First post, by rcblanke
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Hi everybody,
I've been testing a lot of booter games from Retrograde Station https://web.archive.org/web/20090206231858/ht … .org/index2.htm the last couple of days, and thought it might be usefull to let the DosBox developers know where the most important remaining problems are.
As you can see, dosbox 0.65 already fully supports most of the booters offered at Retrograde Station. Great work people!
I've attached the original Excel sheet for convenience. I hope the main developers can use my list to their advantage!
Some extra information: All these games use the following basic DOSBox settings in order to get them to run:
core=normal
machine=cga (a few games run in ega, thus using machine=vga, or tandy)
cycles=350 (some needed a small raise to +/-750)
xms=false
ems=false
umb=false
no audio, except for internal speaker
What's more, a couple of PCJr games seem to work correctly in 0.65 as well! CVS currently has Pinball Construction Set fixed.
Regards,
Ronald
Flopper DosBox 0.63 DosBox 0.65
Activision
Ghostbusters ok Hangs while booting ok (strangely slow, though)
Hacker 2 ok ok ok
Mindshadow ok ok ok
Portal ok ok ok
Tass times in Tonetown ok Crashes when loading ok
Atari
Battlezone ok ok ok
Centipede ok ok ok
Defender ok Crashes upon start of game, right after introscreen ok
Dig Dug ok ok ok
Donkey Kong ok ok ok
Galaxian ok ok ok
Jungle Hunt Crashes when loading (on non-CGA only?) Hangs at start (using 100% cpu) Shows introscreen, then hangs on exception
Moon Patrol Works, crashes when playing. ok ok
Ms Pacman ok ok ok
Pacman ok ok ok
Robotron 2084 ok ok ok
Bally Midway
Spy Hunter ok ok (incorrect scrolling at high speed, though) ok (incorrect scrolling at high speed, though)
Tapper ok ok ok
Broderbund Software
Apple Panic ok ok ok
Championship Lode Runner by Broderbund ok ok ok
Loderunner by Broderbund ok ok ok
Serpentine ok ok ok
Data East / SNK / Quicksilver
Commando ok ok ok
Guerilla War ok ok ok
Ikari Warriors Works, with certain reservations. Hangs while booting ok
Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road ok ok ok
Karnov ok ok ok
Lock-On ok ok ok
Tag Team Wrestling ok ok ok
Dinamic
Game Over ok ok ok
Game Over 2 ok ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game) ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game)
Narco Police ok, but can't change to disk 2 ok ok
Phantis ok ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game) ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game)
Satan CGA ok ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game) ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game)
Satan EGA ok ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game) ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game)
Electronic Arts
Archon ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter ok
Boulder Dash 1 & 2 ok ok ok
Hard Hat Mack ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter ok
Julius Erwing and Larry Bird Go One-on-One ok Hangs while booting ok
Marble Madnes Works, keyboard locked when playing Hangs while booting, showing "0004:GG" ok
Murder on the Zinderneuf ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter ok
Music Construction Set ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter Crashes after opening screen
Pinball Construction Set ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter Crashes after opening screen
Seven Cities of Gold ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter ok
Mind Mirror ok Complains about missing IBM Color/graphics adapter ok
Epyx
Jumpman ok ok ok
Pitstop 2 ok ok ok
Spiderbot Works, crashes on F12 ok ok
Summer Games 2 ok crashes right after introscreen ok
The World's Greatest Baseball Game ok ok ok
