why don't you just install win98se on your computer? it should run all win3.1 and win95 games

I used to have Win 98 (SE) but I upgraded to Win XP. In general I am pleased with XP's stability but some of my old stuff wouldn't run correctly. I dislike dual boot computers, hence my interest in DOSbox.

I'm trying to get the best of both worlds. Xp's stability and having Win 3.1 (or 95) running in a virtual enviroment. I'm pretty happy with Dosbox. It's free, gets better with every new release, and to my suprise can handle win 3.1 But I wanna push Dosbox as far as I can...if possible, push it to 256 colors.

Try QEMU for 3.1/3.11/Windows9x support and higher video modes.

I will, but that doesnt answer my question whether or not it can be done on DOSbox.

dosbox emulates a s3 trio (searching the forum might help)

specialized drivers do not work as we didn't implement hardware acceleration of the s3. Neither will we add them at short notice.

ah, I see. Ok.

You can use canadacow's version of dosbox (mt32 version). It emulates a card that has 256 colours in 640x480 in win3.1

yes that's right candacow coded an oak videocard in it. that one has much simpeler hardware accelerations.

ok, um where do I get that from?

EDIT: never mind... I'll live with 16 colors (for dosbox at least)

I've got the S3 video driver for Windows 3.1 nearly compatible. I'll be posting my new code to the CVS (ready for 0.64) fairly soon here.

Awesome. Glad to hear it. 😎

laxdragon wrote:

Awesome. Glad to hear it. 😎

win3.11 800x600x256

Which Graphic Mode did U choise, I've tried VGA, VGA v3, XGA, SVGA and in all of the i get a "Video Initaialization failed, You need to run the Setup program again". Does any one know what to do? (The screen of starting appears, but then crash and happens this).

a) VGA version 3 works without any problems. No idea why it does not work for you.
b) If you have the latest CVS and you installed S3 card, start Windows with parameter /b (win /b) to avoid this problem.

Mirek

thanks, but it doesn't run either, now it tells : "Unsupported expanded-memory driver already installed.Remove the driver from Config.sys", but in config.sys there isn't any memory driver... (i dunno what cvs is, I only have the last version of DosBox)

ems=false

The Config.sys file:
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
STACKS=9,256

The Autoexec.bat file:
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
PATH C:\WINDOWS;
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

where do I write "ems=false"? -Thanks

Ok, thanks I founded it (dosbox.conf), now the problems is that the mouse doesn't move 🙁 what can I do to fix this. Thanks

Anonymous wrote:

Ok, thanks I founded it (dosbox.conf), now the problems is that the mouse doesn't move 🙁 what can I do to fix this. Thanks

In this case, you'll have to wait for 0.64 to fix this. No discussion of the CVS is allowed in the general forum.