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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 17:32

Skyroads: after running the game press ESC to go to the main menu, select the "Controls" menu option, then select the "Speaker" icon to enable music or the "Zzz thought bubble" icon to disable music. The enable/disable selection should be remembered the next time you start the game. It's AdLib music …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-07, 00:38

DOSBox's current colors sometimes look like old CGA and sometimes new CGA, due to that 15-degree tint hack, which just happens to correspond to the difference between the two cards in mode 6 (more or less). It turned out that this hack isn't based on real hardware behavior after all, and it's …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 22:36

The question with implausible machine/monitor combination arises with a fake monitor command just as much as it does arise with a monitor= config file setting. Of course, but I don't think a monitor= setting will be accepted, whether it be a conf setting or a command. The only awkwardness that I …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 21:53

I think you could easily handle invalid combinations by falling back to using the default monitor= setting for the chosen machine= setting, and spitting a warning message on the DOSBox status console. It opens up a can of worms, both in programming and in documentation. A log message doesn't make …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 20:02

The problem with that approach, as I see it, is "in for a penny, in for a pound". You'd logically have to make this new monitor= setting apply to hercules at a minimum (currently uses a keybind to change mono color), and then how would it apply to other machine types? EGA/VGA mono is a possibility, …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-06, 19:20

the new features are activated by adding the new options to existing config files. That's not the way the conf file works. Settings omitted from the conf use their default value, settings included in the conf override their default value. All settings are written when you use the "config -writeconf …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-05, 19:00

I still don't understand why the config file is so sacred and untouchable. I don't think it's either of those things. In my experience the devs simply prefer to avoid additional conf settings, and that preference is nothing new. Also, there are few (if any) conf settings that are only applicable to …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-06-05, 18:09

Instead of additional conf settings, a different approach is a Z: drive internal program that only appears for machine types with composite functionality. You could pass it an individual var=value parameter, or several of them at once. I think it would be about as useful as the conf approach because …

Re: Masm32 apps

Posted on 2012-06-04, 19:55

win32s apps made with the masm32 package dont seem to be working A rather vague description of the problem, don't you think? If you are encountering an "Unexpected DOS Error: 21" message with your win32s programs, that can usually be resolved with a cputype=486_slow setting in DOSBox.

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