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[Geca]

My tests with DOSBOX at default 500 mhz:


I've tested DIV GAMES STUDIO 2 and it work and compile games!!!
The perfomance is aceptable.

http://img200.imageshack.us/i/imag1557.jpg/

http://img683.imageshack.us/i/imag1554.jpg/

But the DIV2 games don't have the same luck, they run at 1,2 frames per second, they are not playable of course...

http://img713.imageshack.us/i/imag1540.jpg/

http://img607.imageshack.us/i/imag1560v.jpg/

[Esn]

Seriously, Keen 5 is pretty much unplayable for me at 500-600Mhz, so either I have extremely high standards, or I'm doing something wrong. If anyone feels that they got the last 3 Keen games working perfectly at that speed, I'd really appreciate it if you could upload your .conf file somewhere so I could see what you did.

Edited by Esn, 08 March 2011 - 12:45 AM.

[Esn]

I've added a "known bugs and how to fix them" section to the wiki article on DOSBox:
http://pandorawiki.org/DOSBox#Known_bugs_and_how_to_fix_them

I encourage anyone to contribute if they find any more.

[Esn]

Prometheus reported a while back that DOSBox used to run much faster in either HotFix 3 or 4. (link) Anyone know why that might be the case?

[skeezix]

I am surprised. Should be no slowdowns, esp for SDL apps.

We are looking into a couple oddities that seem to have popped up (but make no sense why), so who knows..

jeff

[ldaneels]

I am drooling over the prospect of playing Might & Magic III & Amberstar, but I cannot get the emu to find the game directories. I have followed to the letter the instructions on the Pandora Wiki, but no dice...
One thing that bugs me is that it says that DboxFE is included with the download, but I only have dosbox.pnd.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Alerino]

I am drooling over the prospect of playing Might & Magic III & Amberstar, but I cannot get the emu to find the game directories. I have followed to the letter the instructions on the Pandora Wiki, but no dice...
One thing that bugs me is that it says that DboxFE is included with the download, but I only have dosbox.pnd.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

create a dos folder in your sd card root, put M&M folder there inside.

1) open dosbox
2) mount your dos folder as your C: (HD Dos disk) - iirc 'mount c /media/yoursdcard/dos'
3) c: (enter your "hard disk"
4) cd might... (press TAB - Fn+space), it will autocomplete
5) find the executable (dir/p will list the files, page by page, look for .exe, .com or .bat)
6) run the file (just type 'sierra.bat', 'indy256.exe', something like that

[ldaneels]

hmmm, still no luck. I can't seem to type ':' in dosbox (works fine in other apps).
Here is what I did:
- created the dos folder in the root of my SD card, put the MM3 folder in it
- launched dosbox
- type 'mount c /media/mmcblk0p1/dos'
At that point it says drive C already mounted with local directory games/ (when I launch dosbox, it autotypes mount c games).
Any idea how to go around this (unmount the drive, change the autotype string, locate the local directory games,...).
Also, how can you type ':' in dosbox ?
Any idea where I could get the package with dboxfe ?
Thanks in advance

Edited by ldaneels, 01 June 2011 - 06:12 AM.

[zapman]

hmmm, still no luck. I can't seem to type ':' in dosbox (works fine in other apps).
Here is what I did:
- created the dos folder in the root of my SD card, put the MM3 folder in it
- launched dosbox
- type 'mount c /media/mmcblk0p1/dos'
At that point it says drive C already mounted with local directory games/ (when I launch dosbox, it autotypes mount c games).
Any idea how to go around this (unmount the drive, change the autotype string, locate the local directory games,...).
Also, how can you type ':' in dosbox ?
Any idea where I could get the package with dboxfe ?
Thanks in advance

typing : in the dos command line doesn't really work well so it's best to use the gui front end and set the drive parameters there. get it from http://dl.openhandhe....cgi?0,0,0,0,72 for example. more details on dosbox can be found here.

EDIT: for playing Amberstar, I would advise you to use the Amiga version instead!! It's got nicer graphics, better music and the emulator runs _fullscreen_ (I don't mind the stretching with RPGs) with 100% speed! What a wonderful game that was
Get UAE4all from repo.openpandora.org

Edited by zapman, 01 June 2011 - 08:27 AM.

[ldaneels]

ok, I must be missing something, but the frontend is not included in the download (there is only dosbox.pnd). Or maybe it is already included, but I don't know how to launch it...
Could you point me to a link that includes the frontend ?
Thanks for all the help.

[Pickle]

ok, I must be missing something, but the frontend is not included in the download (there is only dosbox.pnd). Or maybe it is already included, but I don't know how to launch it...
Could you point me to a link that includes the frontend ?
Thanks for all the help.

Both the frontend dboxfe and dosbox are in the dosbox.pnd. No matter if your using minimenu or xfce there should be 2 menu items loaded, look for the dosbox icon.

[ldaneels]

I finally got might & magic III to work. I have been waiting for a very long time for a handheld on which I could play PC RPGs.
Thanks for all the help

[Esn]

One thing that bugs me is that it says that DboxFE is included with the download, but I only have dosbox.pnd.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the tutorial on the wiki. Please tell me if you managed to find dboxfe in the end, and if so, why you didn't see it the first time. Maybe the wording can be changed to make it clearer in some way.

PNDs can contain more than one "program", so dboxfe should have been in the start menu (emulator) along with dosbox.

As for playing Amberstar, if you check the UAE4All thread in the beta section, you'll see that I have a long discussion about getting Dragonflight to work that I think will also apply to Amberstar. Basically, I'm waiting until john4p adds a "numpad mode" for the d-pad, because currently you can't move diagonally, so playing the game is a bit awkward. You should also use the alternate "nubs" version of UAE4All to play it, so that you can use the nubs to move the mouse.

Edited by Esn, 02 June 2011 - 05:41 AM.

[fusion_power]

Download doesn't work.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,54
file doesn't exist. And in the Apps site there seems to be an older version of Dosbox. Where can I get the latest version? It is still not in the Repo where I usualy search. ^^"

[zapman]

Download doesn't work.
http://dl.openhandhe...i?0,0,0,0,72,54
file doesn't exist. And in the Apps site there seems to be an older version of Dosbox. Where can I get the latest version? It is still not in the Repo where I usualy search. ^^"

You are right, this download doesn't work any longer. I can't tell you where to get an up-to-date version..

But maybe this is a good thing, as Pickle could compile a fresh version and upload it to repo.openpandora.org fixing the remaining major bug first, of course.