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First post, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-17, 23:44

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Yesterday I installed TIE Fighter through Dosbox on my laptop and it worked fine, however the joystick control was very loose and if I recalibrated the joystick through the game, it would get even worse. Usually if I ran it only through VDMSound on my desktop, I'd have no problem getting the joystick calibrated the way I like it. So is there something I may need to edit through Dosbox, or is there some other issue?

Also is it possible to make video recordings of games like TIE Fighter with Dosbox, or is there a third party program I should use?

Reply 1 of 20, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-04-17, 23:49

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DOSBox will record. Read the R.........

Reply 2 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 00:14

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...eadme. Yes, I did, and if it told me I would not have asked.

Reply 3 of 20, by Xerxes

Posted on 2008-04-18, 00:19

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Acacia wrote:
...eadme. Yes, I did, and if it told me I would not have asked.

Really?

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5. Special Keys:
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ALT-ENTER Switch to full screen and back.
ALT-PAUSE Pause emulation.
CTRL-F1 Start the keymapper.
CTRL-F4 Change between mounted disk-images. Update directory cache for all drives!
CTRL-ALT-F5 Start/Stop creating a movie of the screen. (avi video capturing)
CTRL-F5 Save a screenshot. (png)
CTRL-F6 Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file.
CTRL-ALT-F7 Start/Stop recording of OPL commands.
CTRL-ALT-F8 Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands.
CTRL-F7 Decrease frameskip.
CTRL-F8 Increase frameskip.
CTRL-F9 Kill DOSBox.
CTRL-F10 Capture/Release the mouse.
CTRL-F11 Slow down emulation (Decrease DOSBox Cycles).
CTRL-F12 Speed up emulation (Increase DOSBox Cycles).
ALT-F12 Unlock speed (turbo button).

ps. about joystick issue - i have the same problem

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Reply 4 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 00:46

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5. Special Keys:
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ALT-ENTER Go full screen and back.
CTRL-F1 Start the keymapper.
CTRL-F4 Swap mounted disk-image (Only used with imgmount).
CTRL-F5 Save a screenshot.
CTRL-F6 Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file.
CTRL-ALT-F7 Start/Stop recording of OPL commands.
CTRL-ALT-F8 Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands.
CTRL-F7 Decrease frameskip.
CTRL-F8 Increase frameskip.
CTRL-F9 Kill dosbox.
CTRL-F10 Capture/Release the mouse.
CTRL-F11 Slow down emulation (Decrease DOSBox Cycles).
CTRL-F12 Speed up emulation (Increase DOSox Cycles).

Reply 5 of 20, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2008-04-18, 05:16

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Another piece of different readme files lying around.
That's the nature of opensource software. Here is an online version of the readme (see also signature of Minimax), which lists the CTRL-ALT-F5 command:
http://dosbox.cvs.sourceforge.net/dosbox/dosb … DME?view=markup

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Reply 6 of 20, by wd

Posted on 2008-04-18, 06:08

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1Another piece of different readme files lying around.

No there isn't. This is a plain old dosbox installation's readme.

Reply 7 of 20, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2008-04-18, 12:23

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Oh. 🤐

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Reply 8 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 13:06

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Wow, it's like everyone overlooked the major issue just to nitpick on the other one.

Thanks.

Reply 9 of 20, by wd

Posted on 2008-04-18, 13:21

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I don't care about your joystick problems if you use an ancient dosbox version.
Your problem.

And next time (if any) post full system specs including dosbox configuration.

Reply 10 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 14:16

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I wasn't aware that v.72 was ancient.

Reply 11 of 20, by wd

Posted on 2008-04-18, 14:36

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Where did you get it from? What OS? Would be nice to get at least SOME information.

Reply 12 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 14:47

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It's a Dell laptop with Vista (I know it sucks, don't remind me), 1gb RAM, an Intel Core Duo processor, and I got Dosbox from the website.

Reply 13 of 20, by wd

Posted on 2008-04-18, 14:51

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Which website?
Re-download it from dosbox.com in any case and uninstall the old version.
Be sure that the readme matches what was posted above, and that the
reported version number is 0.72.

Reply 14 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 15:00

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Done.

Reply 15 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 17:27

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So now what? I still have the same issue with the joystick.

Reply 16 of 20, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-04-18, 17:34

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IIRC there is some patch for the game that deals with joystick

1+1=10

Reply 17 of 20, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2008-04-18, 18:07

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Acacia wrote:
So now what? I still have the same issue with the joystick.

Have you checked the timed parameter in your .conf file? For instance, if you actually have timed=false when having the joystick problem, then you may want to change it to true, and vice versa.

Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
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Reply 18 of 20, by Acacia

Posted on 2008-04-18, 21:35

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Changing it had no effect. I did restart Dosbox after editing dosbox.conf, of course.

I don't think a patch for the game will be necessary, as I had no problems with the joystick when I ran TIE Fighter on VDMSound.

Reply 19 of 20, by ripa

Posted on 2008-04-18, 22:55

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Try joysticktype=2axis instead of 4axis, fcs, ch, or auto.

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