Winter Games ok Hangs while booting ok
World Games ok crashes right after introscreen ok
World Karate Championship ok Game halts after introscreen, screen remains black ok
Funtastic
Big Top ok ok ok
Cosmic Crusader ok ok ok
Space Strike ok ok ok
IBM
3-K Trivia ok ok ok
Alley Cat ok ok ok
PC Pool Challenges ok ok ok
Shamus ok ok Hangs while booting
Trivia 101 ok Hangs while booting ok
TV and Cinema 101 ok Hangs while booting ok
Touchdown Football n/a Crashes when loading Crashes when loading.displaying 'TD'
Zyll ok ok ok
Infocom
Cutthroats ok ok ok
Deadline ok ok ok
Enchanter ok ok ok
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy ok ok ok
Planetfall ok ok ok
Seastalker ok ok ok
Suspended ok ok ok
The wittness ok ok ok
Zork 1 ok ok ok
Zork 2 ok ok ok
Zork 3 ok ok ok
Gamma Force: The Pit of a Thousand Screams ok ok ok
Lane Mastodon vs the Blubbermen ok ok ok
Zork Quest 1 ok ok ok
Zork Quest 2 ok ok ok
Mastertronic
Demon's Forge Bad file name on title screen Crashes when loading ok (graphics mixed-up in cga, tandy ok)
Five-a-side indoor soccer ok ok ok
Kobayashi Naru ok ok ok
Metropolis Crashes when loading Hangs at opening screen ok
Prowler ok ok ok
Rasterscan Works, crashes on F12 ok ok
Storm ok ok ok
The Slugger ok ok ok
Trilogy ok ok ok
Microprose
Conflict in Vietnam ok ok ok
Crusade in Europe ok ok ok
F-15 Strike Eagle CGA ok ok ok
F-15 Strike Eagle EGA ok ok ok
Hellcat Ace ok ok ok
Pirates! Disk IO Error 45 ok ok
Silent Service ok ok ok
Solo Flight ok ok ok
Spitfire Ace ok ok ok
Microsoft Series
Microsoft Adventure ok The first 3 characters are cut off ok
Microsoft Decathlon ok ok ok
Microsoft Flightsimulator 1.05 Crashes after choosing graphics, cga only hangs after a couple of seconds hangs even faster
Microsoft Flightsimulator 2.13 ok ok ok
Operasoft
Goody ok ok ok
The Last Mission Crashes after 5 seconds of play Crashes after 5 seconds of play ok
Livingstone 2 CGA works, EGA/VGA crashes on title screen ok ok
Orion Software
J-Bird ok Crashes when loading, garbled screen ok
Paratrooper ok ok ok
PC-Man Works, no sound ok ok
Sega
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom ok ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game) ok (use numeric keypad, joystick freezes game)
Congo Bongo ok ok ok
Frogger Works, crashes on ESC in Chooser ok ok
Frogger 2 ok ok ok
Zaxxon ok ok ok
Sierra
Adventure in Serenia ok ok ok
BC's Quest for Tires ok ok ok
The Black Cauldron Loading works until diskchange, but no further. ok ok
Donald Duck's Playground ok ok ok
KQ1 ibm ok ibm ok and tandy ok too ibm ok and tandy ok too
KQ2 Loading works until diskchange ok ok
Mineshaft ok ok ok
Oilswell ok ok ok
Championship Boxing ok ok ok
Troll's Tale ok ok ok
Ulysses and the Golden Fleece Crashes ok ok
Sir-Tech
Wizardry (original) Checks real drive B:, crashes big time... Halts showing the message: cant find system disk ok
Wiz 1 ok ok ok
Wiz 2 ok ok ok
Wiz 3 ok ok ok
Wiz 4 ok ok ok
Wiz 5 ok ok ok
Windmill Software
Conquest ok ok ok
Digger ok, cga only? ok ok
Rollo and the Brush Bros ok ok ok
Styx ok, cga only ok ok
Odds, Ends and Other Rarities
Dunzhin: Warrior of Ras Vol.I by CAU ok ok ok
Czorian Siege by CAU ok ok ok
Fleet Sweep by Mirror Images Software ok ok ok
Freddy Fish by Mirror Images Software ok ok ok
Montezuma's Revenge by Parker Brothers ok ok ok
Agent USA ok ok ok
Below the Root ok ok ok
Defender of the Crown EGA ok (cannot swap disks for ega, cga ok) ok ok
Cyborg ok ok ok
I, Damiano ok Hangs while booting, showing "Da" ok
PCJr
Cartridge Basic Hangs while booting
Crossfire ok
Exploring the IBM PCjr v1.1 Displays "Wrong computer."
IBM PCjr Colorpaint ok
King's Quest 1 ok
Lotus 1-2-3 Crashes with 'Illegal Call 7'
Mineshaft ok
Mouser ok
ScubaVenture ok
Touchdown Football ok