dosbox 0.73b alpha to test

DOSBox 0.74 is now availible on mainstrem site

http://www.dosbox.com/

Maybe could be faster ...

@corto

Hey corto

Even though I do not actually use dosbox at the moment years ago I was very interested in seeing the development of such... and now because of the power of our Amiga HW is getting up there the interest is only going to grow...

I'd like to support your efforts!

Do you have a paypal account? And what is your preferred currency?

@Samo79
Thanks for the news ! About Dosbox 0.73 I stopped to investigate for optimization : I tested dozens of approaches and the code design made me crazy !

@Slayer
Thanks ! I appreciate but I do it for fun and I prefer amigans to save their money to buy hardware or contribute to software developers that needs money.

@corto

Very cool corto, respect

Thanks for your work!

@corto



Have you try to contact directly the official devs about this specific problem ?

DOSBox is an open source project, maybe we can doing somethings

got as far as creating a c & games dir but clueless as how to mount my cdrom on my Samflex ...now once the cd rom is accessable then I suppose I have to install windows itself before I can load up some dos games??

@328gts

dosbox in the actual AOS4 version does not seem to support real cdrom and virtual ones (would be extremely usefull if you could mount the CD with diskimagegui and let dosbox knows about it )

the only thing to do is to copy the content of the CD to a directory but if the application/game needs the CD, than it is a no-go.

@Lio

ah ok so what about games that have to be setup to run? can I just run setup.exe within dosbox and the installation carries forward in the mounted dir?

also, why is it that I mount c: in my DH1 partition and whrn I typer dir it's showing my main DH0 partition only

edit:
ok got her working now after some fiddling around ..hehe i forgot about that 8 (or so) charcater limit on dos file names..so far tried out an old classic "jumpman" and I'm at 100% all the time and it's still slow on my Samflex@800. Will try out some other stuff later. Good news is that it is very stable on my system so far. Thanks again corto

anyone know how I can turn off extended memory under dosbox?? trying to load up my old Ultima7 and when I reun the exe it tells me to shut off the extended memory manager to run ...been a looong while since I updated auotexec.bat under DOS

Ultima 7 is available under amiga os4, thanks to Friedens, so you have not to use DosBox Emulator . With that port you can also use the expansions

Look here:

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fun ... ame/roleplaying/exult.lha

@corto

Congratulations on and Thanks for continuing development
work on OS4!

re: DOSbox... I'm wondering what OS you guys have been
running? Is it really just DOS or can this emulator run
any ancient versions of windoze, etc?

Edit: ah ha, I just noticed the link...
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So it's trully DOS and games only?

Thanks,

PJS

@nubechecorre

thanks for the link..I'll check it out!..btw, any idea about turning off that extended memory in DOS?

any of you guys get Jumpman working ok under dosbox? ...runs very slow even on high frame rate which is odd because I usually have to slow down other more intense games

How does DosBox 0.74 work on X1000? As in, mention some titles or something.

I finished the campaign Hom&M II under DOSBox on X1000.

Warcraft II works fine here.

@mufa
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How did you get it working ?

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Refreshing graphics on the battle and castle - ok
Time to think of computer opponents - ok
Refreshing graphics on the map is not perfect (move hero to jump is optimal option).

DOSBox 0.74
CPU Cycles = MAX
frameskip 0

I get only:

"Exit to error: Can't init SDL SDL not built with cdrom support"

???

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Yes DOSBox 0.74 not support new libSDL. I use an older version LibSDL-1.2.so (11.05.2010) 2.4MB.