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Control cycles inside dosbox?

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First post, by theelf

Posted on 2014-04-15, 12:18

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Hi!!

Any idea if is possible to control cycles inside dosbox? I mean, from a batch file for example

I made a very good configuration, with a fixed cycles of 6000, and most games run well, but some of them, need at least 19000 to be fluid

For example, Black Stone. For this game if i can do a batch file like this

1cycles=19000
2bstone
3cycles=6000

it will be perfect..... use more cycles for the game, and came back to normal after play..

any ideas?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

Posted on 2014-04-15, 12:29

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did you try it ?

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Reply 2 of 3, by theelf

Posted on 2014-04-15, 13:07

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yes, i tried all combinations, no luck, cycles never change

Thanks

EDIT: Ok, when you say "did you try it ?" I was thinking like "mm... i cant be so idiot.. 😊 " and i tried again, but I was right not luck...

Then i downloaded official dosbox, and "cycles=" works......... 😵

The problem is that i have the PC connected to a CRT at 15khz, and because of this I use a custom build, to fix all output to NTSC
And, in the build I use, the command dont work, if I write "cycles=" nothing happen

Is my fault, since in official dosbox works, i need to check what happen in the custom build

Just because i always use the custom version, I did not realize of this

Thanks again, sorry

Reply 3 of 3, by VileR

Posted on 2014-04-19, 11:35

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What is this custom NTSC build? are the patch & binary available?
Also, alternative approaches which may or may not work in that build:

cycles 19000 (without the "=")
cycles fixed 19000
config -set cycles=fixed 19000

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