Right now I don't think there's really much in the way of SuperVGA emulation in DOSBox. You won't get it working in straight Windows either, as the game obviously wants to talk directly to the video card (and probably doesn't know how to talk to any made in the last 10+ years anyways).

I heard canadacow or someone had a custom build of DOSBox that emulated a different set of video hardware so that he could run Windows 3.x in 256 colors. You might try searching around the forums here for that and trying it.

Note that when running in emulators such as DOSBox, your real video card doesn't matter - what's important is what video card (if any) is being emulated.

Cool.

Thanks for the Info Hunter.

--Ben

HunterZ has old information...
There is 256 color support for Windows 3.x in CVS (using S3 drivers). You can try a CVS build and choose S3 (I have no idea whether it will work or not - CANADACOW targeted here Windows 3.x, not silly DOS games which ignored VESA standards - fortunately such games are quite rare).

Mirek

Okay.. cool. What is CVS?

And I think DOTU predated VESA standards more than it ignored them...

--Ben

CVS =~ A work-in-progress version of DOSBox => Can contain unexpected errors.

If you have to ask what CVS is, you should get it here:

http://cvscompile.aep-emu.de/dosbox.htm
http://rdu.dk/dosbox-cvs-builds

mirekluza: I looked through the CVS changelog and didn't see anthing about S3 or SVGA - I guess those went in a while ago.

benfinkel: Be sure to let us know whether or not you get it working. It'd sure be cool to see some of those Moraff games again - Steve Moraff's games were among the first SuperVGA games I played.

No luck yet.

I can get it going in regular VGA mode (16 color) but that's as good as it seems to get.

Ah well, thanks for the help guys!

--Ben

Ok there's a way to get it working!

I realize this post's from back in 2005. Oh well. The game was ludicrously old then too. I figure there must be at least one other dood that wants to run this game properly on modern hardware, eventually. It's still very fun.

1. go here:

DOSBox SVN Builds

2. proceed to http://ykhwong.x-y.net/cvs/frame.html, get ykhwong's CVS build (.65)

3. edit your dosbox.cnf and change the following line:

svgachipset=et4000new

This is the Tseng Labs et4000 new chipset.

4. run dungeons of the unforgiven normally in dosbox. Pick "A" and then "1" for the Tseng Labs video card.

5. ENJOY

I just tried this with DOSBox 0.74 and the config option you need has changed. I have just this in a config file and it works:

[dosbox]
machine=svga_et4000

When you run the game, this lets you choose graphics setting A 1 as the previous post mentions. I definitely recommend it, not only does it look better, it renders faster.