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First post, by Minuous

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The attached PD game (Spacewar) was fine under DOSBox 0.61, but seems to have been broken under DOSBox 0.62, and the same problem still exists under 0.63. It uses a 640x200 monochrome CGA screenmode.

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Reply 2 of 20, by Qbix

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Yeps I fixed it recently
if you get yourself a cvs from where ever you want. (see the cvs compile topic) and you can play it again.
Thank you for informing us though

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Reply 5 of 20, by HunterZ

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I wouldn't have moved it here, since it's already fixed in the CVS. It's better for people who aren't beta testers to be able to know it will be fixed in the next release.

Reply 9 of 20, by rcblanke

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Hi guys,

Looks fine to me, what's the problem?!

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    Spacewar CVS 12/18/2005
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Reply 12 of 20, by DosFreak

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I wonder how many games have been fixed....then broken....then fixed again?

Qbix, do you have a list of these games? If this happens fairly often then it's likely to happen again in the future.....so it would be nice to have a list......

I've been meaning to expand my DosBox Compatibility List with CVS versions about 6 months apart but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Reply 13 of 20, by Minuous

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The CVS build available is still the 11 Dec 05 one. So presumably I need to wait a few days for a newer CVS build to appear...

My Dosbox.conf is totally standard, except machine=cga, and a few autoexec lines to mount the HD.

Reply 14 of 20, by Qbix

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Dos_freak. Well there was this issue with the scanslines in cga mode.
This was recently introduced by the pcjr support.
As It was reported by sirgraham quite fast, it was fixed quite fast as well.
That small bug broke most if not all cga games. Including this one.

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Reply 15 of 20, by `Moe`

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Actually, I don't see much breaking around. I continuously check my collection against latest CVS with patches, and it's been ages since something that worked once broke again.

Reply 17 of 20, by HunterZ

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Ah, Spacewar, the game that my brother and I were playing furiously against each other on the 286 when our EGA monitor overheated and blew out due to having the Epson MX-80 printer sitting on top of it (oops).

Good to know it's working (again?) - I'll have to grab a copy and play it again for the first time in around 17 years 😀