dosbox, now with 100% less drama

olesolo · Post by **olesolo** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:43 am

Civilization 1 you can try to run on SNES, Amiga or Macintosh emulators.

hokk · Post by **hokk** » Thu May 22, 2008 5:03 am

A risk of a bit OT now.

Civilization 1 running on:

Macintosh: No good emulator
SNES: Strange version don't like it
ATARI: Impossible to find the game
AMIGA: Good version but I haven't managed to make it run well yet

It is just so frustrating because Dosbox has the potential to run the game and it does it very good for 4 minutes, then some bug freezes the psp. But fixing the problem maybe isn't that easy..

andwhyisit · Post by **andwhyisit** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:42 am

Is there a way to have dosbox start with the mapped keys instead of pressing ltrigger + rtrigger + select + down every time I start up dosbox?

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:30 am

andwhyisit wrote:Is there a way to have dosbox start with the mapped keys instead of pressing ltrigger + rtrigger + select + down every time I start up dosbox?

put it in the autoconf section of the dosbox.conf file.

Wally

random1739 · Post by **random1739** » Thu May 22, 2008 5:38 pm

Does the latest (Jan 30) version only work on PSP phat?

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:20 pm

random1739 wrote:Does the latest (Jan 30) version only work on PSP phat?

Do you people ever try things before you ask?

Wally

Dark Chazz · Post by **Dark Chazz** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:48 pm

I have w3.1 installed in an iso w/ win32s and win32 apps work fine in pc dosbox but on psp dosbox it says (win32s needs windows to be run with virtual memory enabled).

I'm using this:

imgmount c ms0:\w31.iso -t iso
c:
cd windows
win

help anyone ?

random1739 · Post by **random1739** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:37 am

Wally4000 wrote:
random1739 wrote:Does the latest (Jan 30) version only work on PSP phat?
Do you people ever try things before you ask?

Wally

You could have at least answered the question before the abuse.

Besides, its still easier to type 1 short sentence here than spend 5-10mins transferring files to test on my Slim :P

EDIT - The link to l00ks good config file is down. Anyone have another link? The old one used to be at: www.deardenboys.co.uk/dosbox.conf

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Sun May 25, 2008 3:25 pm

So you'd rather wait hours hoping for an answer to a stupid question than to take a couple minutes to test it yourself? I guess you haven't been here very long... we don't tend to answer stupid questions except with abuse. This is a board for developers, not users. As such, stupid questions are answered with everything from silence (the best you can hope for) to abuse to stupid answers.

random1739 · Post by **random1739** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:34 pm

Right. Latest version works on slim, but has less memsize set by default (10 vs 20mb). When I set the memsize any higher however, the PSP crashes. I'm assuming its not possible to set higher on the Jan version then

I'm hoping to run Axis and Allies Iron Blitz (requires 16mb ram), so I'll give that a go on the dedicated slim version, since I've set that to memsize 40 with no crashes so far.

I do have two qustions however:

1. Can I increase the cycles mid-game? Is there a pre-programmed key equivalent for Ctrl+F12?

2. Can I program multi key presses into 1 key? (E.g. Ctrl+Q = ltrigger). Some older games require this for qutting.

If they are 'noobish' could someone please direct me to a guide or something

Thanks

Dark Chazz · Post by **Dark Chazz** » Mon May 26, 2008 1:39 am

anyway I can get some free space in an iso?

Drajwer · Post by **Drajwer** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:47 am

Does someone mind adding build-in SIO keyboard driver for dosbox? I dont like pSprint too much... And keyboard will cool in windows.

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Mon May 26, 2008 10:37 am

Dark Chazz wrote:anyway I can get some free space in an iso?

Again this is not a help forum, google is your friend.

Wally

olesolo · Post by **olesolo** » Wed May 28, 2008 12:34 am

random1739 wrote:Right. Latest version works on slim, but has less memsize set by default (10 vs 20mb). When I set the memsize any higher however, the PSP crashes. I'm assuming its not possible to set higher on the Jan version then

I'm hoping to run Axis and Allies Iron Blitz (requires 16mb ram), so I'll give that a go on the dedicated slim version, since I've set that to memsize 40 with no crashes so far.

