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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 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.

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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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                                        • voljega
                                          voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                                          @dragu oh yeah but you're using full path so that seems logical at least.

                                          Was it in dosbox.bat or dosbox.cfg ?

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                                          • Dragu
                                            Dragu Banned last edited by

                                            @voljega
                                            In dosbox.cfg

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