Re: Does DOSBox need a wiki system.

Posted on 2004-05-17, 09:53

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by voyageur

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To my opinion, it can be great! I solved some problems on some software (spamassassin for example) with help from great FAQs based on the wiki system And the wikipedia is quite interesting now, especially for terms hard to find in a standard encyclopedia (I don't think there's an entry for Megatokyo …

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Re: Gobliiins - Nothing

Posted on 2004-04-21, 22:47

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No problem at all with my copy of Gobliins 1 and dosbox 0.61, no extra config (5000 cycles, no frameskip, ems and xms do not matter, ...). Maybe there's a problem with your copy? (gobliins readme file says version 1.000 9/11/92 DOS)

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Re: Privateer problem....

Posted on 2004-04-15, 15:16

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Yes, that happens on some games, where you have to use the 'real' + key on your keyboard, and not the key to the left of the backspace (where the + is on a US keyboard). My tactic is to switch the keyboard layout when playing in dosbox: on windows, there's a keyboard layout interface, on linux I use …

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Re: Privateer problem....

Posted on 2004-04-14, 09:59

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Or wait for the next release ;) I am currently playing privateer with dosbox cvs on my athlon 900Mhz, at around 5500-6000 cycles, frameskip 1-3 (depending on how busy my computer is). It could be smoothier I guess, but it's quite playable and there's almost no sound stutter. But it was really slow …

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Re: Wing Commander 2 drops out to prompt on Series 8, Mission A

Posted on 2004-04-11, 12:05

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Hum, that's strange, I played the entire game recently (after the loadfix trick was mentioned :) ), and again mission 8 a now, and I never had this kind of problems... When you get back to the Concordia in this mission, she is under attack from "Grikath" enemy heavy fighters. I guess the data for …

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Re: Hi guys, here's second joystick handling,

Posted on 2004-04-05, 21:55

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It's a patch against dosbox sources On unixes it can be applied with "patch -p1 < wherethefileis/joypatch.diff" in the dosbox source directory; don't know how you do it on windows though (does visual studio like unix diff files?)

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Inca 2

Posted on 2004-04-02, 17:00

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Well it is reported in the game compatibility database as a supported game, but someone noted that it didn't work... So I gave it a try myself: I couldn't get it to work either :depressed: I have version: 1.000 INCA 2 Floppy March 18, 1994 tried on dosbox 0.61 with various settings (ems, xms, ...) …

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Re: Privateer No CD error on WinXP

Posted on 2004-03-31, 19:14

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I have binaries of both 0.61 and CVS compiled with the same flags. Privateer runs a lot lot lot faster on the CVS version (and is playable on my box!) compared to 0.61. So the speedup is not related to the way dosbox is compiled (or some changes allowed gcc to do some more optimisations 😉 )

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Re: Hi guys, here's second joystick handling,

Posted on 2004-03-31, 10:07

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Looks like promising! Recompilation is on the way, I hope soon my good old Sidewinder will be more than a 2-buttons stick in Dosbox :happyhappy: Here's the patch I generated from your tree (the original one had .orig extensions in orig folder, and I think was reversed ;) ). I removed all .orig …

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Re: sound stuttering

Posted on 2004-03-28, 16:24

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Hum, that's strange, everyone who was complaining about sound stuttering was on linux systems (I think). Don't know if it can help for windows version though.

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Re: Privateer buggy keyboard?

Posted on 2004-03-28, 16:17

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Well bad news: I didn't find a something-to-joy converter :/ But, I recently tried a joystick-to-usb converter (it's been quite a long time since the last time I tried), and I cant get it recognized without any difficulties now! Don't know when the needed driver was introduced in the linux kernel …

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Re: Sound is not continious - could be a thread priority problem?

Posted on 2004-03-28, 09:30

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After some googling, it looks like "SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dma" is a fix when all SDL games have sound stuttering problems... However I personnaly only have the problem in dosbox; I'll see and check out if this works for me!

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Re: Sound is not continious - could be a thread priority problem?

Posted on 2004-03-22, 23:00

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Damn I was sure I had logged in before replying... Anyway last post is from me 😁

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Re: sound stuttering

Posted on 2004-03-22, 12:43

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I can testify, removing these 3 lines did some miracles on my linux box 😀 I haven't tried any other solutions since (when it works, don't change anything anymore!)

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Re: Sound is not continious - could be a thread priority problem?

Posted on 2004-03-22, 12:30

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Everything works fine for me on my 2.6.4 kernel by commenting out the 3 mentioned lines in src/hardware/mixer.cpp. I didn't tried the fps patch though. Btw, I have a mixer setting of 2048, frameskip at 1 (sometimes 0), cycles between 5000 and 6500 (depends on the game). I don't know what is 2nd …

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Re: Privateer 2: The Darkening - Problems

Posted on 2004-03-19, 23:25

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You're welcome, sorry it didn't help. However it's strange that you can't get it to run, while Sarky in the games database reported that it worked perfectly. Something related to your hardware then? (too fast CD-rom player, ...)

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Re: Privateer buggy keyboard?

Posted on 2004-03-19, 23:19

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Indeed it could have been a problem since the beginning (I only played it on my old PC with a joystick)... But it makes the game really harder 🙁 I'll do some goggling too, who knows there may be another solution/fix!

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Re: Privateer 2: The Darkening - Problems

Posted on 2004-03-19, 18:45

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Hum conventional memory problem... Have you tried using loadfix?

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Re: Privateer buggy keyboard?

Posted on 2004-03-19, 17:27

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Hum if it's related to framerate, it will be quite hard for my athlon :( The mouse is working (more or less), but it's hard to stop the ship moving: in WC2, there is a mouse pointer that more or less represented a virtual joystick position, which isn't in Privateer, hence making the game unplayable …

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Re: Privateer buggy keyboard?

Posted on 2004-03-19, 11:22

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Robertmo, I totally agree with you, but sometimes you don't have the choice... I had a laptop for 3 years now, which works quite well, but doesn't have a joystick port... A friend lent me his joystick/usb converter, but I couldn't get it to work on linux (and it couldn't work with all the triggers …

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