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    • Substring
      Substring @voljega last edited by

      @voljega I plead not guilty your honor ...
      No idea, hardly ever tried dosbox, not time to check for now 😕

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      • Dragu
        Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

        @voljega
        With my games, for the moment nothing scretched. Also because of your crash at boot. There may be some things to adapt in local dosbox.cfg. Do you looked inside my dosbox.cfg of the above link ? Memory could be a problem. I changed it from dosbox.conf.
        And CD Wacky ? Should it not be CD Wacky.pc ?

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        • voljega
          voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

          @dragu The crash at boot is only because of the presence of a *.pc folder into another subfolder (instead of plain /recalbox/share/roms/dos) it doesn't crash as soon as i remove the *.pc folder from the subfolder and leave it at /recalbox/share/roms/dos

          Now with original dosbox.conf file of the game, even without the autoexec part, yes it crashes and I had to use your file (the lba one you gave me a while ago wihtout the autoexec part off course), i don't know why but comparing them there are several differences
          yours : https://pastebin.com/NFM7uX51
          mine : https://pastebin.com/2sGm8u6X

          at least output=overlay instead of texture raises a warning in dosbox when launched from command line

          "And CD Wacky ? Should it not be CD Wacky.pc ?"
          No because when in dosbox.bat . is already setted into the game folder, just like 😄 , here WackyWhe.pc
          so imgmount d .\cd\wackywheels.iso -t cdrom directly mount the iso located there /recalbox/share/roms/dos/WackyWe.pc/cd/wackywheels.iso
          And there is a message regarding the mounting at the beginning (after the dosbox orange green) which show that the path is indeed the good one like "Mounted d on /recalbox/share/roms/dos/WackyWe.pc/cd/wackywheels.iso"
          and cd WACKY goes from /recalbox/share/roms/dos/WackyWe.pc to /recalbox/share/roms/dos/WackyWe.pc/WACKY folder where ww.exe is located
          at the root of my game folder i only have the cfg file and the bat file

          Now for ratio comparison we can clearly see the difference especially on the Apogee Moon in the logo which is clearly not round but elliptic on Recalbox : (up real 4/3 dosbox on windows, down something between 4/3 and 16/9 dosbox on recalbox)
          https://imgur.com/a/YbdSe

          This is again with your dosbox.cfg (but i have a same result on another game without any dosbox.cfg in game folder), the vertical black bars on both side should be twice as wide

          OK your file had just aspect=false with aspect=true I get the correct 4/3
          I assumed you got your file from the dosbox root folder and this is more or less the one used by default so this might be a bug for 4.1

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          • voljega
            voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

            @voljega Tested Tyrian, joystick works but there is a deadzone problem, the ship goes toward the right by itself, is that configurable in the mapper file ?

            By the way, @dragu do you have a sample mapper file ?

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            • voljega
              voljega Banned @Substring last edited by

              @substring ah ah ok, so @rockaddicted maybe ?

              In the dosbox rom folder, just creating a subfolder Race folder inside and putting WackyWhe.pc game folder into it (that's /recalbox/share/roms/race/WackyWhe.pc) makes ES crash at boot ! and thus Recalbox doesn't even start...

              I assume this is a bug in ES ? Maybe this is also the case for scummvm ?

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              • Dragu
                Dragu Banned @voljega last edited by Dragu

                @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

                ?

                @voljega
                On the moon, you are right. By the way, if you look from the side....
                Just kidding, thanks.
                For the mapperfile, you can create by yourself. Just Ctrl+F1 in started game. The mapper is really good. But sometimes I make adaption with edit in the files.
                Duke Nukem is now hudger as before, but looks a little like the Donald.

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                • voljega
                  voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                  @dragu ahah yeah there is a little resemblance.

                  Cool for the mapperfile thank you I will try it

                  I tried ultima underworld too, works fine.

                  By the way, any way to display the fps counter inside DosBox ?

