Yaro Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 I'v found that newest ver of DosBox-Dos Emulator with CVS version( get from CVS Win32 )runs UFO Enemy Unknown and TFTD ( DOS Ver. ) pretty well !!! ( on my Athlon1600+ )with adjustable speed of emulation (Ctrl+F11 & Ctrl+F12), Fullscreen/Windows option ( Alt+Enter )Very good quality SoundBlaster & General Midi Output now: Geoscape time, all animations, scrolls, movememt looks like on 386 or 486 hint:after run DosBox - You have to mount Your Ufo Directry at command prompt:for example: mount c c:\Games\Ufo Best Regards - Yaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 17, 2003 Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 ok, how about proper grammer? so this dos emulator can run UFO and TFTD quite well, and is CPU emulation speed adjustable? it emulates(?) soundblaster and general midi then sends it to your sound card or uses your soundcard specs like in standard windows dosbox? i'd like a more "discriptive" discription! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaro Posted September 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 As I wrote it is emulator You can set speed of emulated CPU, Sound Blaster/GM is also emulated and streams are send to windows proper audio devices. DosBox is also available for Linux, Amiga and others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicahDG Posted September 17, 2003 Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 ok, how about proper grammer? so this dos emulator can run UFO and TFTD quite well, and is CPU emulation speed adjustable? it emulates(?) soundblaster and general midi then sends it to your sound card or uses your soundcard specs like in standard windows dosbox? i'd like a more "discriptive" discription! Ok, how about brushing up a bit on your computer terms and social skills? Even by the grand age of 15, you should know that English is not everybody's native tongue.... Thanks for an excellent solution, Yaro. I'm sure it will help everyone who has a copy of the dos versions laying around (me included). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 WOW... This is sweet.. the slow down is quite smooth (altho the default speed is a little slow) and the sound is what I would expect from a 8bit Sound Blaster (oh I rember when i bought my first one of them) and I did have to reset the sound config in the game.. Now who's Idea is it to have the default IRQ set to 7? the original Sound Blaster uses IRQ5, all the ISA SB's (original the 'new' the SB16, the Awe32) used IRQ5 except, the SB Pro that used IRQ 7 (shared with LPT1) Just a note to every one.. 'CVS' is basicly _beta_.. so no _oficial_ support till the final is released. but if you have XP and a dos version of UFO or TFTD it's defenly worth downloading. -Blade FireLight ps. Yaro. could you have the download link go directly to the file.. It took me a while to find the right file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mewse Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 i've been using this for a while, practically since they added protected mode support to the CVS, and my only problems have been with crashed during the transfer from geoscape to tactical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaro Posted September 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 altho the default speed is a little slow & the default IRQ set to 7? All settings can You found and change in dosbox.conf :alien2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 i've been using this for a while, practically since they added protected mode support to the CVS, and my only problems have been with crashed during the transfer from geoscape to tactical.I have not had it crash on this current version... so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ion Mage Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 wow.... the game runs like ass. BUt then again, i only got a 1.3 ghz comp. Im assuming that my video card wouldn't help dosbox to much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 wow.... the game runs like @#$. BUt then again, i only got a 1.3 ghz comp. Im assuming that my video card wouldn't help dosbox to much... does that mean it's slow or fast.. or just right? -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ion Mage Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 slow. And i did hit ctrl-f12 to speed it up... little good. Its like im running it on a computer thats 1/10 the system requirements for the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 i've been using this for a while, practically since they added protected mode support to the CVS, and my only problems have been with crashed during the transfer from geoscape to tactical.the crash between combat is caused by how xcomutil detects the diferance between exiting the game and switching to combat... seems what ever date function it's using is not compatible.. runs find with out xcomutil... ** Edit ** I have found a workarround for the xcomutil problem with DOSBox and have sent my findings off to Scott. hopfully there will be a fix out. but untill then here is the workarround.. in runxcom.bat ...right after the lines contaiting ufoexe\geoscape "0" and ufoexe\geosape "1" addif errorlevel 2 goto empymisgoto end they will then look like..ufoexe\geosape "0" if errorlevel 2 goto emptmis goto endandufoexe\geosape "1" if errorlevel 2 goto emptmis goto end** end edit ** Ion Mage: I use the config file to set my speed up to 9000 up from the default 1800 and it runs great.. you need to run the config command inside of dosbox and then check the readme to see how to load it. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 my apologies. i must've been rushed or pissed or something.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 Scott has release Xcomutil 9.42 the runxcom.bat file now works with DOSBox SVC however the xcusetup does not.. so you have to run it from windows first. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 whats with the protected mode thing? i must admit, the thing (dosbox) still has quitealot of work to do...the "dir" command only tells you the contents of folder/drive at time of mounting (atleast from my experience) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 24, 2003 Report Share Posted September 24, 2003 Protected mode? the non beta version of DOS box does not do protected mode. but the Beta version (CVS) does. I guess that dir issue is why runxcom.bat was having problems.. but with 9.42 it's now working. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Hoz Posted September 25, 2003 Report Share Posted September 25, 2003 Well i DID try DosBox CVS but it didn't work with protected mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 25, 2003 Report Share Posted September 25, 2003 Well i DID try DosBox CVS but it didn't work with protected mode! you must have downloaded an older copy... try this link it runs protected mode -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 correction for my previous post: the dir thing was for the non-CVS version. CVS version runs fine. but my comp is still too slow... i can set the frame skip to max, but still no help. i have a CPU clock speed "checker" program that i scavanged from my 486..came with it ya know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 to slow? have you tried to spee it up? the default config uses 1800 cpu cycles per second.. I had to set it to 9000 cpu cycles per second to get the game to run.. and at that setting it works fine.. I'll have to test on a slower box. I dont think frame skip will help if the cpu cycles are set to slow. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 (edited) no matter how faST i set it, it is still to slow. don't forget i got onboard everything, so my CPU has to handle the emulation of sound and the output of sound, same with graphics. even if i overclock it to 450mHz. havn't tried adding ram though. actually, i might try that now...:: goes off and tinkles with PC :: edit: nope. no difference. Edited September 30, 2003 by Ki-tat Chung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 no matter how faST i set it, it is still to slow. don't forget i got onboard everything, so my CPU has to handle the emulation of sound and the output of sound, same with graphics. even if i overclock it to 450mHz. havn't tried adding ram though. actually, i might try that now...:: goes off and tinkles with PC :: edit: nope. no difference.450? there is the prob... Emulators are masive resorce hogs. at that speed the CE version of the game would be a better option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Hoz Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 The version i got from your link doesn't workat all.It's a black window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Hoz Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 The version i got from your link has a blank black window,nothing else (?).It's probably my mistake but if you know why........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 DOSBox is a black window.. it's DOS you have to own a copy of UFO 1.x or TFTD DOS.. They dont run on windows XP.. so you use a DOS emulator (DOSBox) to run the games. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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