Re: Regression in CVS (configuration program of microprose adventures)

Posted on 2006-02-16, 21:24

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Don't know if this is related, but I saw something similar with Mixed-Up Mother Goose SCI VGA; The game somehow also reports 0k free disk space and therefore cannot be started. It works in ntvdm though. Well, I tried the floppy version of MG VGA , and it works fine with speech and all. Under …

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Regression in CVS (configuration program of microprose adventures)

Posted on 2006-02-15, 23:14

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In the the CVS builds (earliest that was tested is from July 3 2005 and latest is from February 1 2006), when you start the hardware configuration from the INSTALL.EXE menu in the three Microprose adventures (Return of the Phantom, Rex Nebular, Dragonsphere), the program will freeze (although not …

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-11, 16:40

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1. mouse: a) try the mouse driver from here: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=8497&highlight=mouse b) or try ctmouse http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/ Heh, those two worked even worse than TRMosue... MOUSE.COM even caused these peculiar palettes in QFG3 EGA graphics: http://img99.imageshack.us …

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-08, 22:03

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for hdd boot you HAVE to set xms and ems to false in dosbox.conf. And you have to add Device=himem.sys to config.sys. You can even write Device=himem.sys /testmem:off to speed things up (you need to pint eh line to the actual location of himem.sys though) Yeah, I finally set ems and xms to false, …

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-06, 22:36

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Thanx, HunterZ. It worked. But now when the HD boots, I get: ERROR: No available extended memory was found. XMS Driver not installed. Is there something I can do? Like add parameters to the HIMEM.SYS line or to DOSBox? I already have xms=true in DOSBOX.CONF...

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-06, 22:20

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http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7260 Thank you for this link. I believe it brings me closer to my cause. Ok, I now have a bootable HD image that works under DOSBox. However, to run this game (and probably others) I need some DOS files on this HD. For starters, I'll need the HIMEM.SYS and …

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-05, 22:31

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What do you mean "install"? Like to a directory on my real HD which is mounted as C: under DOSBox? And where will the boot sector will be written? And even if it works, how will I mount the directory that contains TBRA afterwards?

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Re: QFG3 (and general Sierra issues)

Posted on 2006-02-04, 16:47

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I found that if you reduce the CPU usage to the minimum in VDMSound (found under the Performance tab), the "unable to initialize your audio hardware" message will not appear, but the lightning will be displayed for a very brief second. Not much help there, then. Note: for some reason, If "Remember …

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"emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-04, 16:30

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I've noticed that the new CVS build supports the mouse cursor of The Big Red Adventure, so I wanted to run the game. The game runs fine, but there are severe sound problems, especially when speech is played in the intro. In addition, if the floppy version of the game is the one used, DOSBox always …

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Re: PCjr emulation (CVS)

Posted on 2006-01-29, 22:34

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Thank you all for the information. Very interesting. I was always curious about the PCjr, I mean, an IBM PC that supports cartridge games (and possibly even analog cassette games?!?), that's just odd! And weirder than that, some of the PCjr's didn't even have a floppy drive, so the only way to run …

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Re: QFG3 (and general Sierra issues)

Posted on 2006-01-29, 22:02

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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean the VDMSound configuration? I'm not yet very familiar with those. Can you give an example?

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Re: QFG3 (and general Sierra issues)

Posted on 2006-01-28, 14:16

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This was actually the first time I used VDMSound, and I was very dissapointed that the game still suffered the "Uanble to initialize your audio hardware" glitch while using it.

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PCjr emulation (CVS)

Posted on 2006-01-22, 23:54

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DOSBox CVS now emulates the PCjr, which is great because I can finally run all those PCjr images that sat around on my harddrive for years :happyhappy: (hard to believe that this is the first PCjr emulator... or did I miss one?) Anyway, since I've never even seen a real PCjr, here are a few tidbits …

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Re: QFG3 (and general Sierra issues)

Posted on 2006-01-21, 14:40

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I also tried using VDMSound to test this, but for some reason I keep getting the message "Unable to initialize your audio hardware", even after using GOSiERRA. Very weird. Then again, I never used VDMSound before, so I don't know...

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Re: QFG3 (and general Sierra issues)

Posted on 2006-01-20, 22:40

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Well, the problem does seem to be related to sound, because if you configure the game to not play sound effects the lightning will be displayed, and for the correct amount of time. I tried many types of patches but they did not help. So, I performed a test on an older computer (P2 350MHz) that has a …

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QFG3 (and general Sierra issues)

Posted on 2006-01-16, 22:41

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In the title screen of QFG3, a lightning is supposed to hit the Hero's sword, as seen in this screenshot: http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/3230/qfg3gamenew29jl.png But under DOSBox, this lightning is totally missing if the CPU Cycles are set to the default of 3000. If you increase the cycles to …

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Re: 40 Column Text Mode Issues

Posted on 2005-12-18, 15:33

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I looked at the CVS ChangeLog and I noticed quite a few PCJr updates. Is the PCJr emulation already active in the CVS? If it is, what should be written in the machine= line to activate it? I tried machine=pcjr and machine=jr but got nothing. Hmm there were some changes to those things. I think wd is …

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Re: 40 Column Text Mode Issues

Posted on 2005-12-14, 22:40

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What's there to say about it? AGI games shake the screen, yeah. SQ2 shakes the screen on EGA and CGA when you get knocked out after boarding the shuttle; same with KQ3, I suppose. Well, what I wanted to know is if DOSBox emulates it, because I didn't see it happen in KQ3. I tested the CVS that was …

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Re: 40 Column Text Mode Issues

Posted on 2005-12-08, 21:42

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All seventeen pages of it? I never thought I would get five responses when I made the first post three months ago. That's because each time the thread becomes silent for a few days, I post a new message that keeps it alive for weeks :happyhappy: By the way, how were you able to produce this …

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Re: 40 Column Text Mode Issues

Posted on 2005-11-25, 16:49

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> Well, it's not really a shame, it's just that other than this small problem > DOSBox provides an almost perfect Tandy emulation (at least for the > games I'm playing). Well then get it fixed and submit the patch. Just as easy as that. If I were a programmer, I'd be happy to write patches for …

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