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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. πŸ˜‰

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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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                      • voljega
                        voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                        @dragu ok well dosbox.cfg seems less picky anyway than dosbox.bat which only accept true dos filenames

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                        • Dragu
                          Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                          In your story, could you work with variables with pathname inside such as %abc%\floppy\ ?

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                          • voljega
                            voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                            @dragu Hmmm I'm not sure at all I should try maybe

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                            • voljega
                              voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                              @dragu It does work in dosbox.bat using full path and quote :

                              mount a "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/Strategy-Gestion/fieldglo.pc/floppy/" -t floppy
                              

                              Not my favorite solution though

                              And then it should work with "./floppy/" or even c:\floppy but I guess at that point in launching (dosbox.bat) the "." is set only for the dos filesystem and not the linux one.

                              No idea why .\floppy\ or c:\floppy\ doesn't work when it is well interpreted for the imgmount command

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                              • Dragu
                                Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                                @voljega
                                Perhaps you could try something like this

                                set rpath = "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/Strategy-Gestion/fieldglo.pc"
                                mount a %rpath%/floppy/ -t floppy
                                

                                I am not sure if I made no error and if it is functioning under dosbox. πŸ™‚

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                                • voljega
                                  voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                                  @dragu still doesn't change the fact that the full absolute path is embedded in the conf πŸ˜‰
                                  and so entirely dependent of recalbox and the game path

                                  Ok by perusing dosbox documentation, mount indeed only uses paths from the local filesystem whereas imgmount is capable of using both local filesystem and virtual dosbox path so i guess relative path with the mount command won't be possible anyway

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                                  • Cthulhus
                                    Cthulhus last edited by

                                    why you don't use "my" methode ?

                                    for exemple, in the 2CDs game Lighthouse from Sierra, I don't use a dosbox.cfg and only the dosbox.bat and here its content :

                                    IMGMOUNT d .\Light-1.iso .\Light-2.iso -t iso
                                    cd SIERRA
                                    cd LIGHTDOS
                                    LIGHT.BAT

                                    One file with all what I need... it's more easy when you want to add many DOS games in row. πŸ˜‰

                                    in your case :
                                    mount a .\floppy -t floppy

                                    But I never mount a folder as a hard/floppy drive with this "silly" method... I use this for more simple fast stuff...

                                    C'Γ©tait mieux avant :-)

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                                    • voljega
                                      voljega Banned @Cthulhus last edited by voljega

                                      @cthulhus well if you read everything I put in the last message what you're saying only work with the imgmount command and not the mount one

                                      I also specifically said in the first message about this issue that the exact same command you're advising here doesn't work. That was the issue actually πŸ˜‰

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                                      • Cthulhus
                                        Cthulhus last edited by

                                        sorry, just read the end πŸ™‚ the end is always better πŸ˜‰

                                        C'Γ©tait mieux avant :-)

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                                        • voljega
                                          voljega Banned last edited by

                                          @dragu I'm having some trouble to map mouse button on the xbox controller (on shoulder buttons, either the ones below, or the ones up), it doesn't work.

                                          my mapping is like that :

                                          mbutton_left "stick_0 button 4" 
                                          mbutton_middle 
                                          mbutton_right "stick_0 button 5" 
                                          maxis_y- "stick_0 axis 3 0" 
                                          maxis_x- "stick_0 axis 2 0" 
                                          maxis_y+ "stick_0 axis 3 1" 
                                          maxis_x+ "stick_0 axis 2 1" 
                                          

                                          directions works ok but the mouse clicks refuses to register

                                          I noticed that for keybord keys the line is a little bit different :

                                          key_enter "stick_0 button 9" "key 40" 
                                          

                                          could it be that the mouse click mapping is missing the original mouse event to "link" controller button and mouse click ? i dit it through the internal mapper though.

                                          does it work for you, did you manage to use mouse buttons on a controller ?

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                                          • Dragu
                                            Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                                            @voljega
                                            Hi,
                                            for the moment I used it in Crusader with just left mouse button, and this is ok.
                                            When I look now on the Keymapper Screen, mouse, the buttons M and R are grey out. Why, I dont know, because I was not needing. In the mapperfile,
                                            mbutton_middle
                                            mbutton_right
                                            exist, but are not defined. Necessary to dig. πŸ™‚
                                            I was just checking, the grey out in the interface means that it is not used. And he accept to use it. Give it a try over the Keymapper Ctrl+F1. Is also the easiest way the first time you create the xxx.map

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