Re: Is virtualization about to get easier? Massively more efficient?
Posted on 2005-08-16, 16:08
Oh my god, a K6. How much do you want me to pay you to take it out back, pour gasoline on it, and give it a fiery death?
Re: Lemmings Chronicles
Posted on 2005-08-16, 16:07
It depends on what the game expects. Most games with audio tracks have the game data on track 1 (ISO 9660 filesystem) and then audio tracks for track 2 and up.
Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking
Posted on 2005-08-16, 16:05
Sounds like they were probably using an obscure feature of the EGA hardware that DOSBox doesn't currently know about. I forgot about those two games 😀
Re: Is virtualization about to get easier? Massively more efficient?
Posted on 2005-08-16, 15:40
I know you've been championing QEMU+DOSBox, but is anyone actually interested in doing the development for this? Just curious. Also, did you notice if your CPU usage was different between QEMU and DOSBox when you were testing them with Doom? It may be significant if QEMU is giving the same …
Re: Is virtualization about to get easier? Massively more efficient?
Posted on 2005-08-16, 15:04
Yes, I said XP as that's what I have :) I think my video card is the bottleneck in my current system (Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB AGP). I'd like to get something of the current generation, but it looks like it will be best to wait until I make my next system so I can use PCI-Express. About forking DOSBox …
Re: Is virtualization about to get easier? Massively more efficient?
Posted on 2005-08-16, 14:42
Virtualization: This has so far been unattractive to the DOSBox developers because DOSBox aims to be a cross-platform emulator, and adding virtualization would cause some combination of inconsistent performance & features and additional headaches due to extra code to maintain. It's true that the …
Re: Superstardust '96 problems
Posted on 2005-08-16, 14:32
How fast is your system? Are you using the dynamic core? Try a CVS build (check the development forum for info).
Re: no full screen with 9800pro
Posted on 2005-08-16, 14:31
Try playing with the fullfixed and aspect settings in dosbox.conf. Also note that you're trying to set 4:3 aspect ratio modes on a non-4:3 monitor - 1280x1024 is not 4:3, and 1280x960 is the closest 4:3 res. This is one reason I've been avoiding LCD monitors, and the reason why many people who do …
Re: Hyperblade and Warhammer Dark Omen
Posted on 2005-08-16, 14:13
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/hyperblade http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/warhammer-dark-omen According to MobyGames, Hyperblade is a Windows 95 game (even the CD says Windows 95). Looks like the same deal for the Warhammer game (except that it's also available for PlayStation 1). …
Re: Strange SHELL: issue when running XCOM: Apoc
Posted on 2005-08-15, 21:45
Correct, VDMSound is not for DOSBox but rather only for running games in a DOS command prompt window in Windows. If you're having sound problems, you may need to turn up or turn down your cycles in DOSBox. You may also need to make sure that the game is configured properly to use the virtual sound …
Re: snapshot like in vmware
Posted on 2005-08-15, 21:05
About the "pixelated goodness": Part of my problem with that (especially in regards to emulating console games) is that my 21" CRT is much better quality than the display devices used when the games were new, so playing without a filter can in my opinion be a worse experience than would be playing …
Re: snapshot like in vmware
Posted on 2005-08-15, 20:14
For me, part of the fun of using emulators is to have an enhanced experience. This may be due to graphic filters/scalers, support for modern controllers, state saving, and often straight-up cheating features. Mostly I use state saving for convenience - allowing me to simulate a straight play-through …
Re: snapshot like in vmware
Posted on 2005-08-15, 19:46
State saving is great in console emulators because many old games didn't have a save/continue feature but were very long and/or difficult to beat. It's also nice to be able to save at any point during gameplay instead of just at save points or when you die or whatever. In the case of DOSBox, I'm not …
Re: Wing Commander 3 Save Directory?
Posted on 2005-08-15, 17:19
Without more info, there could be many possibilities, including: - Save directory is read-only - DOSBox version is too old and may have problems creating new files/directories - You may be trying to save to a CD or other read-only filesystem - Your mount setup may be weird - Who knows...
Re: Blackthorne in DOSBox
Posted on 2005-08-15, 17:18
* Split topic and put it in the proper forum *
Re: Patch for Tseng SVGA support is available in SourceForge
Posted on 2005-08-15, 16:59
I'm not really a DOSBox dev (official or otherwise), but I agree with mirek and Dominus. I guess it would partly depend on how open Qbix would be to integrating vasyl's SVGA support into the official DOSBox CVS source in the near future, due to the problems vasyl described with integrating into …
Re: Question for Fallout under Win XP 64Bit
Posted on 2005-08-15, 16:54
If you're running the game at 640x480 and the video is 432x320, then the video is only going to take up 67.5% of the width of the screen and 50% of the height. Well, unless it stretches the video, but I'm guessing that would take too much processing power for games of that era. Now that you mention …
Re: LOAD ERROR: no DPMI get csdmi*b.zip
Posted on 2005-08-15, 16:48
* Merged related topics - please avoid cross-posting *
Re: Wing Commander 3 Save Directory?
Posted on 2005-08-15, 03:51
What version of DOSBox?
Re: Status of the latest Dosbox with MT-32?
Posted on 2005-08-15, 00:21
Munt grew out of canadacow's emulator. Canadacow has joined forces with KingGuppy to make Munt, so canadacow's original code is no longer being developed on its own.
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