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First post, by truth_deleted

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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.
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    DosBox-Ascii.7z
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    DOSBox-Ascii files excluding executable
    File license
    Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 3 of 7, by truth_deleted

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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.

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