hydr0x wrote:

If I do that before starting DOSBox for the first time, would it still create the ini in my user dir or not?

It would not, if (as you say) you do it before the first run.

I just tried to run Worms United on Dosbox 0.73 and guess what?
It perfectly works!!!! Even the FMV are smooth (with compression artefacts but they were made with artefacts)

On Dosbox 0.72 the video player used by Worms was unable to show more than 1frame per second...

Hi all
I was able to get the old game Wipeout DOS to run in DOSBOX 7.2. However, it crashed every so often, so I decided to get DOSBOX 7.3 But now I only get an anti piracy warning at the dos prompt! I uninstalled DOSBOX and reinstalled 7.2, but now I get this message no matter which version I use! Is there a way to wipe DOSBOX completely off my computer or can someone tell me what is going on please?

This has happened to me both on windows xp and mac osx

thanks

ian

After I run the Win32 installer from sourceforge.net on 64-bit Windows 7 RC1, I get a "this program may not have installed correctly" warning. Everything seems to be okay though.

Thanks for fixing the Ubuntu scancode bug 😀

Noticed a couple other things testing Wizardry 7 in Windows 7 (Wiz7 in Win7 hehe):

- when I tried to go full-screen, the colors looked all wrong (happens in Starcraft too, so I think Win7 just sucks at 8-bit color). When I tried to go back to a window, it stayed in something like 640x480x8 (instead of 1920x1200x32) and I eventually had to go into the nVidia control panel to get it back to the proper res because Win7's resolution settings claimed it was 1920x1200x32.

Surface mode seems to thus be an unsafe default for Win7 if DOSBox is going to actually try to use 8-bit color.

- I still hear popping sounds from the PC speaker emulation at the beginning and end of digitized sounds in Win7. I thought some kind of PC speaker volume ramping was added to 0.73?

hydr0x wrote:

It's one of those annoying Vista guidelines. I don't want any config/program files in my user directory, I just want data in there. So it's great you're allowing us to just place an ini in the exe directory. One question though: If I do that before starting DOSBox for the first time, would it still create the ini in my user dir or not? Cause I really don't want it to be there, even if it's not used.

First of all, it's not Vista guidelines. It dates back to NT. You can try logging into XP without admin privilleges and observe that you can't write into Program Files.

Contrary to your vision, Vista maid it possible to run flawed programs without admin privilleges. E. g. you can save captures in default DOSBox installation in Vista while you can't do the same in XP.

I think there should be explicit way to configure DOSBox to either standalone (e. g. USB Portable) or standard behaviour.

"Bravo Zulu" to the DOSBox Team for the DOSBox version 0.73 release! 😁

dvwjr

Im finally trying dosbox in my linux install! Yay!

borris187 wrote:

Hi all
I was able to get the old game Wipeout DOS to run in DOSBOX 7.2. However, it crashed every so often, so I decided to get DOSBOX 7.3 But now I only get an anti piracy warning at the dos prompt! I uninstalled DOSBOX and reinstalled 7.2, but now I get this message no matter which version I use! Is there a way to wipe DOSBOX completely off my computer or can someone tell me what is going on please?

Game probably detected an abnormal Operating System or something and intentionally altered it's own game files to prevent play. Try reinstalling the game instead of DOSBox and see if the problem vanishes in DOSBox 0.72.

HunterZ wrote:

- when I tried to go full-screen, the colors looked all wrong (happens in Starcraft too, so I think Win7 just sucks at 8-bit color).

close all instances of Explorer.exe because the Taskbar in Windows 7 is displayed "on top" of other windows fucking the palette up in old 8bit games that use similar methods to the Surface Renderer in DOSBox.

Worms Armageddon which is a Direct Draw game also suffers it but I have a BAT file to work around it.

1taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
2E:"Worms Armageddon""Wormkit.exe"
3pause
4start explorer.exe

I've been using DosBox for about 3 years now.

And this newest version is pretty awesome.

But I can't find the Config file. Which is vitally important to me.

C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\DOSBox

Zalamel wrote:

IBut I can't find the Config file. Which is vitally important to me.

It is in your Start menu.

MusicallyInspired wrote:

If you have a dosbox.conf file in the same directory as the EXE file then it'll automatically use that one instead.

Doesn't do that here, I cut paste the conf file into my dosbox folder "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73" then edited the one at "C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\DOSBox" to use full screen and then I laucnhed dosbox and it started in fullscreen, not using the conf from "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73".

Thanks for the quick response guys.

But I ended up downloading version 72 and putting that config file in the new one and it worked.

Zalamel wrote:

Thanks for the quick response guys.

But I ended up downloading version 72 and putting that config file in the new one and it worked.

In other words,

1) You failed to notice that when you chose Edit Configuration, it popped up Notepad and opened a file called dosbox-0.73.conf

2) You failed to use the Search feature to locate the file.

3) You failed to try to do a Save As... from Notepad and use the file dialogue to figure out where Notepad found the dosbox-0.73.conf file.

That's a lot of fail...

franpa wrote:

Doesn't do that here, I cut paste the conf file into my dosbox folder "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73"

Pssstt! You need to rename it from dosbox-0.73.conf to dosbox.conf.

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Zalamel wrote:

Thanks for the quick response guys.

But I ended up downloading version 72 and putting that config file in the new one and it worked.

In other words,

1) You failed to notice that when you chose Edit Configuration, it popped up Notepad and opened a file called dosbox-0.73.conf

2) You failed to use the Search feature to locate the file.

3) You failed to try to do a Save As... from Notepad and use the file dialogue to figure out where Notepad found the dosbox-0.73.conf file.

That's a lot of fail...

Actually, I read the other 2 comments on where the Config file was Immediately after I put the 0.72 version one in. Since It worked I figured I wouldn't need to edit the other .Config file and didn't bother to.

I didn't check the start menu, as I thought it would contain the same files as the Folder I was already in.

I did use a search but it yielded nothing. (must have used the wrong word)

And no, I did not do a Save As.

HunterZ wrote:

Noticed a couple other things testing Wizardry 7 in Windows 7 (Wiz7 in Win7 hehe): […]
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Noticed a couple other things testing Wizardry 7 in Windows 7 (Wiz7 in Win7 hehe):

- when I tried to go full-screen, the colors looked all wrong (happens in Starcraft too, so I think Win7 just sucks at 8-bit color). When I tried to go back to a window, it stayed in something like 640x480x8 (instead of 1920x1200x32) and I eventually had to go into the nVidia control panel to get it back to the proper res because Win7's resolution settings claimed it was 1920x1200x32.

Surface mode seems to thus be an unsafe default for Win7 if DOSBox is going to actually try to use 8-bit color.

- I still hear popping sounds from the PC speaker emulation at the beginning and end of digitized sounds in Win7. I thought some kind of PC speaker volume ramping was added to 0.73?

Set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=WINDIB and see if that works.

Very good, I will test Alone In The Dark 1 it was OK on 0.72 but the newer CVS builds hade some problem at the end of the game. What happened with the 3 dll files in the CVS builds? There is only 2 now...