Download the newest CVS or the sources from sf.net and compile it yourself, helps with most problems...

The rpm from Cooker should work on 9.2 as well. The cooker rpm is currently at version 0.60, and runs well here on my 9.2 system.

Hez

the rpms for mandrake aren't maintained by the dosbox team. So you'd best ask mandrake for a update.

Barry Bingham wrote:

with tweaking it plays Doom beautifully.

Just curious what tweaking you did to get Doom to run? It runs really slow here and crashes with some video error.

I fixed the speed problem by upping the cpu cycles, but it still crashes a lot.

XulChris wrote:

Just curious what tweaking you did to get Doom to run?

I changed the cycle in the conf file to 10850 and set the skipframe to 5. I found that significantly lower or higher cycle speeds caused Doom to crash (wallrender..). Setting the frameskip to 5 also improved the sound quality and didn't really make any very noticeable negative difference to gameplay. It semed at least as good as on my old 486 in the mid 90s...

Of course these values vary according to processor. I'm running an Athlon 1.7Mhz system here.

Thanks to other posters. Will try the cooker, Hez and if still problematic, grapple with the tar as Deathcrow suggests. I'm not just new to DosBox - I'm also new to Linux so this is a learning curve all the way...

Didn't know they made 1.7MHz Athlons. Must be a really damn good architecture to run as well as a 486 which would be running at least 33MHz. 😉

hi. I just installed the 0.6 rpm for mandrake 9.1 and everything just works fine. Much better then dosemu...
I am happy harsszeg@cyberspace.org

Snover wrote:

Didn't know they made 1.7MHz Athlons.

They didn't. They called them 1700+ but really they run at something like 1400.

Snover wrote:

Must be a really damn good architecture to run as well as a 486 which would be running at least 33MHz.

I know the figures don't make sense given what Dosbox is said to emulate. But I don't remember my 486 (A DX2-50..) giving a better result than this. Which might be memory playing tricks and the shit monitor I had in those days.. or the fact that I didn't tell DOS to skip up to 5 frames..??!!??

That said, I've just tried the newest Mandrake cooker of 0.6. Greatly improved sound, BUT I now can't find any cycle/frameskip combo that doesn't sooner or later finish up with Doom crashing on a wall render....

OK, apparently my sarcasm is a bit too subtle for you.

Didn't know they made 1.7MHz Athlons.

Yes, Snover, far too subtle. You are either wired this way or not. Not, in my case. Comes of being brain-dead since birth probably. But at least I now understand the error on which the humour rests....

Anyway, now that I'm done inflating your mistakes, we can all move on. 😀