Re: Help me with some Windows 3.X based games?

Posted on 2013-03-16, 19:23

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by ripsaw8080

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I'm not reproducing the problem you describe: sound not working when movies are toggled to fullscreen, even after restarting DOSBox and Win3. I'm using default settings in DOSBox 0.74, WfW 3.11, S3 Trio 64/32 video driver version 1.70.04, SB16 driver + patch. I chose minimum install for the game, …

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Re: Terminator (1990) install help

Posted on 2013-03-16, 19:16

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by ripsaw8080

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It works here with default settings in 0.74. You may or may not need cputype=386_prefetch depending on version of the game, but it should be safe to use even if not necessary. I think your problem is likely how you are installing and running the game. Put the install files for the game into a folder …

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Re: DOSShark for DOSbox 0.74

Posted on 2013-03-16, 19:00

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by ripsaw8080

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If you get a message in the status window about an exit due to DMA wrapping, that is specific to 0.74. If DMA wrapping is the problem you run into, at what point in the game does it happen? You might be able to work around the problem with loadfix (experiment with various allocation sizes), but 0.73 …

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Re: Terminator (1990) install help

Posted on 2013-03-16, 17:06

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by ripsaw8080

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It's a setting in the conf file, by default it is cputype=auto. You can change it in the conf file, or just type "cputype=386_prefetch" at the prompt in DOSBox before running the game.

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Re: Terminator (1990) install help

Posted on 2013-03-16, 16:26

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by ripsaw8080

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The game needs the cputype=386_prefetch setting. Please edit your post and remove the illegal download link, those are not welcome here.

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Re: Help me with some Windows 3.X based games?

Posted on 2013-03-16, 01:05

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by ripsaw8080

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Dunno what would cause the sound to cut out... try sbmixer=false, and maybe fixed cycles or a cycle limit. If the movies are in QT or VFW format, did you install the latest drivers? Are you using a video driver color depth recommended in the game readme? I've seen some games install outdated QT …

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Re: Wings of Glory by Electronic Arts (1995) Freeze and Weird Issues

Posted on 2013-03-15, 22:15

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by ripsaw8080

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Do you get narration over the intro movie and over the external view of the buildings just before the the office scene? I suggest trying various amounts of fixed cycles, but it's a shot in the dark because I don't have the problem. Try re-installing, too, if you haven't already.

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Re: Wings of Glory by Electronic Arts (1995) Freeze and Weird Issues

Posted on 2013-03-15, 21:38

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by ripsaw8080

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Well, your mileage may vary. You didn't specify what problem is supposed to be resolved by core=normal, and it wouldn't be the first time I had trouble reproducing one of your issues. ;)

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Re: Wings of Glory by Electronic Arts (1995) Freeze and Weird Issues

Posted on 2013-03-15, 21:16

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by ripsaw8080

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Not needed here. I see no difference in the game other than dynamic core is faster in flight; and ems=false is still needed to avoid the paging error.

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Re: Issues with typing in Shadowgate

Posted on 2013-03-14, 20:55

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by ripsaw8080

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Are you using the machine=cga setting? It might seem unrelated to the keyboard, but there are some differences with standard vs. enhanced key handling. Typing in the game is working for me with machine=cga. Note that the keyboard issue applies to some other Icom games as well.

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Re: Wings of Glory by Electronic Arts (1995) Freeze and Weird Issues

Posted on 2013-03-14, 20:50

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by ripsaw8080

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I installed the game from the CD in DOSBox 0.74 with default settings, and configured the game for SB16 sound and GM music. The sound and music tests work OK. When speaking with people the sound is working here, so I'm not sure what your issue might be. Ensure that you're using default settings, and …

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Re: Dosbox + Teledisk

Posted on 2013-03-14, 17:47

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by ripsaw8080

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Disk-based copy protection gave way to document-based over time. I think that the majority of disk-based copy-protected games would at least run (if slowly in some cases) on a 8086/8088 system, but I would hesitate to say "all" of them. For example, if MobyGames is to be believed, Yo! Joe! Beat the …

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Re: Dosbox + Teledisk

Posted on 2013-03-14, 16:57

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by ripsaw8080

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While it's true that PCE supports uncompressed (i.e. not Advanced Mode) TeleDisk images, that support isn't going to help you if the game you want to play needs a 286 or later CPU.

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Re: Tandy font for DOSBOX must be changed based on Tandy 1000 machine.

Posted on 2013-03-14, 16:48

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by ripsaw8080

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The font could (rather than the "must" from your thread title) be changed if a higher degree of accuracy in the text display is considered to be important, but it has evidently not been a development priority thus far. Instead, DOSBox economizes on internal data by using one set of 8x8, 8x14, and …

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Re: Monchr game

Posted on 2013-03-13, 10:19

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by ripsaw8080

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Well, you can try using "TURBOKEY Z4" to slow down key repeating to a crawl... The game could have been programmed to process keys as soon as they are pressed, yet still have the enemy movement on a selectable delay; but that's not how it is, key processing is also delayed. If you run the game with …

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Re: Help me with some Windows 3.X based games?

Posted on 2013-03-12, 21:07

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by ripsaw8080

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The Fisher-Price game and its installer seem to work OK with *only* the video and sound drivers installed in Windows 3. The installer is a Win16/Win32 hybrid, so Win32s may be a hangup, at least in DOSBox. Also, the game uses QuickSound, which may have problems with certain versions of QuickTime. So …

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Re: Help me with some Windows 3.X based games?

Posted on 2013-03-12, 18:14

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by ripsaw8080

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Some Win32s games run into the "Unexpected DOS error: 21" problem, and cputype=486_slow (or pentium_slow) usually gets rid of it. For the virtual memory complaint, did you try increasing memsize? (in theory you don't need as much virtual memory with more physical memory)

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Re: [DOSBox 0.74] - how use combination keys?

Posted on 2013-03-12, 09:38

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by ripsaw8080

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I know the TC++ IDE has many key combos based on Ctrl+key and Alt+key; but I don't know of any Ctrl+Alt+key combos, and there's none mentioned in the help. Please describe a specific key combo that doesn't work and which part of the IDE it's used in. Note that some key combos used in the TC++ IDE …

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Re: Monchr game

Posted on 2013-03-11, 02:36

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by ripsaw8080

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There's no "issue" here that I see, the game is working as designed, even if you don't like the design. When you use the delay to slow down the enemies to a speed that you consider "playable", you also reduce the response to your keystrokes because the game is not processing them while in its delay …

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Re: Monchr game

Posted on 2013-03-10, 20:16

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by ripsaw8080

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The keyboard buffer backs up when you have too much delay for the amount of cycles. For more authentic timing, how the game ran on machines in 2000, you should be increasing cycles, like 10000 to 15000 or even higher, and chose a delay value that works well for that.

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