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First post, by tertuliano

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greetings to all of those responsible for this common effort.

i've installed dosbox and i'm running it with the dapplegrey frontend (i hope this is not the reason for the glitches...), and everything seems to be ok. i'm using it on a powerbook g4, 1,33 with 512 on 10.4 and i think this should be enough to run a game like dune II without any problem. i've kept dapplegrey configuration to the original except for the fullscreen mode. apart from this i've tried to do severall modifications, memory, cpu, etc. but always seems to have some hicups, glitches, the game does not run smoothly like it should. syndicate, for example, is even worst, while the menus are at an acceptable speed, the gameplay is painfully slow and glitchy. i know this is a dosbox forum and not a help dapplegrey community but i would really appreciate some feedback on how to finetune the frontend so i may run the games smoothly on my powerbook. if not, please let me know if running a frontend is not advisable at all and if so, how do i perform the basic loading actions with dosbox itself on OS X?

Many thanks in advance to all and keep up the excelent work. 😀
tertuliano.

Reply 1 of 2, by IIGS_User

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Play with CPU cycles, CPU core and frameskip around,
I think that should help (i'm not a DOSBox expert as I'm should be). 😉

Klimawandel.

Reply 2 of 2, by rhoenie

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First of all: give your Powerbook some more memory. Tiger needs 1GB to run things smoothly. Your 512MB is probably one of the reasons for the weak performance.

I have a 1.25GHz G4 Powerbook and I tried everything to juice the most out of it. With current DOSBox 0.72 and a special config I can have Wolfenstein 3D running smoothly - or in other words: my Powerbook resembles a 1992 style DOS PC. 😀 Since Dune II is from 1992 too it could - in theory - work well.

I haven't tried Dune II but I did so with Settlers (similar type of game) and the result is the same to what you have described. So maybe our computers just don't have enough oomph. Increase the frameskip rate (values between 5 and 10) and good luck!