Re: Peter Schmeichel Soccer Manager (aka Graeme Souness), won't launch
Posted on 2012-08-07, 18:23
The game has a hard-coded requirement to reside in a subdir named PSSM, and the black screen thing happens when it's anywhere else.
Re: Goal! - requires joystick?
Posted on 2012-08-07, 17:59
If you look in the TEXT.ENG file, or any of the other language files, it appears there are only options for JOYSTICK1 and JOYSTICK 2, nothing like KEYBOARD or MOUSE, so appears it does need a joystick. If you don't have a joystick, you can create a "joykey" setup in the DOSBox mapper by mapping keys …
Re: Space Jam - Won't Install
Posted on 2012-08-07, 14:52
When DOSBox closes itself, do you see a "Exit to error: Ran out of CacheBlocks" message in the Status Window? If so, it's a problem of the dynamic core, and it can always be avoided with core=normal. However, having to do that for the install doesn't necessarily mean you'll have to do that for the …
Re: Brett Hull Hockey '95 - can't install
Posted on 2012-08-06, 18:36
The installer needs XCOPY in the path. You can use XCOPY.EXE from MS-DOS or FreeDOS; however, no special switches are used, so in this particular case you can create a XCOPY.BAT file with the command "COPY %1 %2" and put it in the path.
Re: Six Feet Under (1994 EnQue Software)
Posted on 2012-08-06, 12:17
I poked around in version 1.10 from here: http://cd.textfiles.com/psl/pslv3nv04/WIN/GAMES/SFU.ZIP The serial number and "gold key" are stored in C:\WINSYS.IO, which I suppose looks important enough to discourage people from deleting it. The serial number is assigned based on date and time, and the …
Re: Actua Soccer - divide error on instal
Posted on 2012-08-03, 15:17
Sorry if I sound like Captain Obvious here, but did you try using (a lot) less cycles? Some cdrom games do data transfer speed testing for streaming video, and division by zero is a common issue because cdrom images are so fast, but having a too-fast CPU can be an additive or separate cause. Try …
Re: [OLD CLIPPER DB APP] need help to run it.
Posted on 2012-08-02, 21:18
Or just a: Copy code to clipboard 1 if (fileNum<20) fileNum=20; at the top of the function. Whoa, just like DOS. 😉
Re: [OLD CLIPPER DB APP] need help to run it.
Posted on 2012-08-02, 20:48
Yes, and I guess going back to 20 exactly is not allowed for in the change. Furthermore, DOSBox does not currently try to do everything DOS does with INT 21/67. From the RBIL: If BX <= 20, no action is taken if the handle limit has not yet been increased, and the table is copied back into the PSP if …
Re: [OLD CLIPPER DB APP] need help to run it.
Posted on 2012-08-02, 19:37
I was mistaken, the app does not run out of handles in MS-DOS 5/6. The default file handle table in the PSP is 20 entries, and trying to specify fewer than 20 in a call INT 21/67 is treated as if 20 was specified. It makes sense because there is no benefit to setting less than 20; the table space in …
Re: is there a way to play games in BLACK & WHITE?
Posted on 2012-08-02, 17:49
It starts out white, though, you have to press F11 to switch to something else in the first place...
Re: [OLD CLIPPER DB APP] need help to run it.
Posted on 2012-07-31, 19:38
If you don't have the source code, it can be recovered with Clipper decompilers such as Valkyrie. Whether or not you have rights or permission to do so is something you should consider, though. Some of the other executables have the maximum number of handles burned into them, and therefore ignore …
Re: [OLD CLIPPER DB APP] need help to run it.
Posted on 2012-07-31, 13:02
It runs out of handles in real DOS as well. As to why the app works in the NTVDM without running out of handles... I can only guess that calls to INT 21/67 are ignored there or otherwise handled differently than real DOS. When you link a Clipper executable with Blinker, you have the option to "burn …
Re: Fragile Allegiance
Posted on 2012-07-27, 18:33
Seems like you have it sorted, but FYI there is an issue with the game's installation that should be fixed in SVN. Fragile Allegiance _MA\_MA
Re: The Toy Shop (1986) - invalid directory
Posted on 2012-07-27, 14:30
I can reproduce the "invalid path" problem in 0.74, but not in SVN. Seems it was fixed.
Re: [OLD CLIPPER DB APP] need help to run it.
Posted on 2012-07-27, 09:11
Does the "-> 4" refer to DOS error 4, too many open files? If you've built DOSBox with 250 maximum file handles, why are you limiting Clipper to 100 file handles with the environment variable?
Re: Proper way to detect DOSBox from a running program?
Posted on 2012-07-27, 08:55
both should work though. They both work in the sense that they function as intended, but they don't do the same thing. When the debug and non-debug build of a given version of DOSBox share the same mapper file, which they do by default, using -resetmapper instead of -erasemapper creates the kind of …
Re: Proper way to detect DOSBox from a running program?
Posted on 2012-07-27, 01:33
Well, it could be said that you ran into trouble because you didn't follow the advice given... Deleting the mapper file is the easy way to reset the key mappings to default, and there is a shortcut for doing that (under the DOSBox Start Menu group on Windows). If you look at what that menu shortcut …
Re: Under Fire (1987)
Posted on 2012-07-26, 14:28
It tries to verify sectors on the floppy, looking for success in one case and failure in another. DOSBox doesn't support such protection mechanisms (yet), so a workaround is needed to play the game. Run the attached TSR beforehand and the game seems to work from the HD without having to mount a …
Re: Total Control Football - won't launch
Posted on 2012-07-26, 12:59
It appears that disabling the LFB makes the game happy, at least in DOSBox it does. I tried to get it working with the LFB using different DPMI servers, disabling DPMI 1.0 extensions, increasing memsize, loadfix, but none of those things worked. I had limited success with WDOSX, but the game still …
Re: Under Fire (1987)
Posted on 2012-07-26, 12:57
It's using low-level access on the floppy drive, so perhaps mounting an image of the game disk as A: will work; but it's usually done for keydisk copy protection, which is unlikely to work in DOSBox unless it is very simplistic.
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