Well be considered in next mouse upgrade.

could you please also have a look at the mouse coords for "day of the viper". (the splitscreen problem)
i think this is a similar problem.
...thx...

Thanks Fizzban, it looks very promising. It is possible that with this fix also Riddle of Master Lu will be playable with DOSBox Riddle of Master Lu (again) under latest CVS . Fizzban, don´t you have Riddle so you could test it?

Hi there. I've got a problem running Orion Burger and Riddle of Master Lu. I "patched" the mouse.cpp like you said but with my cvs (currently from 20th Dec) the graphics didnt work (I sea only the first part of the Screen - I think the first 65536Pixels 😀. @Fizzban: How do you mangaged Orion Burger to run?
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Finally I got it running (starting orion / masterlu / install / setup / whatever with option -slo), but -slo(w) is slow and almost impossible. Any idears for frameskip and cycles?
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My System:
AMD AthlonXP-2800 (~2100Mhz or something like that)
ASUS A7N8X
2x512MB Infineon (PC400, CL2, DualChannel)
Geforce4MX440 (i know, i know :'()
270GB-HDD

So it is confirmed that this fix can also help with the Riddle of Master Lu.
And now another problem with the slowness, hrmm, really nasty games they are. You tried both CTRL+F12 and CTRL+F8 I presume. Both of the games are similarly slow? They have similar requirements: 486 DX-33 and 8MB RAM. I compared them in Virtual PC - Orion is running fast there albeit I cannot get any sound. Master Lu has sound, but the game is very slow in the first screen (with a cobra). Then, when the cobra is killed and music sequence is over, the game is running much quicker.

Well I tried both: frameskip and cpu-cycles. In my opinion the option -slo causes the slowness, however i'm not sure. But without it i got the above described grafic-issues. I think that the used VESA-Mode isnt correct implemented (if it is implemented at all). The sound plays mostly smoothly. I set cpu cycles up to 8400 and frameskip from 2 till 4. But it runs - and i love this game 😀 "Great job!" @ DosBox-Team 😀

I think that both games need standard VESA mode 640x480x8bpp and this mode is implemented. Let´s hope Fizzban will be around again and tell us more about his experiences.

Finally I got it running smoothly: CPU-Cycles set to 10000 / Frameskip set to 0

Then copy the game CD to your HD and mount this dir with e.g. "mount e d:\gamez\orion-cd -t cdrom" After that you can run orion with option -slo smoothly. I think riddle will work with this config to - i will try this evening..

Damn, i played Orion Burger little time, but when i'm moving and went into a new location it "hangs". Also the direction isnt correct (in Orion Burger i click to went down the street and the guy wents up. (I wanna speak to somebody and he wents off the screen) - same is in riddle. Any Idears??
Nachtrag: if the rooms are without any NPCs the game runs fine, but with them it hangs... Strange 🙁

I´m not a programmer so I can´t help much. But if somebody with programming skills would like to help with that problem and does not have these games for testing purposes, Orion can be found at Home of the Underdogs (Riddle not, but seems that solving problems with one game could help also with the other). Demoversion of Orion Burger also exists (I have it), but I cannot find it on the net.

Under Linux sometimes the mouse cursor gets lost in the apllication. I would like to switch between the mouse in the dosbox window and my desktop environment. Usually it is no problem to restore the icon when dosbox is terminated manually, but sometimes I feel strange with a cursor lost, esp. when the program is frozen and i cannot terminate dosbox via mouse.

CTRL-F10 releases mouse from Dos Box
CTRL-F9 forcibly closes Dos Box.

That won't help if DOSBox has locked up. 😀

An easy way to restore your mouse without restarting the X server in linux is to open a terminal or cycle to an already running one, launch again dosbox (after killing the one that froze) and run a program/game that uses the mouse. The mouse will then come back to its normal state. 😀

I had the same problem with the graphics, just run UniVBE 5.3a from SciTech before Orion Burger and it will work. It seems that Orion Burger is doing something quick&dirty not supported by the built-in VESA support. This may also help with Master Lu but I don't have that game so I cannot test it.

i had a look at the ints/mouse.cpp file
there is an interupt handler:

case 0x24: /* Get Software version and mouse type */
reg_bx=0x805; //Version 8.05 woohoo
reg_ch=0x04; /* PS/2 type */
reg_cl=MOUSE_IRQ; /* Hmm ps2 irq dunno */

and MOUSE_IRQ is defined as 12

you should set reg_cl to 0, because acording to the Mouse Reference 0 stands for PS/2 Model and 5-7 are Mouse-Interupts (12 isn't even defined *g)

🤣 I just changed that into 12 😀
(don't have the reference you know 😀

i don't have the complete reference - but i found an OLD book about this interupt stuff

and there it says that IRQ 0 stands for Model PS/2 (at least in this int33/24 case)
no garantee that its right in every case

Also if you ever actually read your SourceForge site, somebody has posted a mouse update about a month ago already in the Patches section.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func … 551&atid=467234