Memsize parameter doesn`t works in Jan version. It`s just ignored.
Try to set 40 in Jan version and you`ll see no improvments.

andrewwan1980 · Post by **andrewwan1980** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:58 am

JoblessPunk wrote:Hey,
I'm trying to get Carmageddon to work on the PSP.
<snip><snip>

I noticed some people have requested for oldskool 3D DOS games to be more playable under DOSBoxPSP (eg. Carmageddon). I even youtube.com & found many videos demonstrating games running under DOSBoxPSP but commented how slow it was (eg. Fallout).

Behold! What you should do first is scan through this list of PS1 games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pl ... on_1_games

Many oldskool DOS games were also released on PS1 too! And with popstation you can convert PS1 games to run on PSP.

MS-DOS games like Theme Park, C&C, Syndicate Wars, Carmageddon, G-Police, Actua Soccer, Alone In The Dark 2/4, Moto Racer, Another World, Flash Back, Fade to Black, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom1/F Descent, Forsaken, GTA, Hi-Octane, Magic Carpet, NASCAR, and many more.... are also on PS1!!! (and you should know how to get them ... hint hint - PM me if you are a total noobie). You don't have to buy the games, just borrow from the main library or a friend...

I was surprised at how many DOS games were also released on PS1. So this should help lift a whole load of work off DOSBoxPSP developers (crazyc)... from doing the impoosible... and let them concentrate on super oldskool 2D DOSgames like Commander Keen, etc. or Blood Money

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:03 am

andrewwan1980 wrote:
JoblessPunk wrote:Hey,
I'm trying to get Carmageddon to work on the PSP.
<snip><snip>
I noticed some people have requested for oldskool 3D DOS games to be more playable under DOSBoxPSP (eg. Carmageddon). I even youtube.com & found many videos demonstrating games running under DOSBoxPSP but commented how slow it was (eg. Fallout).

Behold! What you should do first is scan through this list of PS1 games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pl ... on_1_games

Many oldskool DOS games were also released on PS1 too! And with popstation you can convert PS1 games to run on PSP.

MS-DOS games like Theme Park, C&C, Syndicate Wars, Carmageddon, G-Police, Actua Soccer, Alone In The Dark 2/4, Moto Racer, Another World, Flash Back, Fade to Black, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom1/F Descent, Forsaken, GTA, Hi-Octane, Magic Carpet, NASCAR, and many more.... are also on PS1!!! (and you should know how to get them ... hint hint)

I was surprised at how many DOS games were also released on PS1. So this should help lift a whole load of work off DOSBoxPSP developers (crazyc)... from doing the impoosible... and let them concentrate on super oldskool 2D DOSgames like Commander Keen, etc. or Blood Money

Thats exactly right people! Best post in a while. Although they might be a tad larger however and not quite legal unless you rip yourself.

Wally

olesolo · Post by **olesolo** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:28 am

andrewwan1980
you right.
theme hospital is amazing on PSX :)

Is it possible to use PSP GPU for DosBox?
And could it improve a speed?

doobers · Post by **doobers** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:41 am

Hello!
I found this old TSR DOS program which emulates an ASCII keyboard on the psp screen, all the buttons are there ! ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdo ... kmouse.zip maybe you can find it useful, i use this with tab auto complete and i can traverse directories easily, but it does not work with windows or games.
tnx to crazyc for letting me have my old BBS in my pocket... saludos :)

andrewwan1980 · Post by **andrewwan1980** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:52 am

olesolo wrote:andrewwan1980
you right.
theme hospital is amazing on PSX :)

Is it possible to use PSP GPU for DosBox?
And could it improve a speed?

crazyc could atleast put a note at the top (1st posting) about the running expectations/performance from current DOSBox-PSP, just to prevent people going on about how slow Carmageddon is, etc.... and it would be useful to post the 'List of PSX games' in the first post and tell everyone to check for existence of the game in PSX format.

bulldog · Post by **bulldog** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:51 am

Hey everyone, I am trying to get HDM 5.04 - Hard Disk Menu to work for launching all my dos games on the PSP. I have it setup so the menu functions on the PSP using this in my HDM.BAT file:
INPUTMAP up up
INPUTMAP right right
INPUTMAP down down
INPUTMAP left left
INPUTMAP ltrigger esc
INPUTMAP rtrigger F3
INPUTMAP cross enter
INPUTMAP triangle pgup
INPUTMAP circle pgdown
INPUTMAP EXEC HDM4DOS %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
if ErrorLevel 9 %X% -R
if ErrorLevel 7 X -R
echo Error running HDM for DOS!

