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Getting Magic Carpet CD version running in dosbox on Linux

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First post, by pth

Posted on 2012-11-20, 13:47

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I've bought Magic Carpet from gog.com and thought I'd try getting it to run in a dosbox under Linux, more specifically openSUSE 12.2. While the game itself runs, sound is choppy and only keyboard works as it should. Mouse buttons work but as soon as you move the mouse the screen starts spinning and won't stop until you die.

How can I possibly get this to work as it does under windows?

Phil

Reply 1 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2012-11-20, 16:32

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The obvious question is, are you using the latest version of DOSBox?

I'm also wondering if your video card drivers are up to date.

Reply 2 of 3, by pth

Posted on 2012-11-20, 17:05

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openSUSE like RedHat uses dosbox-0.74, i.e. the latest released version.

And what please do sound and mouse support have to do with the graphics driver? Graphics work perfectly OK besides the fact that I can't switch to fullscreen but that might be caused by SDL not coping with my unusual setup as I have my desktop spread over three monitors, two hooked to a Nvidia GTX 480 and one hooked to an 7600 GT.

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Posted on 2012-11-20, 17:31

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pth wrote:
And what please do sound and mouse support have to do with the graphics driver?

Linux is full of delightfully mysterious surprises. 😅

Graphics work perfectly OK besides the fact that I can't switch to fullscreen but that might be caused by SDL not coping with my unusual setup as I have my desktop spread over three monitors, two hooked to a Nvidia GTX 480 and one hooked to an 7600 GT.

SDL not coping could cause any number of problems, I would think. Unless someone has a better idea, then as a troubleshooting measure, why not try running DOSBox with just one monitor and one active graphics card?

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