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Hellbishop
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| DOS BOX! Great now to pull out the old game collection |
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This is great!Thank you creators of DOS BOX now i can enjoy more of the classics from 1990s. |
Thu Oct 16, 2003 2:39 pm |
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Drakton
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
Anyone can help me to use this program? I downloaded it, but have no idea how to run old games. Readme is not very clear for me, sorry. I'd love to be able to play old games like Shadows Over Riva, Stonekeep, Anvil of Dawn... aaahhh good ol'times 
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"You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one" (Zaknafein to Drizzt - The Dark Elf Trilogy.) |
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Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:03 am |
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Chekote
Where’s my Banana?!?!
Joined: 08 Mar 2002
Posts: 1540
Location: Dont know, looks kind of green |
Does anyone know if it support DOS Protected Mode Runtime yet? I was hoping to be able to play Duke Nukem 3D & Shadow Warrior once again.
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Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:35 pm |
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Drakton
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
Yes! That is one of the features of ver. 0.60 and what makes it very interesting to learn how to use it.
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Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:29 pm |
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Chekote
Where’s my Banana?!?!
Joined: 08 Mar 2002
Posts: 1540
Location: Dont know, looks kind of green |
quote:
Originally posted by Drakton
Anyone can help me to use this program? I downloaded it, but have no idea how to run old games. Readme is not very clear for me, sorry. I'd love to be able to play old games like Shadows Over Riva, Stonekeep, Anvil of Dawn... aaahhh good ol'times
I just downloaded it and it has a readme with it. Its definately not the easiest thing to use (Its all command line). But its all in the readme.
Try and get it working first and then come back when you have a more specific question. Then we will see if we can help.
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Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:36 am |
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Drakton
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
Thanks. I got to the point where it starts to load the game, and then I got this message: "CD rom not installed. Sorry" and nothing else happens.
Any help, somebody?
TIA
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Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:21 am |
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Could you post your system specs and what game you are trying to get working? |
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Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:33 pm |
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That was me, for some reason it didnt ask me to log in when I replied like usual. weird.
Anyway, could you also post what exactly you did with DosBox. e.g. what command line arguments you used. |
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Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:36 pm |
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Drakton
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
Thanks.
I'm trying to run Shadows Over Riva
I went a little further I:
mount g g:\ -t cdrom
It mounts the cdrom allright
then:
mount c c:\oldgames
c:
cd riva
riva.exe
It starts with the opening screen but in really slow motion.
I then ctrl+f12 and ctrl+f8 to increase memory usage and frames.
Then the game freezes.
My specs:
P4 1.8, 1 gig ram, ATI Radeon 9700 pro, WIN XP Pro.
TIA
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"You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one" (Zaknafein to Drizzt - The Dark Elf Trilogy.) |
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Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:23 pm |
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Drakton
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
OK I got it to run. I reinstalled the game and now it runs but 3 issues are still pending:
1-it runs in a small window
2- it runs very slow even if I increase the frameskip and memore usage
3- I get no spoken dialog sound, only music.
Still, it felt great to play this oldie again!!!
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Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:52 am |
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Chekote
Where’s my Banana?!?!
Joined: 08 Mar 2002
Posts: 1540
Location: Dont know, looks kind of green |
Cool! I havent had a chance to try it out yet, sorry (We are preparing to move house).
I know the author said that a 2Ghz machine would be equivalent to a 25Mhz machine when using DosBox.
What requirements does that game have?
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Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:53 pm |
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~NOBODY~
The One And Only
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
Posts: 1824
Location: Vivec, Jobasha's Rare Books |
Strange, why did it show up NOW??? It's been released for a long time. Also there're some more imitators that are more popular. |
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Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:36 pm |
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Drakton
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
Minimum Requirements of SoR:
486/33 or faster
MS-Dos 5.0 or higher
8MB ram
2x cdrom
60MB HD space
mouse
Sound Blaster Pro/16/AWE32
However (and this is a BIIIG HOWEVER) I right click the riva.exe file, opened properties, in the program tab I chose 'maximized', and in the compatibility tab I chose 'run in 256 colors' and 'run in 640 x 780 screen resolution' and the game now RUNS PERFECTLY WITHOUT USING DOSBOX. I just doubleclick the riva.exe file and it loads and runs perfect!!!
WHOA!!!!
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Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:43 pm |
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Drakton
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México |
quote:
Originally posted by ~NOBODY~
Strange, why did it show up NOW??? It's been released for a long time.
Yes, but new version 0.60 now runs Protected Mode games, which previous versions didn't and thus had a limited number of games to run.
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Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:46 pm |
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