you're pretty low on Ghz

A possibility for the blank screen might be the copy protection failing. If I remember correctly, it checked for a vailid CD when you pressed Enter to bring up the map for the first time.

As Predator said, 1GHZ is slow for running it emulated. It ran best on a Pentium with 16 megs but a 486 would run it. One thing to check is that you are in low res mode. I think the E or R key toggled between low and high res if you had 16 megs of memory.

I do have a valid cd for Magic Carpet. And when I press enter, the spell screen and map comes up. Yeah, I am playing in low resolution with the skies off.
I guess I'll just have to wait for a faster emulator or faster computer. My old computer ran it fine in Windows 95. Who knows why these days they've made it so that Windows can't play it (Although in XP, it kinda runs, but really fast).

Anyone got this to work fast yet?

I'm trying to play it on an AthlonXP2000, with 1GB ram. In lowres or highres, bot run at a max of about 2fps or so.
Also, my sound is best at about 6k cycles, fps is best at about 25k cycles (sound screwed).

Oh, and i'm using XP (SP2).

i got magic carpet running real well. granted i have a fast computer, but it ran slow on my 3.4 Ghz p4 at first too.

after i started using D-Fend v2 as a front end it sped up all of my games a lot.

there is one setting in D-Fend to make the cpu core Dynamic, and it seems as though that had a big impact on Magic Carpet.

guybrush_II wrote:

after i started using D-Fend v2 as a front end it sped up all of my games a lot.

there is one setting in D-Fend to make the cpu core Dynamic, and it seems as though that had a big impact on Magic Carpet.

You do not need D-Fend to use dynamic core... You can set it normally in DOSBOX.CONF.

Mirek

You do not need D-Fend to use dynamic core... You can set it normally in DOSBOX.CONF.

so what exactly is a dynamic core?

and do you know why it is that my games run so much better using d-fend?

Well I've never used D-fend but it's likely that it's default settings simply apply the fastest settings in dosbox.conf. D-Fend is just an interface. It cannot increase or descrease DosBox speed...everything it does it does through DosBox.conf.