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DOSBox .60 + TextMode Graphics

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First post, by truth_deleted

Posted on 2013-06-27, 07:13

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There is a text-based graphics mode for DOSBox. It is based on winconaa:
http://jstanley.pingerthinger.com/winconaa.html

It may help your framerates on a slow computer!

The required files are the dosbox.exe executable from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.60/
(download Dosbox0.60-win32-installer.exe)

And the files contained in the attached ZIP file. Place these files in a folder. To run in text mode, just run the batch file named DOSBox-Ascii.bat. If dosbox.exe is run instead, then it will run in normal graphics mode. Edit dosbox.conf to run a game automatically. This is done by the mount command and then lines such as this:
cd spear
sod.exe

Don't forget to turn anti-aliasing to maximum.
😀

Reply 1 of 7, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2013-06-27, 12:45

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Will this work with current version 0.74, too?

Klimawandel.

Reply 2 of 7, by collector

Posted on 2013-06-27, 15:21

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Why 0.60?

The Sierra Help Pages -- New Sierra Game Installers -- Sierra Game Patches -- New Non-Sierra Game Installers

Reply 3 of 7, by truth_deleted

Posted on 2013-06-27, 18:38

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IIGS_User wrote:
Will this work with current version 0.74, too?

collector wrote:
Why 0.60?

This "winconaa" patch is for SDL 2.0.6 (2003), although it may be possible to edit the patch for a newer SDL version. Unfortunately, the recent DOSBox version (SVN) called a function not available in this older SDL distribution. Therefore, I picked a 2003 version of DOSBox to pair with this SDL. I didn't yet test whether this setup would work with DOSBox from 2005 or 2006, for instance.

There is a similar driver for Linux, AALIB. If there was a higher proportion of Linux users, then this would be a viable and interesting adaptation to DOSBox, especially because it is a more fully featured driver than the above. I think it could be used in practice rather than as a novelty.

Reply 4 of 7, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-06-27, 19:40

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Does it work in a telnet window?

Reply 5 of 7, by truth_deleted

Posted on 2013-06-27, 20:52

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Jorpho wrote:
Does it work in a telnet window?

The SDL video driver is bound to the console, so it wouldn't work remotely over telnet. However, an X session may remotely carry an SDL application as this one.

Reply 6 of 7, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-06-27, 20:57

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Sure, but it could do the same with ordinary DOSBox, if I'm not mistaken.

Reply 7 of 7, by truth_deleted

Posted on 2013-06-28, 07:48

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Jorpho wrote:
Sure, but it could do the same with ordinary DOSBox, if I'm not mistaken.

That's true. I also am not familiar with the SDL_net library. Perhaps there is an easy method to forward the text output to a specific client.

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