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First post, by Raffaello

Posted on 2018-02-13, 11:17

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GUS emulation works fine on DosBox, but how is it possible to get a higher memory value for it?
If I try to set GUS as soundcard for Death Rally, I get this message:

"Warning: Death Rally needs 1024kb GUS memory in order to work correctly. Press any key to continue."

If I try to set GUS anyway and launch the game, DosBox gets stuck on "Loading music & effects, please wait..."

Does anyone have a clue about this? Thanks in advance!

Reply 1 of 2, by Scali

Posted on 2018-02-13, 11:25

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As far as I know, DOSBox always emulates a GUS with 1024kb. So the problem may be in how the game is trying to detect and use the memory. That is probably a bug in the DOSBox implementation of the GUS.

http://scalibq.wordpress.com/just-keeping-it- … ro-programming/

Reply 2 of 2, by Raffaello

Posted on 2018-02-13, 12:58

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Nevermind, I've fixed it. I didn't notice these two lines on my DosBox startup log:

"210" is not a valid value for variable: gusbase.
It might now be reset to the default value: 240

I've put 240 and everything works like a charm now. I guess that was just a warning by Death Rally, but it wasn't necessarily referring to a memory GUS issue.

Thanks anyway!

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