altered Destinies - Take 2 Interactive
Posted on 2004-12-08, 17:55
I still haven't been able to get Millenia to properly detect the CD-ROM. I feel like I've tried every possible permutation of MOUNT settings. The label is correct, the drive letter is the same that the game was installed from... I give up.
Re: reelmagic support
Posted on 2004-12-08, 16:52
Wow, I'd never heard of this thing before. http://www.imaa.de/www/mpe8419.htm So it's basically an MPEG decoder card with sound card functionality?
Re: machine speed question
Posted on 2004-12-08, 16:44
The X-Wing install program is just making a poor guess as to what your machine's clock speed is, don't worry about it. You can change it manually any time. Raising the frameskip doesn't decrease performance, if you're talking about CPU usage etc it actually improves it because DOSBox has to render …
Re: Quest for Glory II - Trial by Fire
Posted on 2004-11-13, 14:38
it gives me the error that it cannot find the video driver This is a wild guess, but could you post a listing of all the files in your QFG2 directory? I have a copy that works in DOSBox, so I'll compare your version with mine. My theory (very tenuous) is that it can't load the video driver because …
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