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Re: Resolution problem

Posted on 2012-06-06, 19:02

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I use: fullscreen=true fulldouble=true fullresolution=0x0 windowresolution=original output=opengl aspect=true scaler=none This will cause OpenGL to stretch the game to the native resolution of your monitor, with aspect correction. Stay away from the scalers if you want to stretch to your full screen …

Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-06, 18:59

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Also, what are you using for a synthesizer? The built-in Windows one? BASSMIDIDRV? A real hardware synthesizer? DOSBox does not have a built-in synthesizer, except that some unofficial builds have an MT-32 emulator built-in.

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 18:57

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Obviously you would have to keep a machine=cga that defaults to whatever is the closest to the current official release behavior, but it would be considered deprecated. I'm certainly fine with VileRancour's approach (in fact I would probably prefer it myself), but I thought I'd throw out a more …

Re: OPL3 implementations (ESFM, Crystal FM, dual OPL3 etc)

Posted on 2012-06-06, 18:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the X-Wing and/or Tie Fighter CD versions may have been (re)mixed for General MIDI rather than MT-32. While they still had MT-32 support, it may have been by way of trying to map GM instruments onto the MT-32 patch set (or a lame GM-ish custom patch set).

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 18:36

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Is there a reason that we couldn't have machine= settings like cgargb, cgaold, cganew, pcjr, tandy? Or maybe have a single keybind (and Z:\ command or environment variable) that does the following: - switches between rgb and composite for non-CGA machine modes and - cycles among rgb, cgaold and …

Re: OPL3 implementations (ESFM, Crystal FM, dual OPL3 etc)

Posted on 2012-06-06, 05:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

X-Com seems to be a MicroProse game that follows the more common "composed for MT-32, adapted for OPL" pattern.

Re: Games you were impressed by graphically when they came out

Posted on 2012-06-05, 15:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

I never tried to play UU until much later, when it was no longer so impressive. I've never played Magic Carpet, period, but I'm well aware of it. Part of the problem was that I was stuck with an 8MHz 286 until I finally scrounged a 386DX-33 around 1992 that allowed me to enter the 32-bit PC gaming …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-05, 14:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I could get a 20" 1600 x 1200 screen but they are harder to find and cost quite a bit. With such a screen 320 x 200 games display perfect pixels with no scaling issues. In theory, yes. In reality, not so much. Both my 1600x1200 TFTs still show uneven pixels in 320x200, and it's impossible to get …

Re: Masm32 apps

Posted on 2012-06-05, 14:55

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

The cputype= setting controls the behavior of the emulated CPU, not the host CPU.

Re: Games you were impressed by graphically when they came out

Posted on 2012-06-05, 14:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

SQ4 was also one of the first VGA games I played, after having to live for a year with Hercules due to my EGA monitor blowing up. TES: Arena seemed very realistic at the time compared to other games that were out. X-Wing was amazing. Doom was awesome, but I could only play it at my dad's office on …

Re: 486 help

Posted on 2012-06-05, 14:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe the 386DX-33 I had back in the day had a BIOS setup, so yeah they were doing them around that time. I do remember some machines having a setting for an alternate (Japanese?) type of floppy drive. You also didn't mention whether it's a 5.25" or 3.5" drive, or high/double/low density, and …

Re: OPL3 implementations (ESFM, Crystal FM, dual OPL3 etc)

Posted on 2012-06-05, 14:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kool, I think you hit the nail on the head. I think Hyperspeed (and probably Lightspeed, which I haven't played but is basically the same game) is another rare example of a PC game with a notably good FM-optimized soundtrack. Its MT-32 soundtrack actually sounds fairly terrible in some places by …

Re: OPL3 implementations (ESFM, Crystal FM, dual OPL3 etc)

Posted on 2012-06-05, 03:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally I think most FM synthesizers were wasted on the PC, because they were seen by many game developers as cheap alternatives to higher-quality MIDI synthesizers that also became available around the same time (such as the MT-32 and SC-55 families). They frequently composed MIDI-based …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX?

Posted on 2012-06-04, 19:21

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

Stickying this thread, since it seems to be a long-running active development topic.

Re: Wolf 3d Won't Work in Dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-04, 18:54

in DOS

in DOS

Alt+Enter toggles fullscreen, Alt+Tab will switch to other windows just like with any other Windows app. The DOSBox readme will answer most questions you might have.

Re: Wolf 3d Won't Work in Dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-04, 18:22

in DOS

in DOS

So you've got the game files on your hard drive in that wolf3d folder. This means you don't need to mess with installers. You should be able to just copy the wolf3d folder somewhere, mount it in DOSBox and then run wolf3d.exe inside of DOSBox.

Re: Wolf 3d Won't Work in Dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-04, 15:04

in DOS

in DOS

Hunter Z, I tried looking around on the CD rom and found out that the launch and install programs, etc are all supposed to be MSDOS programs so I don't get why I get the message "this program will not run in DOS mode. I also tried changing the compatibility mode to win95 but did nothing. How can …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-04, 14:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I spent a good chunk of the weekend playing X-Com in DOSBox on a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. It's definitely a little more comfortable on my laptop's 17" screen (also 1920x1200), but there's no such thing as too big :) It also helps that I use output=opengl (plus fullresolution=0x0 and aspect=true), …

Re: Soundfont recommendation thread

Posted on 2012-06-04, 04:05

in Milliways

in Milliways

I tried several GM soundfonts and also found that SGM-V2.01 is really good (better on the whole than FluidR3 and WeedsGM3 I think). I've got one or two SC-55 soundfonts that sound decently close to the real thing as well, but SGM sounds nicer. I'd like to know if there are any gigantic GM soundfonts …

Re: Game will ONLY work with CD in drive

Posted on 2012-06-04, 02:37

in Windows

in Windows

I don't think I've had a problem using ImgBurn and MagicDisc (both 100% free), but I haven't messed much with Windows games that use CD Audio tracks. Redbook audio in games is the devil, and I'm glad it was a short-lived concept.

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