Dosbox For Dingoo A320

[NeoTheFox]

just played prototype, AWESOME! (Dingoo)

 

[Gocho]

I'm playing Skyroads (http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/skyroads/) without overcloking. Ingame it's almost 100% but start and race select menus are slooooow. I'm sure that after some options you can play it fullspeed.

How can I exit from DOSBOX?

 

[orakio_rob]

How can I exit from DOSBOX?

I just press SELECT, START and the power button.

I've got sound now, I have just noticed that sound was off by default Might and Magic I looks perfect, but I still need to map the keys. I can't find a good mapper.txt that I can use as a reference, and I don't know how to map the Dingoo buttons. Can anybody help me on this one?

 

[NeoTheFox]

First screen
HUG YEAH, I love it o3o

 

[Gocho]

Works fine with Gmenu2X selector:

Edit dosbox.conf and comment with # all the lines below [autorun]
Add a Link
Selector Directory: Folder with your dos games (a game for directory)
Selector Browser: ON
Selector Filer: exe,com,bat
Selector Screenshots: Folder with your .jpg screenshots, named as_your_game.executable

Save and run

 

[SiENcE]

Works fine with Gmenu2X selector:

Edit dosbox.conf and comment with # all the lines below [autorun]
Add a Link
Selector Directory: Folder with your dos games (a game for directory)
Selector Browser: ON
Selector Filer: exe,com,bat
Selector Screenshots: Folder with your .jpg screenshots, named as_your_game.executable

Save and run

Thanks Slanesh!

I also wrote an little HOWTO use DosBox with Gmenu2x: http://crankgaming.blogspot.com/2010/04/dosbox-for-dingux-howto.html

What we really need is a good Keyboard mapper and Mouse.

 

[Hanami]

Hello, for the guys who are willing to use a basic mapper.txt file, the buttons of Dingoo are equivalent to these keys:

A key 306
B key 308
X key 32
Y key 304
UP key 273
DOWN key 274
RIGHT key 275
LEFT key 276
L key 9
R key 8
START key 13
SELECT key 27

so, a sample mapper.txt could be

key_lctrl "key 306"
key_lshift "key 308"
key_lalt "key 32"
key_space "key 304"
key_up "key 273"
key_down "key 274"
key_right "key 275"
key_left "key 276"
key_esc "key 27"
key_enter "key 13"
key_y "key 9"
key_n "key 8"

I tested the speed of a few games @420MHz, memsize=4, frameskip=1:
Aladdin: Playable
Cyberdogs: Slow
Micro Machines: Playable
Rayman: Slow
Lakers vs Celtics: Slow

 

[Pickle]

I tested the speed of a few games @420MHz, memsize=4, frameskip=1:

Make sure to use dynamic for the core.

 

[Gocho]

And try to increase the "Cycle" amount in the slow games.

 

[slaanesh]

Like I said, it's still a test. I will still be adding the following:

* More speed. There's still a 20% increase in reserve
* On screen keyboard for A320. Nabbed from the GP2X/Wiz version.
* Mouse support.
* machine=vgaonly setting is broken - I did test this but I will need to investigate.
* Use machine=vga_s3 instead, I've set it to a 512KB video card, not a 2MB video card.

 

[Pickle]

Like I said, it's still a test. I will still be adding the following:

* More speed. There's still a 20% increase in reserve
* On screen keyboard for A320. Nabbed from the GP2X/Wiz version.
* Mouse support.
* machine=vgaonly setting is broken - I did test this but I will need to investigate.
* Use machine=vga_s3 instead, I've set it to a 512KB video card, not a 2MB video card.

there some mouse support built into the gp2x/wiz that you might consider using.

 

[slaanesh]

Thanks Pickle, I'll have a look.

Also, DOSBox users, you have to remember that DOSBox running on the A320/Nanonote isn't going to perform miracles.
You really have to play games that have the same spec as Amiga/ST games to get some playable fun out of it.

If you want to play turn based or RPG games, then you could probably aim a little higher as high framerates probably don't matter as much.

I'm looking forward to trying the original Civilization.

Another thing to remember is that games using 640x400 or 640x480 modes have a pretty slow scaling render algorithm.
I only added support for these resolutions primarily so that the emulated 80-column text modes would work.

