Re: No Sound in Theme Hospital

Posted on 2010-09-08, 20:14

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by ripa

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I have no idea where you installed Theme Hospital to, but you don't need to edit any Theme Hospital config files. Theme Hospital puts the savegames under the SAVE directory under where ever you installed it to. Just mount some directory to C: and the cd-rom to D:, run the installer from D: in dosbox …

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Re: No Sound in Theme Hospital

Posted on 2010-09-08, 19:08

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by ripa

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Then I edited the config file for TH to save to: SAVE_OVERRIDE=C:\dosbox But when I try to save in game, it says it is unable to save. How Can i fix this? Don't do that. c:\dosbox\ becomes c:, so from the perspective of the programs running in dosbox there is no c:\dosbox\.

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Re: Pinball Fantasies tearing screen

Posted on 2010-08-26, 17:08

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by ripa

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

1) that config file looks like it's for an ancient version of dosbox 2) Use fulldouble=true

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Re: DOS VGA Emulation, difficult to do?

Posted on 2010-08-24, 16:17

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by ripa

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There is no working implementation of this. Yes, somebody recently attempted a proof of concept, but it is far from complete and, if not done properly, it won't just "not work" but can actively destroy data. There's no way that'll end up in core DOSBox without those decidedly non-trivial things …

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Re: Windows 95 in DOSBox with 256 Colors, Sound, and CD-ROM support

Posted on 2010-08-17, 17:01

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by ripa

in DOSBox General

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Guide - Windows 95 on DOSBox 0.74 "-How do I get CD-ROM support?" You won't unless you implement it in dosbox yourself.

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Re: What is the lowest video resolution of today's video cards ?

Posted on 2010-08-13, 22:00

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by ripa

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I heard the newer NVidia cards don't go down to 320x200 anymore. The bigger issue I think is that today's monitors don't go below 640x480. VGA CRTs never went very low either. Low resolutions like 320x200 are line doubled for example so each line becomes two scanlines. I would be surprised if you …

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Re: DiskExplorer can't open image created by bximage

Posted on 2010-08-13, 17:19

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by ripa

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Try a smaller image (e.g., 480 mb) and use vmware plain image in diskexplorer. I remember having problems with a 512 megabyte disk size.

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Re: Sentient weird resolution

Posted on 2010-08-12, 15:30

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by ripa

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By the way, with aspect=true the picture should be 4:3 even at 320x480.

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Re: DosBox Windows resource file (winres.rc)

Posted on 2010-08-09, 20:53

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by ripa

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I had to delete #include "afxres.h" (or replace it with #include "windows.h") in winres.rc in order to compile in Visual Studio Express.

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Re: MIDI + FM synth

Posted on 2010-08-08, 00:27

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by ripa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the quick answer :-)

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MIDI + FM synth

Posted on 2010-08-08, 00:25

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by ripa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Back in the day when everyone had a Windows and a Sound Blaster / Compatible, MIDI playback had that characteristic FM sound. Did the MIDI data get sent to the card as is, which the card then synthesized using the OPL chip, or did the MIDI driver read the MIDI data and drive the OPL chip? If I …

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Re: SQ6: Space Quest 6 text too fast to read!

Posted on 2010-08-02, 16:30

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by ripa

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Use fixed cycles. E.g., cycles=10000.

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Re: Getting System Shock to work.

Posted on 2010-07-29, 17:09

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by ripa

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Try one of the other output values in dosbox.conf.

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Re: Full screen %

Posted on 2010-07-28, 16:41

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by ripa

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One approach: output=surface scaler=3x fullresolution=1600x1200 # put something here that is bigger than the game's resolution times 3 Another approach: output=overlay # anything else except surface fullresolution=1024x768 # put something less than your desktop's resolution here You also have to set …

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Re: Emulate PC Speaker with Soundcard

Posted on 2010-07-26, 01:44

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by ripa

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Bad news. I don't think my approach fixes pops in Wizardry 7. I managed to coax data out of dosbox: I get a data file with all the pc speaker transitions between high and low and a timestamp for each transition. I process that file outside of dosbox into a 48KHz sound file. Unfortunately the pops …

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Re: Red Alert on DOSBox lost map texture and crashes

Posted on 2010-07-25, 21:15

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by ripa

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For what it's worth, I remember the same issue on a real dos computer back in the day. However, it was a ripped version so that's what I attributed that bug to.

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Re: Red Alert on DOSBox lost map texture and crashes

Posted on 2010-07-25, 15:54

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by ripa

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Original or cracked/ripped version?

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Re: Resolution and scaling in text mode

Posted on 2010-07-25, 15:46

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by ripa

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And the black bars are flickering (from black to completely transparent, revealing what's below the DOSBox window. Hmm, I've got the same problem. I wonder why the native text-mode that I see in full-screen text-mode applications, and when my computer boots, looks very good. Another idea. Try …

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Re: Resolution and scaling in text mode

Posted on 2010-07-24, 23:24

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by ripa

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If you want crisp text, you can use scaler=none, output=openglnb, and fullresolution=1024x768. You won't get aspect ratio correction though, so you'll have black bars at the top and bottom.

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Re: Save States - Proof of concept

Posted on 2010-07-24, 17:51

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by ripa

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FYI: in Beta 8 adlib audio no longer works (tested with Blake Stone shareware).

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