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Re: No music in video captures

Posted on 2006-10-16, 17:57

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox General

Maybe the game can be configured do do FM synth instead of midi?

Re: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs - system timer 2 error

Posted on 2006-10-15, 00:21

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

You can try this but I doubt it... http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/dosbox_files/dosbox_async.zip (it handles file I/O in an extra thread. While that thread blocks emulation continues which means no/less sound stuttering when loading or while the cdrom drive spins up. Cursor will continue blinking …

Re: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs - system timer 2 error

Posted on 2006-10-14, 17:34

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

> Processor: VERY GOOD > 2000 cycles I guess they didn't expect a 6MHz 486 😁 I had hoped the timer fix for Miglia would help but doesn't then... What if you increase the cycles after passing the point where the error message would appear?

Re: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs - system timer 2 error

Posted on 2006-10-14, 14:17

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Did you try a recent CVS build?

Re: Problem with COM port.

Posted on 2006-10-13, 01:22

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Somehow the interrupts are disabled too long (tested with a game that produces overrun errors).

Re: try this one: ...

Posted on 2006-10-11, 18:24

by h-a-l-9000

in DOS

It works fine in my parallel port passthrough patch.

Re: try this one: ...

Posted on 2006-10-11, 16:45

by h-a-l-9000

in DOS

Quite dangerous, the DOS app can bring down your whole system with porttalk.

Re: Pacific Strike from Origin

Posted on 2006-10-11, 11:11

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

With 3000 cycles maybe it isn't frozen but takes half an hour to load 😉

Re: IPX random ports...

Posted on 2006-10-11, 00:20

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox General

It works for other people (including me)... maybe some strange options of your router..

Re: IPX random ports...

Posted on 2006-10-10, 22:58

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox General

You only need to forward port 213 (or whichever you start your tunneling server with) on your router. There is no need for everybody to have a different port. If you are concerned about the port he *connects from*: it is chosen by the operating system and not relevant here.

Re: Problem with COM port.

Posted on 2006-10-10, 21:56

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Try cycles=10000 or more with core=dynamic

Re: Problem with COM port.

Posted on 2006-10-10, 17:20

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

try to increase cycles too.

Re: Pacific Strike from Origin

Posted on 2006-10-10, 14:22

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

wrong sound setup? Your cycles and core settings?

Re: Problem with COM port.

Posted on 2006-10-07, 18:44

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

So did you open the dosbox.conf and change the serial1=...?

Re: Problem with COM port.

Posted on 2006-10-06, 17:49

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Games/Apps

What did you try so far? And you can try the improved build on my homepage.

Re: DOSBox CMOS clock patch (dates not changing when left overnight)

Posted on 2006-10-05, 14:49

by h-a-l-9000

in DOSBox Patches

Maybe like this? (didn't test it though) Copy code to clipboard 1 static bool RtcUpdateDone () 2 { 3 while ((ReadCmosByte(0x0a) & 0x80) != 0) CALLBACK_Idle(); 4 return true; // cannot fail in DOSbox 5 }