Then I setup menu entries for each game. I have the menu run a custom batch file for the specific game so I can reset the INPUTMAP settings. The problem is that I can't get it to run the batch file. Does anyone know if there is a way to do this? I don't like the DN shell.

Also, I installed PortableApps to my PSP memory card and added dosbox to that and now I can run it when I connect to my PC via USB. I just have both versions of dosbox mount the same folder on my memory card. Cool?

bulldog · Post by **bulldog** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:22 am

I was able to work around the problem. Apparently, the menu program does not like the way I am loading it with INPUTMAP EXEC. It works to run the menu program, but gets errors when the menu launches another program. The workaround was to have the menu exit and automate typing the command to run a batch file. I will be writing a HOWTO on all of this soon, I will post a reply with a link to it once I have it done.

If anyone has more info on the INPUTMAP command (syntax, values, etc.) please post a reply. Here is some info that I have put together on it.

SYNTAX: INPUTMAP [PSP BUTTON VALUE] [KEY VALUE]
**************************************************************
PSP BUTTON_____VALUE_____KEY NAME________VALUE
dpad up_________up________up arrow_________up
dpad down______down______down arrow_______down
dpad left________left________left arrow________left
dpad right_______right_______right arrow_______right
square__________square_____left-ctrl__________lctrl
cross___________cross______left-alt___________lalt
triangle_________triangle____enter____________enter
square__________square_____space___________space
left trigger_______ltrigger_____F5______________f5
right trigger______rtrigger_____escape_________esc
select___________select______Page Up_________pgup
start ____________start______Page Down_______pgdown
**************************************************************

bulldog · Post by **bulldog** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:26 am

Hey, I am trying to get Kyrandia 1 & 2 (cdrom versions) to work on my PSP. I have them working on my PC with full sound (including the digital speech, YAY!). When I use the same files on my psp dosbox I get an error loading the game saying that I need a CDROM driver (MSCDEX). Apparently that driver is built into the PC version of dosbox. I can't find any reference to it for the psp version of dosbox. I only see documentation on the config statement for it. Has anyone else run into this problem or know a solution?

olesolo · Post by **olesolo** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:35 am

bulldog wrote:Hey, I am trying to get Kyrandia 1 & 2 (cdrom versions) to work on my PSP. I have them working on my PC with full sound (including the digital speech, YAY!). When I use the same files on my psp dosbox I get an error loading the game saying that I need a CDROM driver (MSCDEX). Apparently that driver is built into the PC version of dosbox. I can't find any reference to it for the psp version of dosbox. I only see documentation on the config statement for it. Has anyone else run into this problem or know a solution?

use ScummVM PSP port to run Kyrandia 1-3
:)

crazyc · Post by **crazyc** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:40 am

I've made some changes to the recompiler that improve performance by about 10%. I'm still tracking down bugs that cause some protected mode apps, including windows, to fail so I'll post a patch when I fix them. For now I've put up a new binary for people to play with.

Dark Chazz · Post by **Dark Chazz** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:30 pm

cool !!

I thought you'll never work on this anymore.

olesolo · Post by **olesolo** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:45 am

excellent.
waiting for a download link.

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:21 am

olesolo wrote:excellent.
waiting for a download link.

Check first page..

Wally

P.S crazyc I'm having problems running dosshell, it errors out.. I'll let ya know later what it is.

Dark Chazz · Post by **Dark Chazz** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:29 am

me too , even windows doesn't run as he said.

gelon · Post by **gelon** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:58 pm

wow!, alone works better and its very playable atm

but i have one problem, when i use the directional keys (<-,->, etc) i have to push the key to times to get it works, if i press it one time the character doesnt move (i use up+X shortcut of course)

many thanks crazyc!

crazyc · Post by **crazyc** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:47 pm

That's by design. If you want to have to only push it once, use input mapping,

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