Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-08-31, 18:26
Byt the way, when will this get into the real DosBOX, so that we don't need to patch anymore? Is it in the CVS yet? I have submitted the bugreport, but haven't gotten a response yet.
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-08-11, 08:54
No, actually. But I've just tried it now. The result is that Dosbox crashes when starting a table...
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-08-10, 23:12
You need the source for this (you can download it). You will also need a C(++) compiler. But judging by your question, I think you will have trouble setting that up, it's kind of complicated. You could also arrange someone to make a custom build for you. I don't have Windows, so I can't help you. …
Re: Pinball Enhancement Pack for dosbox
Posted on 2006-07-27, 23:41
BTW, you don't have to try real hard to fix this issue for me. I can live with it as it is. I just thought I'd mention the bug. Also, I prefer to run one dosbox, installed by my package manager. Having a seperate pinball dosbox binary is something I'd rather not have.
Re: Pinball Enhancement Pack for dosbox
Posted on 2006-07-27, 23:32
I can code, but only in high level languages (Java, Ruby, SQL). I have no/hardly any experience with C(++), bytecode, (dis)assemblers or other low level stuff. Hacking dosbox is somewhat out of my league...
Re: Pinball Enhancement Pack for dosbox
Posted on 2006-07-27, 23:13
Well, there is this bug in Pinball Psycho. Or, at least I think it's a bug. When you start a table, you have one extra ball sidelight lit. When you're out of balls (or quit) and start again, you don't have this extra ball lit anymore. You have to start and quit a different table first. The main …
Re: Pinball Enhancement Pack for dosbox
Posted on 2006-07-27, 18:34
There is a problem with such a patch set; people would have to install a second dosbox. And, installing in Linux distro's becomes difficult, since they will (probably) not include a seperate package for pinball-dosbox. In other words, maintaning it, source and compiled binaries, is quite difficult. …
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-27, 08:58
OK, I'll make a bug report about the tilt issue. The hacks issue we'd better suggest in the other thread. So, let me continue in the other thread.
Re: Pinball Fantasies no-scroll patch for dosbox 0.65
Posted on 2006-07-27, 08:58
From the tilt issue thread (continued here): What else would you suggest for pinball enhancement? I thought about faking multiball but it seems to be too hard to do. But not impossible. When we are playing between the software and the hardware that it expects to be running on, we can trick it with a …
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-27, 00:47
We could try to search for signatures of the respective games in know emulated memory positions. Thats idea is similar to simple virus detection algorithms. Indeed, its not enough to rename a virus file because the antivirus continues to detect it That would require making signatures/hashes of all …
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-26, 22:37
BTW, what I said about it not filling the screen vertically, I didn't remember correctly that normally, it doesn't do this either. So, there is no problem there.
Re: Pinball Fantasies no-scroll patch for dosbox 0.65
Posted on 2006-07-26, 22:31
Felipe, a quote from me from another thread : Perhaps this patch can be extended so that it checks for the presence of psycho pinball in memory. A dirty hack would be to check if the executable name is _P_.EXE. This was (and perhaps is) a trick done by a lot of graphics drivers, which employ game …
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-26, 20:12
Haha, the table looks very weird like this, but I guess it's correct :). It does however, also decrease in vertical size now. Is there is no way to do it by tweaking the config file? And, shouldn't this doublewidth issue be solved in general? I mean, would dosbox be able to detect that it shouldn't …
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-26, 19:57
Perhaps that's why my ball looks like an american football. Also, in DOS, the screen was much more narrow; it wasn't filled horizontally. How does one accomplish correct geometry in Dosbox with psycho pinball?
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-26, 19:39
In 0.65, it's line 645. The variables scalew and scaleh are not defined anymore. I commented them out, and the patch still works. I also wouldn't know why you'd wanna override the scaling. When tilting now, you can see the top of the table at the bottom :) Perhaps this patch can be extended so that …
Re: Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-04, 10:35
Hmm, that probably means there is no fix for it, is there? BTW, when I still had win98, I could play psycho pinball on this monitor, including the vertical tilt. It didn't modeswitch or whatever (which is notable by a blackout), and if I remember correctly, even a change in screen position would …
Psycho pinball vertical tilt
Posted on 2006-07-03, 22:50
Hi, Psycho Pinball works almost perfectly in Dosbox, but I have this very annoying problem with the vertical tilt. Whenever I press space (to tilt), the screen currupts a bit, and most importantly, it releases all my pressed keys, including the tilt itself, meaning you can't tilt very high. This …
Re: Fullscreen with fixed resolution
Posted on 2006-06-16, 14:51
complain to the debian devs about it (if you want to risk your life). Dosbox 0.65 is so much better.
Re: Fullscreen with fixed resolution
Posted on 2006-06-16, 09:03
I only install software on my Linux box using the package manager (my distro is Gentoo, so the package manager is Portage). This makes sure everything is installed correctly, and can be upgraded/removed as well without problems. This is highly recommended behaviour for any Linux distro. But anyway, …
Re: Fullscreen with fixed resolution
Posted on 2006-06-15, 09:25
It would seem a change in my system coincided with the upgrade to dosbox 0.65, I can't get it to work with 0.63 anymore either. A while ago, when I upgraded to the new Linux NVidia driver, a lot of strange resolution and refreshrate problems began to appear. I thought the Dosbox problems happened …
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