Re: DOSBox 0.72 CVS crash when running Darklands
Posted on 2007-11-11, 03:48
update 2: in the modes that it doesn't crash, I don't hear digitized sounds if the Roland patch is installed. I did hear it without though. Bah.
Attn ykhwong: DOSBox 0.72 CVS crash when running Darklands
Posted on 2007-11-11, 01:02
Hey guys, long time no see. I haven't played with DOSBox for a while and I got the itch again, so I pulled out my MT-32 and SC-88 (packed away since I moved a few months ago) and hooked them back up, and picked up ykhwong's DOSBox 0.72 (10/19/2007) CVS build for win32 (I'm running WinXP Pro). …
Re: Pc speaker and sound blaster 16 bug
Posted on 2007-08-30, 19:53
Nooo, been waiting for years for them to get around to looking at the OPL-as-DAC issue and you distracted them 😜 hehe
Re: Pc speaker and sound blaster 16 bug
Posted on 2007-08-29, 22:17
Actually this is a long-standing issue. I believe what is happening is that the games are trying to use the OPL synthesizer chip as a 1-bit DAC similar to the PC Speaker. However, this is very timing intensive and DOSBox does not handle it accurately enough. It works for PC Speaker because DOSBox …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-06, 19:47
Hey guys, haven't been around in quite a while (still sucked into World of Warcraft and whatnot) but I just heard about this on Slashdot. Looks like an example of bad form on the part of whoever packaged DOSBox as a Steam app; they could have given the DOSBox community a heads-up and had some good …
Re: No DirectSound3D for Vista
Posted on 2006-11-22, 18:33
Dang, Creative has had OPENAL support for a long time now. WTF are these other sound card companies doing? (I guess being lazy.) Actually, Creative is being extremely sluggish (as usual) in implementing Vista drivers as well. By contrast, a lot of the other companies like Realtek are marching along …
Re: No DirectSound3D for Vista
Posted on 2006-11-22, 17:27
Hmm... On the subject of games designed for Vista, it looks like Creative is trying to push OpenAL on game developers as the new API that will give them a path to EAX. Bummer :( The sound card I linked does not yet have OpenAL acceleration either, but Auzentech is supposedly pushing C-Media to add …
Re: No DirectSound3D for Vista
Posted on 2006-11-22, 16:49
Personally I think it's great that Microsoft is breaking Creative's one last hold on the gaming sound market because Creative is a terrible company. Creative has been stifling innovation in the sound card market for over 10 years buy buying out or suing into the ground all of their competitors, and …
Re: config.sys
Posted on 2006-06-10, 00:05
What is the error message? You could try making a dummy config.sys file with FILES=40 in it and see if that makes the program happy.
Re: Dosbox with Gilde2x.ovl
Posted on 2006-06-09, 16:17
And doing software emulation would be a lot slower (and uglier) of course. Well, ideally if you are emulating the hardware it should look just like the real thing. I agree though that it's just not feasible right now to do full emulation, and you can sometimes get better results from a wrapper than …
Re: Getting Dark Forces to run on XP
Posted on 2006-06-08, 22:12
It sounds like you purchased a copy of the Mac version. Will will either need an actual Apple computer, or a Mac emulator.
Re: Im simply confused
Posted on 2006-06-07, 18:05
I guess it's the mounting I have trouble with, especially since I'm using mac...but I assume u all are. You're kidding, right? Most of us are using Windows, and some use Linux. Only a few use Mac, which is why the documentation for it is a bit light.
Re: Just sound without a picture
Posted on 2006-06-03, 16:11
I would recommend mounting D: as C and E: as D, as this is the way some DOS games expect it. Then, reinstall the game from the CD within DOSBox using those mount settings so it knows where to find the CD. Hopefully it should work.
Re: Ok a serious suggestion
Posted on 2006-06-03, 15:46
Mounting as implemented is needed because the directory structure of a modern PC is not conducive to running old games. For example, I run my old games from subdirectories of d:\oldgames, but a lot of old DOS games must be run from the C: drive. Also, long filenames are not supported by DOS games …
Re: so in your extraordinarly long readme did you actally exain how to play games ?
Posted on 2006-06-03, 15:40
DOSBox is a DOS emulator for playing games. Just like with a C64 or Amiga emulator, it is expected that you know (through past experience or recent research) at least a bit of how to use the operating system bundled with those systems. If you don't have that knowledge and are unwilling to research …
Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours
Posted on 2006-06-02, 23:31
So you saw this? Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide Haven't tried it myself.
Re: Identifying broken dynamic opcodes; looking for more games that don't work with dynamic core.
Posted on 2006-06-02, 15:45
Daggerfall's texture mapping is weird in dynamic core, and performance is lower. Running in normal core yields correct texture mapping and better speed. I seem to remember Sorcerian having issues with menu responsiveness and slow music in dynamic core as well, but I haven't tried it in 0.65 or …
Re: Capturing midi (CTRL-ALT-F8) problem with SHLOH (Legend)
Posted on 2006-06-01, 23:38
Is it possible that you started the capture after starting the game? If so, it's possible that it didn't capture some SysEx data that is needed to reprogram that MT-32 sounds.
Re: Activision Carts & PC Jr = "Screen Jitters"
Posted on 2006-06-01, 21:21
Just out of curiosity, have you verified that the jittering does not occur in non-PCjr games running in non-PCjr mode in DOSBox on your system? Maybe either you or wd could post your dosbox.conf and compare it to the other's to see what's different that could affect things.
Re: Daggerfall
Posted on 2006-06-01, 20:10
It's not a buggy patch that caused the backwards/strafing issues, it's a timing problem with Daggerfall 2.13 in general. Back in the days of Win9x, I upgraded from a 120MHz 486 to a 450MHz Pentium II and was no longer able to play Daggerfall because of that exact issue (except with the use of some …
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