Re: Kick Off 98 - Doesn't detect cd
Posted on 2012-08-20, 15:03
A patch for the issue may be added to SVN at some point. In the meantime, the attached workaround program should help; perhaps it will be effective for 97 as well.
Re: Kick Off 97 - does not detect cd
Posted on 2012-08-20, 14:27
Probably the same issue as Kick Off 98. Does 97 have a proper DOS installer?
Re: Sapiens - divide error
Posted on 2012-08-16, 01:55
Well, we are talking about 1987... try 1000 cycles. 😉 BTW, please check the compatibility list for solutions to problems. http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=1910
Re: College Slam - Does not detect cd
Posted on 2012-08-15, 23:37
The disc label is checked with a call to INT 21h/4Eh CX=8, resulting in a "no more files" error with an image mount. Even though the label is blank (spaces) there should not be an error. A blank label is returned with no error when the same image is mounted in Daemon Tools and that drive MOUNTed in …
Re: taewoong build - auto mounts c:\?
Posted on 2012-08-15, 20:07
FYI, vanilla SVN builds allow you to change the date with the DATE command, you don't have to resort to an experimental build for that.
Re: Hi-Octane + General MIDI = crash?
Posted on 2012-08-15, 01:15
There is a bug in the main executable causing it to react badly to the relatively small size of the MPU401.MDI driver. A low-tech fix is to pad the driver with zero bytes so it's as large as the other MIDI drivers. I've attached an archive with the padded driver for convenience; it avoids the bug …
Re: Bumble Games (1983) - locks dosbox up
Posted on 2012-08-14, 17:36
That means the .BAS file being loaded into the interpreter has a line that is too long. I suspect the file is either corrupt or has been modified from its original form, possibly to convert it to other BASIC dialects (e.g. QBasic). Check the date stamps on the .BAS and make sure they all have a 1983 …
Re: Bumble Games (1983) - locks dosbox up
Posted on 2012-08-14, 16:55
Try a different BASIC interpreter than the one that is included, such as GWBASIC or BASICA for a PC clone (e.g. Compaq). The BASIC interpreters published by IBM tend to rely on BASIC in ROM, which clone PCs (and DOSBox) don't have.
Re: Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3 - no sound?
Posted on 2012-08-13, 20:20
All sound options are through the command line. Pass some bogus parameter to get a list (e.g. "wgh3 showme").
Re: TV Sports Football - freeze on gameplay
Posted on 2012-08-13, 19:32
This game actually has a few known issues. The hang is caused by a game bug that reads the interrupt table from a null pointer, and is avoided on real systems because of how the interrupt table is typically arranged. A workaround program is attached for the issue. There are some graphics that appear …
Re: Star Rank Boxing II - error
Posted on 2012-08-13, 17:43
There is some problem with PCjr, but it works OK with machine=tandy if you select video option 2 in the setup program. Similar to FaceMaker, mounting any floppy image as A: seems to make the game happy.
Re: Rugby World Cup 95 - false hd full error
Posted on 2012-08-13, 17:00
What the installer is actually upset about is that DOSBox doesn't allow it to set the date and time stamp on the files it creates. It should work in ykhwong's build, which supports setting the stamps; or you can use the attached program to work around the misrepresented complaint. The game itself …
Re: Christoph Kolumbus
Posted on 2012-08-13, 13:56
Would probably be more relevant to report results with DOS-era video hardware. The legacy support in modern video cards can be... spotty. The problem does not occur in DOSBox when loading an S3, Tseng, Western Digital, Trident, or IBM VGA BIOS. I put in logging to confirm that palette indexes 0xf8 …
Re: SVN Directory handling
Posted on 2012-08-13, 13:43
The change was made to fix the "Dactylus" installer, but it is only necessary at the function level. In MS-DOS the trailing backslash behavior is applied to both the command line and the function call, but DOSBox could depart from the compatible behavior at the shell level if no game is known to …
Re: SVN Directory handling
Posted on 2012-08-13, 03:18
If a trailing backslash on the path when changing the default directory is the issue (the thread starter did not mention that or use it in an example) then the behavior was intentionally changed to be more compatible. In MS-DOS 5/6 the rule is: a trailing backslash is only valid if the path resolves …
Re: SVN Directory handling
Posted on 2012-08-12, 21:45
I created a three-level folder structure. If I type "cd .\folder\folder" from C:\ my default becomes C:\FOLDER\FOLDER, and if type the same command from C:\FOLDER my default becomes C:\FOLDER\FOLDER\FOLDER. So, I'm not seeing any problem here with current SVN source. Please, whenever possible ( …
Re: Christoph Kolumbus
Posted on 2012-08-12, 16:34
The game relies on a behavior of real video BIOSes where the upper 8 entries of the VGA palette are not initialized when setting mode 13h. It uses the upper entries for font and mouse pointer colors, and the DOSBox internal video BIOS sets them to black when mode 13h is set. case M_VGA: case M_LIN8: …
Re: Anybody able to get Gravis Ultrasound working in Daggerfall?
Posted on 2012-08-10, 20:58
For digital sound I suggest configuring the game for SB16 because a GUS config has some issue where it sounds bubbly or garbled. It's possible to manually edit the HMISET.CFG file to use a mono GUS driver instead of a stereo GUS driver, which sounds OK in DOSBox, but loss of stereo is probably a bad …
Re: International Sports Challenge Sound
Posted on 2012-08-08, 18:44
Uh, I think that's all you're supposed to get. As I mentioned, the FM music in the options screens during the events works, although it's pretty spartan. Set pcspeaker=false and that should verify for you that what you're hearing is FM sfx.
Re: International Sports Challenge Sound
Posted on 2012-08-08, 18:29
I don't think you should delete START.DAT, the setup options are in the SETUP.DAT file. SETUP.EXE doesn't look at SETUP.DAT, it always defaults to speaker. Change the sound option by pressing space on it and then on "Done". If you look at what is written in SETUP.DAT, no distinction is made between …
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