Re: DOSBox Icon

Posted on 2011-03-24, 02:22

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Posting some stuff here, since there hasnt been a lot of icon-making activity in this thread lately (although bobdevis' icons from the last page were quite good looking) Was messing around with the 5.25" floppy idea. Unoriginal, but I tried to make them look at least halfway "authentic" and I dare …

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2011-03-14, 21:00

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Mean something like this? :happy: http://i.imgur.com/F15aO.jpg (yeah that's just a photoshop job... serves as my wallpaper) I'd love to see some oldschool CRT emulation, too, but unfortunately I don't think it's feasible to expect DOSbox to have anything like that any time soon. You need a lot of …

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Re: How to tweak CGA / EGA game palettes easily :)

Posted on 2011-03-07, 17:28

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Just mapped the 16 colors to CGA-like ones. Actually I don't think that this EGA tool is very useful for 320x200 EGA games (you just get to re-arrange the same 16 colors that you had to begin with), but it's fun for CGA games, which probably wasn't even the intention behind it... But here's what's …

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How to tweak CGA / EGA game palettes easily :)

Posted on 2011-03-06, 15:13

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Something fun that I came across, maybe this will be interesting to some (I remember there was some talk about hacking different palettes for CGA games) I've found this public domain utility here: http://cd.textfiles.com/microhaus/mhblackbox2/SCREEN/CHGCOLOR.ZIP (documentation and source included) …

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2010-09-13, 16:51

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On PCJr and Tandy you can do this with a TSR. Interesting... as a matter of fact, I thought of this after seeing your recent PCJr/Tandy palette patch. Does such a TSR already exist (and if so where)? And would it work by simply running it before any CGA game when machine=pcjr or tandy (I assume …

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2010-09-13, 16:40

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If you want to hack a different palette for some game, a pre-selection like you're intending to do it may not work since registers are reset on mode switch. Easiest would be changing the respective functions in the dosbox sources to permanently override the 4-color palette to the one you want to …

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2010-09-09, 23:46

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Thanks BdR, this is quite fun Check out DOOM and DOOM II in CGA composite mode 😁 title screens adapted with some tweaking, and viewed in DOSbox/BMPDITH with 4:3 aspect correction

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2010-09-09, 22:13

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Oh, of course I was trying with "machine=cga", it just didn't occur to me to mention the obvious :) My silly mistake was something entirely different, it seems.... the first composite screenshots of gwbasic in this thread showed just white text, so I assumed that it was text mode (while it was in …

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2010-09-09, 10:52

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Yeah my XT clone went from a monochrome monitor with CGA (actually a clone card that had an MDA-like text mode) to EGA... and besides my country uses PAL, so I had never actually seen Composite CGA in action until DOSbox came along really. Does your GWBASIC program switch DOSbox into composite "mode …

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2010-09-07, 13:08

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Hey BdR, that looks awesome. I like the idea of creating new CGA composite art Might try a few myself when I find the time, stay tuned....

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Re: "aspect=true" does not work with CGA 160x100 and some other modes

Posted on 2010-09-06, 02:47

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Works beautifully with MB5, thanks!! Great work on that one. Any chance that this feature will be incorporated into a future official build of DOSBox? (along with others from MB5 that aren't there already). Would be good to have all the latest features along with this.

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Re: "aspect=true" does not work with CGA 160x100 and some other modes

Posted on 2010-09-03, 19:19

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Yeah, I was just running the "GRATEST2.EXE" tool by h-a-l-9000, which was posted at --> "Experimental VGA Patch" (pg.4) <-- And indeed, it seems that graphics modes at e.g. 640x200 / 640x400 and 640x350 work very nicely with aspect correction set to true - but text modes don't, even when they're at …

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"aspect=true" does not work with CGA 160x100 and some other modes

Posted on 2010-09-03, 13:08

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I'm kind of stubborn when it comes to getting the right pixel aspect ratio, when emulating screen modes that weren't designed for square pixels. For 320x200 (being the most common), setting "aspect=true" works perfectly, and gives me those beautiful stretched 1:1.2 pixels we all know and love :) …

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Re: Really old PC Speaker speech-programs for DOS??

Posted on 2008-02-08, 19:24

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Hats off, good sir! That's exactly the one I was looking for. I've actually managed to find some others since making that post, but they're all completely independent of machine speed - with this one you get the bonus of pitch-control by playing with the cpu cycles 😁

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Really old PC Speaker speech-programs for DOS??

Posted on 2008-02-07, 00:46

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I remember these things from my youth - really simple command-line tools such as "speak.com" or "say.com" or whatever, where you would simply write something like "SAY CZECHOSLOVAKIA" and it would perform simple, crude, wonderful speech synthesis on the 1-bit PC speaker of my XT clone... I've been …

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Re: Mounting CUE

Posted on 2007-08-26, 18:01

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MP3 gets wrong timing because it changes the soundwaves a lot when compression takes place To be pedantic, that's not the actual reason (OGG "changes the soundwaves a lot" too, for example) - the issue is that MP3 is encoded in "frames" of a constant size (1 frame = 26ms, or around 38fps), so if …

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Re: DOSBox Midi vs ScummVM Midi Question

Posted on 2007-08-08, 10:18

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Hmmm..... from what I know of AdLib FM synthesis (and I could be wrong), even though it is patch- and event-based, the generated music data is not automatically translatable into MIDI, mostly due to the inherent incompatibility of the events/commands that the two methods handle (due to their …

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Re: Good LCD monitors for DOSBox/retrogaming in general

Posted on 2007-08-07, 12:06

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Thanks for all the detailed information, that's exactly what I was looking for. I'm currently stuck with an ATI, so I foresee having to exhume this thread as soon as I get the monitor(s)... though between Locutus' findings and gulikoza's D3D patch I expect that something would work. 😉

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Re: Original Digger/Digger Remastered

Posted on 2007-08-07, 11:33

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The original Digger doesn't work at all. Works very well for me - what parameters are you using? Make sure to set machine=cga (the original Digger has always required CGA or a very close compatible, like many other Windmill games... never worked on my EGA and VGA machines back in the day). As for …

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Re: Good LCD monitors for DOSBox/retrogaming in general

Posted on 2007-08-06, 19:44

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Thanks for the explanations, all... suppose it'll be a bit of trial and error! Although jerky scrolling worries me a lot more than blurring does.... My Direct3D output supports something like this. It will stretch a 320x200 game to 1280x1000. This is closest to original res and does not blur the …

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