Anyway, I intend to re-write some of these renderers into MIPS assembler to help the speed a little.

Also, little tip for A320 users: Use the DOS PC program called "DOS Navigator". It's a great free launcher for DOS.
Nanonote users can just type all their commands for that authentic feel of PC DOS emulation.

 

[orakio_rob]

Hello, for the guys who are willing to use a basic mapper.txt file, the buttons of Dingoo are equivalent to these keys:

Excellent, thanks!

 

[zear_]

I'm looking forward to trying the original Civilization.

I already tested it. Performs fine, except of the animated cutscenes, like founding of a town, which are really slow.
There's also a problem in the NanoNote with typing digits. Fn + numbers don't work. Fortunately civilization detects alt + some keys as digits, so was able to pass through the setup menu.

 

[Mortys]

Hi Zear
Don'y you have any sound problem on NN (very laggy) even with the PC Speaker only ?
And the loading time are pretty heavy. Could it be possible to add a HDD indicator ?
However what a piece of software for the NN. Chaos ENgine seems to freeze after the intro.

 

[Gocho]

I'm looking forward to trying the original Civilization.

I already tested it. Performs fine, except of the animated cutscenes, like founding of a town, which are really slow.
There's also a problem in the NanoNote with typing digits. Fn + numbers don't work. Fortunately civilization detects alt + some keys as digits, so was able to pass through the setup menu.

I'm waiting mouse support in the A320 to play it

EDIT:
I download the "PC-Config 9.33 Sysinfo Software for DOS" (http://www.holin.com/cindex.html) and run it to test the emu. I don't know if the benchmarking would present real info inside DOSBOX, but this are some results overclocking at 430Mhz and with Memory=4MB in my Dingoo A320:

CPU: Cx486SXL, Real Mode, Writeback, 25.52Mhz
Main Memory: 640KB, 635KB Free
Extended Memory: 1024KB, 2928 KB Free XMS (¿?)
Expanded Memory: 4096KB, 2928 KB Free
Videocard 1: VESA-VGA 32 bit-bus, 1024KB RAM
VGA Chipset: S3 Trio64

There are more info, but I can't show without press F2 or a mouse and I don't know how remap the keys yet.
Perhaps someone with a NN, can try the program.

EDIT 2:
I change overclock to 336Mhz and rerun it and get the same results, but when I change cycles to 6000 in dosbox.conf I get 50.05Mhz in the CPU, so changing dosbox config is the way to get more speed.

But then I try Skyroads again, and any option I changes gets no extra speed,

 

[cddxhy]

Use follow Mapper.txt, You can adjust CpuCycle in game use L/R button.

//---------------------------------------------------------------

hand_cycledown "key 9"
hand_cycleup "key 8"  
key_lctrl "key 306" 
key_lshift "key 308" 
key_lalt "key 32" 
key_space "key 304" 
key_up "key 273" 
key_down "key 274" 
key_right "key 275" 
key_left "key 276" 
key_esc "key 27" 
key_enter "key 13"

//---------------------------------------------------------------

 

[Ayla]

Is there a verbose mode ?

Video init for A320
DOSBox version 0.73
Copyright 2002-2009 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file conf_files/rad.conf
User level config
SDL_SetVideoMode for A320
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp32
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp16
MIXER:No Sound Mode Selected.
MIDI:Opened device:none
DoCommand AUTOEXEC.BAT
DoCommand::Execute cmd_buffer AUTOEXEC.BAT line 
DoCommand mount C /usr/local/games/dosbox/c_drive/
DoCommand::Execute cmd_buffer mount line  C /usr/local/games/dosbox/c_drive/
DoCommand C:
DoCommand::Execute cmd_buffer C: line 
DoCommand cd rad
DoCommand rad.exe
DoCommand::Execute cmd_buffer rad.exe line 
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp16
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp16
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp16
A320  screen w640 height h400 bpp16
Segmentation fault
/boot/local/games/DosBox #

 

[SiENcE]

A good DOS Game Archive. All Games are Shareware or Freeware.
I hope I can post this Link?

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/


Happy Testing.

 

[volcanic]

I'm going to test asap.This is really,really fantastic!!