| Subject | : | DosBox/2 is cool! |
| Author | : | cytan |
| Date | : | 24 Feb, 2005 on 00:48 |
| I just tried DosBox/2 alpha on a few games, and for the first time after I upgraded to an OS/2 box with a PCI soundcard, I get sound in DOS games. Wow! cytan |
| Subject | : | Re:DosBox/2 is cool! |
| Author | : | cyberspittle cyberspittle@yahoo.com |
| Date | : | 24 Feb, 2005 on 21:38 |
I'll have to try it out myself. As I have missed out on DOS game sound support since upgrading to a Cirrus Logic (Crystal) based Hercules 7.1 sound card. Time to fire up Quake again and let the good times roll! ![]() |
| Subject | : | Re:DosBox/2 is cool! |
| Author | : | ChrisR roossien@gmail.com |
| Date | : | 27 Feb, 2005 on 01:44 |
Yep, it works great with the old adventures and with sound.. thats the most important issue.. ![]() Tho.. I was a bit surprised seeing DOSbox being ported because we do have a great DOS VDM...... only thing missing is a VDD that emulates a soundblaster.. I was thinking about this a lot.. if only I had more time.. tho I did never write a VDD before.. I did create some OS/2 drivers.. .. disassembling the SBEINIT.COM and trying to convert it into a VDD.. .. hmmm.. now we have DOSbox.. thats great!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately there is almost no ducumentation about the eCS version.. Don't know yet if the GUS is supported.. I did read on the windoze FAQ pages it needs the GUS drivers ect.. downloaded it... but not installed it yet.. The win version uses a dosbox.conf file .. wonders if the eCS version has this option.. don't know yet what to put in this file.. well... needs a lot of experimenting.. ![]() The win version also has several command line options.. and one of them is to give a full path name to a 'game'.. then it mounts and play this game.. don't work with the eCS version .. at least not with me.. These things are important somehow to create icons and do the mounting and executing automatic.. Anyway.. its still alpha.. so a little patient.. .. .. pom pom pom.. tra la la.. .. One thing is realy nice... play games in a window... (I didn't even try full screen yet)... I realy wish I had more time.. ......... but I want to play my old adventures again... ......... and I can...... with sound......... I'm happy........ |
| Subject | : | Re:DosBox/2 is cool! |
| Author | : | ChrisR roossien@gmail.com |
| Date | : | 27 Feb, 2005 on 12:03 |
| Yep, a dosbox.conf file is supported and automatic executed at start.. There is a command in dosbox to create a default dosbox.conf config -writeconf [path to dosbox\]dosbox.conf Of course this drive (path to dosbox) has to be mounted. After this its easy to edit and modify it, there is some explanation inside.. The most important is the autoexec part, there you can mount all the needed drives and CDrom(s).. just the way ' normal' DOS see it, so there is no need to reinstalll / reconfigure games ![]() There is one important thing I noticed.. mounting a drive like it say in the windoze FAQ like this ; mount c "c:\" Does work... but its impossible to go into subdirs... Mounting like this ; mount c: c: mount c c: mount c "c:/" Alll do work.. So.. actually the slash is unix like.. Finally.. this is how my dosbox.conf looks like.. ; [sdl] fullscreen=false [dosbox] language= [render] frameskip=0 [cpu] core=normal [mixer] nosound=false [midi] mpu401=true [sblaster] type=sb16 [gus] gus=true [speaker] pcspeaker=true [bios]
xms=true [directserial] directserial=false [autoexec] |
| Subject | : | Re:DosBox/2 is cool! Stuck at 640x480 |
| Author | : | cytan |
| Date | : | 28 Feb, 2005 on 16:17 |
| Hi, I think this may be a problem with the ATI 9000 series and ATI mobility series (on T30) chipsets. I just need to confirm this. I cannot get SVGA (800x600) at all in a DOS box or DosBox/2 either in a window on a desktop or in fullscreen. Is this true for other chipsets? I'm using the latest SNAP drivers and ECS 1.2. Thanks for any info. cytan |
| Subject | : | Re:DosBox/2 is cool! |
| Author | : | BlueWarper bluewarper@yahoo.it |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 17:00 |
| Hi All! This is my first post to OS2World Forum, though i've been reading it for years! Just a tip about DOSBox. (I downloaded alpha7, and I gave it a try. It looks VERY promising). Since it is based on SDL Library, you can switch between Window/Fullscreen by means of the usual SDL combo ALT+Home. ALT+End will terminate the session (SIG break, I think). Bye |
| Subject | : | DosBox/2 is cool! |
| Author | : | Fudeba daniel@caetano.eng.br |
| Date | : | 06 Mar, 2005 on 01:59 |
| Any tip on running the Debug version? I tried it with different TERM settings (SET TERM=OS2, SET TERM=ANSI...) but none worked. The debug version of DosBox/2 continues compaining about "unable to open TERM"... \^= Anyway, the Alpha7 is working great and I was able to run it even at 45000 cycles using the "dynamic" emulation, which is pretty fast! Most old games run smoothly on my Athlon 2600+! Great job! |