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First post, by Zaxxon

Posted on 2009-01-08, 12:33

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hi all,i'm having this problem for a few years,but now i really get angry so i deicded to ask for your help.i have win xp sp2 ,and i use dosbox for all dos games,but for some games i used to run them under win xp.suddenly,without nay chenges in my system,everytime i start a dos games,a pop error appears and says this:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8196/provaxj1.jpg

yep,is in italian but the translation is this

"subsystem msdos at 16 bit
cpu ntvdm has encountered an invalid instruction cs000 ip etc choose "close" for terminate applcation"...any help?

Reply 1 of 10, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-01-08, 12:39

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Probably video drivers.

Just use DOSBox. NTVDM is horrible.

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Reply 2 of 10, by Zaxxon

Posted on 2009-01-08, 13:04

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ah ok..well,i used mainly win xp for dos games for..you know..hearing those blips in the pcspeaker...since dosbox emulates thhose bleeps through audio card..is there a way to hear the bips through pc speaker in dosbox?

Reply 3 of 10, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-01-08, 13:22

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Nope.

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Reply 4 of 10, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2009-01-08, 16:01

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Huh? I play PC speaker-only games like Dragon Wars and Space Rogue in DOSBOX, and they sound fine (I mean like what they sound through real PC speaker).

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Reply 5 of 10, by Zaxxon

Posted on 2009-01-08, 18:42

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really?i played commander keen,i chosed pc speaker as audio device and the blips where "emulated",not real blips comign from pc speaker..unless there's a setting i dont know of..

Reply 6 of 10, by red_avatar

Posted on 2009-01-08, 19:04

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Real 'bleeps' (as in from your PC speaker itself) will always sound more authentic - the sound tends to be sharper and cleaner. DOSBOX's PC speaker feels a lot softer and warmer in sound so I can see why he'd prefer the real thing.

Reply 7 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-01-08, 19:14

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Yeah trying to avoid getting sued because people lost their hearing.

Reply 8 of 10, by Zaxxon

Posted on 2009-01-08, 20:59

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Real 'bleeps' (as in from your PC speaker itself) will always sound more authentic - the sound tends to be sharper and cleaner. DOSBOX's PC speaker feels a lot softer and warmer in sound so I can see why he'd prefer the real thing.

yes,exactly!i solved using vmware,which seems to use pc speaker perfectly

Reply 9 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-01-08, 21:16

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Usually you just have to increase the mixing rate in your dosbox.conf

Reply 10 of 10, by Jorpho

Posted on 2009-01-10, 04:44

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red_avatar wrote:
Real 'bleeps' (as in from your PC speaker itself) will always sound more authentic - the sound tends to be sharper and cleaner. DOSBOX's PC speaker feels a lot softer and warmer in sound so I can see why he'd prefer the real thing.

Huh? Last I heard, a lot of newer PCs only had a cheap piezo noisemaker that is supposedly much less capable than the PC speakers of yore. Is that not the case?

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