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DosBox Compatibility Thread (hell..it works^^)

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 4:31 pm | Post subject: DosBox Compatibility Thread (hell..it works^^)
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oi miracle^^

well, i tried the new version of dosbox..and YAY^^ it works just great.

now, since theres a onscreen keyboard,mousesupport ,hardware key work , landscape resize in lowres games (no nyditot 640*480 resize needed) you can start really testing the speed.

the first game i tried...was of course ...STUNTS XD
and it works great...well unplayable but who cares? it works ^^

well, you cant input anything in standartmode of dosbox for now, the main dos window still runs in 640*480. so you have to write a autoexec using the config file.

you can just mount you storage card as a harddrive and execute a game on it as i did with stunts.

the game runs at about 30-40% of the original speed (ingame,3d) and fullspeed in editor mode,menus etc. i think thats a great start.

ill test more games later =)


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 6:28 pm | Post subject:
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come on ^^ somebody say something or am in entertaining only myself here? XD

well..then ....something you maybe wanted to know : WARCRAFTworks fine in 320*240 landscape mode !!!...very smooth , a bit slow, but playable =) mouse works fine too.

i also tried worms (messed up mouse, cannot start a game) and doom (way too slow to play^^)


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 6:45 pm | Post subject:
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Shit, this thing is more capable than I thought! Got a link to the DosBox for PPC? Bit lazy at the moment, can't find anything obvious.

What device are you using?


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 6:52 pm | Post subject:
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http://mamaich.kasone.com/

asus a620 non bt (latest bt update^^) @ 530mhz

well,most of the games are only very laggy, smooth but slow. dont know but the frameskip funktion and the cpu cycle funktion is not working like it should . it would be much easyer to find the right values if there were toolbar buttons to change frameskip/cpucyles on the fly (like in the win version).

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 6:57 pm | Post subject:
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Can someone right a tutorial on how to get dosbox to actually run things? I can't even input stuff into dosbox.


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 7:05 pm | Post subject:
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1) download dosbox XD
2) extract it to your storage card

[warcraft sample]
3)make a new folder called "warcraft" on your storage card
4)copy all game files there

5)open dosbox.conf
6)

[...]
fullscreen=true
[...]
memsize=8 or 16 (depends on how much free mem you have)
[...]
frameskip=4 (well..find the fitting value yourself)
[...]
cycles=5000 (same as for frameskip, actual emulation speed results on how you set up frameskip and cycles i think)
[...]
(disable all sound devices,dont know if this improves emulation speed but theres no sound anyway)
nosound=false
[...]
mpu401=false
[...]
sblaster=false
[...]
gus=false
[...]
pcspeaker=false
[...]

7) well, still in the dosbox.conf , theres a section at the end called [autoexec] , since you can input anythin in 320*240 mode you have to write the game start sequence here, it should look like:

mount c "\Storage Card\WARCRAFT"
c:
WAR.EXE

Cool overclock, free as much mem as possible, run dosbox, wait, have fun(?) ... ^^

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 7:37 pm | Post subject:
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Damn, thats cool.


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:50 pm | Post subject:
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Anyone with a WM2002 device able to get this running at all? All I get is the waiting animation/icon and I have to reset.


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:04 pm | Post subject:
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Can anyone try the old Apogge game Secret Agent? Thats the only game I really care about playing on a ppc, i miss it so much :lol:

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:08 pm | Post subject:
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DAMN! Thats all I can say... Very Happy

We can just hope that there will be speed improvements, becouse now, it is only good for show-off. Wink

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:38 pm | Post subject:
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Can anyone try the old Apogge game Secret Agent? Thats the only game I really care about playing on a ppc, i miss it so much Laughing



well...ok^^ but its really weird...its slower than warcraft XD but playable too (speedwise) but unplayable because you cant see the keyboard when using 16 color mode =( but im sure this will be fixed soon.


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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:42 pm | Post subject:
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anyone tried command and conquer?

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:56 pm | Post subject:
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It's great to see this thing actually working!

However I can get Hero's Quest 1 (EGA version) and Space Quest 2 to work, but there's no virtual keyboard so I can't see where to press. The files are all in place... any suggestions?

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:02 pm | Post subject:
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So the keyboard missing is an ega problem? Hmm, time to try an MCGA game then...

Amyway, with speed improvement, key mapping and some fixes, this has a chance of becoming a very popular piece of software from an oldschool gamer's point of view that is...

sci adventures of sierra
apogee stuff (yes, secret agent, oooh, commander keen, aaah)
dune 2 (homer simpson drooling sound here)
snarf (does anybody even KNOW this game?!)
supaplex
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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:10 pm | Post subject:
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Sadly, I don't have warcraft 1 anymore, I threw out all my old dos stuff, WHAT A DRAG!!!! Sad

If anyone is interested, I located the free demo to Warcraft 1, as well as a good resource for other old DOS games:

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/140

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