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                  • Dragu
                    Dragu Banned last edited by

                    @voljega
                    I don't think so, we are not in Steam 🙂
                    I was starting to make DN Manhattan working, but before Windows95 should be ready. There I have still some problems. Time will bring the answer. Seems pervert to run windows in Recalbox, but some early games require 95.

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                    • voljega
                      voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                      @dragu Perverted I don't know but that would be a feat.

                      I also plan to try later to convert some games From ExoWin3.1 collection which run under Dosbox

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                      • Dragu
                        Dragu Banned last edited by

                        @voljega

                        I read the aspect story back in the dosbox Wiki, as I found that it has only an effect on some games.
                        "
                        aspect = true | false
                        Do aspect correction. It only affects non-square pixel modes like VGA Mode 13h, which has a resolution of 320x200 pixels and is used by many DOS games (DOOM, etc). Recommended as such games were designed for 4:3 displays, and without aspect correction will look distorted and not as the developer intended.
                        Default is false.
                        "
                        So, if you have 640x480 or bigger resolution, no need.

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                        • voljega
                          voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                          @dragu cool to know but then better leave it to true as it will no effect on games with bigger resolution ?

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                          • Dragu
                            Dragu Banned @voljega last edited by Dragu

                            @voljega
                            I am not sure, because it is also written :

                            aspect: Do aspect correction, if your output method doesn't support scaling this can slow things down!.

                            So, it seems to have perhaps negative effect on speed. This could be an issue in more recent games.

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                            • rockaddicted
                              rockaddicted @voljega last edited by

                              @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

                              @substring ah ah ok, so @rockaddicted maybe ?

                              Sorry dude I didn't have time to test this emulator, can't help you.

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                              • voljega
                                voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by

                                @rockaddicted It's not related to the emulator, more an Emulation Station problem regarding how it shows folder as a menu item.

                                Any way, i'll file a bug when 4.1 is released and when there will be a new bug tracking system

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                                • rockaddicted
                                  rockaddicted last edited by

                                  ah ok, indeed I miss read. I'll check that on the current master build.

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                                  • rockaddicted
                                    rockaddicted last edited by

                                    @voljega I tested on 4.1 x86 version with that:

                                    # ls /recalbox/share/roms/dos/test/prince.pc/
                                    CDUNGEON.DAT  DIGISND1.DAT  EDUNGEON.DAT  GUARD.DAT     IBM_SND1.DAT  INSTALL.PDM   MIDISND1.DAT  PRINCE.EXE    SKEL.DAT      VIZIER.DAT
                                    CPALACE.DAT   DIGISND2.DAT  EPALACE.DAT   GUARD1.DAT    IBM_SND2.DAT  KID.DAT       MIDISND2.DAT  PV.DAT        TITLE.DAT     VPALACE.DAT
                                    DESKTOPD.CFG  DIGISND3.DAT  FAT.DAT       GUARD2.DAT    INSTALL.EXE   LEVELS.DAT    PRINCE.DAT    SHADOW.DAT    VDUNGEON.DAT  dosbox.bat
                                    

                                    And I have no problem, game boots fine.

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                                    • voljega
                                      voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by

                                      @rockaddicted strange.... i wil retry but on my 4.1 ES doesn't show on boot, I tried with a pc game with both dosbox.cfg and dosbox.bat inside he folder

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                                      • rockaddicted
                                        rockaddicted last edited by

                                        @voljega maybe a bug fixed between last unstable and current master.
                                        Please test again on next stable release once available.
                                        If problem, we'll check that.

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                                        • voljega
                                          voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

                                          @rockaddicted I don't remember where the log is maybe there will be something in there regarding the crash of ES ?

                                          @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

                                          @voljega Tested Tyrian, joystick works but there is a deadzone problem, the ship goes toward the right by itself, is that configurable in the mapper file ?

                                          Ok it was more a sensibility/calibrate problem with the joystick drifting by itself.
                                          So to fix that you just need to edit dosbox.conf, go into [joystick] part and modify timed=true to timed=false

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                                          • rockaddicted
                                            rockaddicted last edited by

                                            you can restart ES on ssh a check the error message.

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