What linux distribution are you running?

If it's Ubuntu, just get the package timidity.

For dosbox 0.73, your config is in ~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf

(it's quick in terminal to just cut n' paste

1gedit ~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf

)

In the config file [midi] section
midiconfig=128:0

You probably need to adjust other settings for full speed, you can try opengl or overlay, instead of surface (in the [sdl] section)

Save the config then launch your game, see how it goes.

P.S. If you are new to the Linux version, one thing I like is that you can right click your .bat, .exe, or .com and launch with dosbox. It will mount the location as c automatically, works with every dos game I've tried and a custom .bat for cd mounting, makes it super easy to launch dos games even without a front-end.

Ah ok, great, thanks for the info! Yes, Im using ubuntu 9.04. Do you advice any of the settings in output? overlay, surface, opengl ...?

I'm not new to linux, I know my way around it, I tend to use just dosbox, without frontends, since I dont know if there are frontends for linux. I like to type the commands myself. 😀

I see. You can try each setting and see which one works best for you. Surface is just using software render, so it is likely the slowest if you have hardware acceleration.
Just play around (there are new ones in 0.73 for machine= for example, maybe the videomode is problematic with your game.)

Without knowing your hardware I can't make a better guess then that.

It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to test out multiple settings 😀

btw boyofdestiny try this as command

1dosbox -editconf gedit

This way you don't need to remember where it is 😉

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I see. You can try each setting and see which one works best for you. Surface is just using software render, so it is likely the slowest if you have hardware acceleration.
Just play around (there are new ones in 0.73 for machine= for example, maybe the videomode is problematic with your game.)

Without knowing your hardware I can't make a better guess then that.

It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to test out multiple settings 😀

Well, my older computer has a pentum 4 3ghz with HT, geforce 6200 256mb, 1.5mb ddr RAM, thats the one im trying dosbox on. My newer computer has a c2d, 2gb ddr2ram x1950pro. Is the p4 cpu too slow for the latter, more demanding DOS games?

Qbix: That is much simpler, and works like a charm 😀
I haven't typed `man dosbox` in ages...
-exit, -machine are super useful, I was making .bat files and using a custom config for CGA games when I could have just used those simple parameters...

TemptingTheLure: I'm wondering about the video driver for your video card, that and I don't have any DOS games beyond 1997... Proprietary video drivers tend to stink on 2D acceleration (at least when I tried them...) So it could just be that. I'm on a coreduo, 2 gig of ram, onboard intel, dell e1705 laptop... DOSBox has run everything I've thrown at it (except that old talking parrot thing that came with soundblaster, or sb16 can't even remember anymore...)

You can try disabling flashy compiz effects if enabled:
Go to System -> Prefrences -> Appearance
Set Visual Effects to None.

If that doesn't help I guess try a different driver if possible, or toy with the dosbox settings, I think your machine should be able to handle it (fairly sure anyway 😉 )