soo, mouse works fine with official svn but black with taewoongs built?

Dominus wrote:

soo, mouse works fine with official svn but black with taewoongs built?

Pretty much. I mainly use taewoong's for 3DFx games (Tomb Raider Gold being the only one right now.)

So, there are two things to do:
- report the games that die after some minutes with normal Dosbox SVN - best check against 0.74 whether the problems were there as well. Also mention where you got the svn build from.
This is the most important thing which you should have done right away. The devs need to know such things.

- contact taewoong that his built screws up the mouse pointer in Windows 3.x and s3 mode

Dominus wrote:

So, there are two things to do: - report the games that die after some minutes with normal Dosbox SVN - best check against 0.74 […]
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So, there are two things to do:
- report the games that die after some minutes with normal Dosbox SVN - best check against 0.74 whether the problems were there as well. Also mention where you got the svn build from.
This is the most important thing which you should have done right away. The devs need to know such things.

- contact taewoong that his built screws up the mouse pointer in Windows 3.x and s3 mode

Well, I figured out the problem with the games crashing.... They are all QuickTime games, and going through your guide to refresh my memory, I re-read about not using stock .74 and getting the SVN. I'm getting a newer SVN (from your link to be precise,) because I don't think I've updated mine in quite a while. Not since CGA Composite mode was integrated I believe. I'll also download the latest Daum and try that. I had assumed that I had done something wrong somewhere.....

Testing....Testing.... OK, the new SVN no longer crashes my games, but the latest Daum still has black box instead of the mouse. Also made another discovery, going to change to different S3 drivers, because for some reason, in my high color game the S3 gives some rather weird color pixilation. It does this in both the SVN and in Daum. It isn't so bad if I lower from 24 to 16 bit color, but its still there. Going to cycle through different versions of the driver and see if any of them help. Also sending Daum a message about the mouse.

Yes the high color modes are broken on OS X. I made bug reports about that about 50 years ago 😉

Well Ack!!! The "minor" pixilation issue is present in all drivers. I think it's a problem in the game itself. The major problem only occurs when I'm in true color (24 bit) mode, and the game manual actually states that there will be graphic anomalies in true color mode on some cards, and to just drop it down to 16 bit mode.

The black box mouse has completely disappeared on me. It's working great now for some reason... The only thing I did was drop the vram size from 8 (max) to 2 (max the drivers can actually take advantage of,) and turned on aspect ratio (so it wouldn't stretch the image to the full 1366 width.) I've tried and tried (even changing those values back,) to get the black box back (for troubleshooting purposes,) and I still keep my mouse pointer.... go figure.

The joys of Windows 3.11 😉
I don't know how much time I spent reinstalling that beast decades ago...

Well, I have it finalized finally. Everything seems to work just great in both DOSBox versions (main & daum.) Though, it seems as if Daum runs a little smoother/faster. Not sure.