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    • voljega
      voljega Banned last edited by

      @dragu
      @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

      imgmount d .\cd\wackywheels.iso -t cdrom directly mount the iso located there /recalbox/share/roms/dos/WackyWe.pc/cd/wackywheels.iso

      Well I was a little kick because it works with 'real' dos name for the iso but not with full name when the command is accessed from dosbox.bat, I saw by adding the pause command at the end of the command.bat, really usefull.

      • if i change the line to imgmount d .\cd\wackyw~1.iso -t cdrom it works
      • if i rename the iso to waky.iso imgmount d .\cd\wacky.iso -t cdrom it works
      • if i leave like imgmount d .\cd\wackywheels.iso -t cdrom I get the error image is not found
      • if i try imgmount d ".\cd\wackywheels.iso" -t cdrom, image is not found either

      The game launched nonetheless but this is a bother for automatic converting.

      Do you have an idea to adress directly more-than-8-characters names from dosbox.bat ?
      Didn't try to put it back in [autoexec] part yet

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      • Dragu
        Dragu Banned last edited by

        @voljega
        Dosbox is always a 8.3 file naming system, not like DRDOS later. It has just the Microsoft standard.

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        • voljega
          voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

          @dragu so impossible to get more than 8 characters and forced to use ~1 and such ?

          (I have seen examples like imgmount d ".\cd\wackywheels.iso" -t cdrom in some dosbox.cfg [autoexec] but I don't think I tested them)

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          • voljega
            voljega Banned last edited by voljega

            @dragu well even more confusing, @Cthulhus discovered that you can even put some dosbox.cfg parameters into dosbox.bat
            So the following dosbox.bat:

            aspect=true
            mapperfile=lba1.map
            
            imgmount d .\cd\wackyw~1.iso -t cdrom
            c: 
            cd WACKY
            pause
            WW.EXE
            

            will rightly set the display to 4/3 but the mapper file won't be used if dosbox.cfg is not present with the same parameters
            @Cthulhus managed to set some parameters for the cpu and for graphics too

            Well maybe it's better to separate the two anyway

            On a side note, to finish with iso names having more than 8 characters : it seems to work to specify them in dosbox.cfg [autoexec] with the full name but then you also have to use the full path

            And in the mapper with an xbox360 I can configure dpad directions with the internal mapper but the keys are then not working in game

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            • Dragu
              Dragu Banned last edited by

              @voljega
              Yes, you can make alot of operations in the bat file. And create other batch files.
              I also find something concerning your relative path story, perhaps it can help you :
              https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/batch_bat_file_to_make_dosbox_games_portable_by_using_relative_directory_path_structure

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              • voljega
                voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                @dragu nice but I don't have any trouble any more with the relative path, only with long names

                I'll keep it on the side, though

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                • cotedeporc
                  cotedeporc last edited by

                  @voljega

                  Do you still have dead-zone problems with your joystick?
                  I try to play on Captain Dynamo and the joystick (which is auto-detected) generate some ghost movements.

                  Thanks!

                  Thème FoolScreen / Squared

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                  • rockaddicted
                    rockaddicted last edited by

                    Never used this emulator. If you could create a basic wiki to help users to use dosbox, could be awesome 😉

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                    Wiki ENG : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(EN)
                    Wiki FR : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(FR)

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                    • voljega
                      voljega Banned @cotedeporc last edited by

                      @cotedeporc did yo try to modify timed=true to timed=false in the [joystick] part of your custom dosbox.cfg ? This solved my problem !

                      But apparentlybthere is no easy way to configure deadzone in dosbox...

                      @rockaddicted ok i will as son as i'll have tested a little more game, twenty or so (only 4-5 for now !)

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                      • rockaddicted
                        rockaddicted last edited by

                        @voljega no problem, take your time 😉 Thank you.

                        Recalbox V4.1.0 - RPI3 OC - Xbox360 wireless
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                        Wiki FR : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(FR)

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                        • voljega
                          voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by voljega

                          @rockaddicted

                          @Dragu @Cthulhus feel free to complete it 🙂

                          https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/How-to-use-DOSBox-to-emulate-DOS-games

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                          • rockaddicted
                            rockaddicted @voljega last edited by

                            @voljega great thank, I'll read that this weekend

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                            • voljega
                              voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

                              J'ai rajouté un nouveau 'bug' : si on monte un cd en cue avec le bin associé dont le nom n'est pas dos-compatible le cd n'est pas détecté, il faut renommer cue,bin et intérieur du bin et c'est putain de strict, même les majuscules il n'aime pas alors qu'il devrait s'en foutre....

                              'bug' dans le sens où oui MSDOS pur ne sait pas gérer ce genre de nom mais ça marche sous Windows avec la même version de DOsbox, la 0.74.
                              Après elle est ptet modifiée manuellement cette version DOSBOX pour gérer ça je sais pas

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                              • voljega
                                voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

                                Feels weird playing old games like Colonization or One Must Fall 2097 with music and sounds as my old 486 SX didn't have any card sound :))

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                                • voljega
                                  voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

                                  @Dragu @Cthulhus (continued in english to be readable by the greater number)

                                  So I've now tested around 500 games of the ExoDOS Collection (which not be as complete as I thought because Judge Dredd Pinball sure as hell ain't in it !) and I would say around 15% have troubles or are not working.

                                  By far the most common problem (70-80% of all games with problem) is the special mounting of directory as floppy or cd.

                                  In dosbox.bat any command like the following lines , despite path beeing correct always raises a "Directory not found error"

                                  mount a .\floppy\ -t floppy
                                  

                                  or

                                  mount d .\cd\ -t cdrom
                                  

                                  I didn't try in dosbox.cfg to see if it was working and trying with imgmount returns a "Use mount instead" error
                                  Those commands come straight from ExoDOS collection and works under windows with the same dosbox version (embedded in exodos)

                                  Any idea ?

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                                  • Dragu
                                    Dragu Banned last edited by

                                    @voljega
                                    Its silly question and I dont know if something will change, but do you already tried with slash instead of backslash ?

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                                    • voljega
                                      voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                                      @dragu no lol i'll try next time i encounter one

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                                      • Dragu
                                        Dragu Banned last edited by

                                        @voljega
                                        I just tried it out on my files, and imgmount was not working with backslash as he expect linux notifcations.

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                                        • voljega
                                          voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                                          @dragu hmmm whaaaat ? All my imgmount use backlashes ( \ right ?) without problems

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                                          • Dragu
                                            Dragu Banned last edited by

                                            @voljega
                                            I used
                                            imgmount d "\recalbox\share\roms\dos\judgepb.pc\JUDGEPB.CUE" -t iso
                                            instead of
                                            imgmount d "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/judgepb.pc/JUDGEPB.CUE" -t iso
                                            and he didnt found the CD.
                                            Still some mistery for me behind dosbox. 😉

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