Dosbox For Gp2x Available

[trooper]

Blockout huh?  You do know that there is a good version of this game running full speed on the Lynx emu right?

I didn't know that. A good thing, too, as I might never have had the motivation to do the port.

It's also on Megadrive (DrMD) and I believe Atari ST (OutcaST).

But I'm glad you weren't aware of that

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And Mame too.

Trooper

 

[DaviL]

heroes of might and magic 2 ?

 

[bjimba]

Just tried this, I get a black screen and a crash.

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Ooh. Sorry to hear that. If you give me some information as to what you tried, I can try to help. Were you trying the Blockout sample, or something else? If the Blockout sample, where did you get Blockout from?

 

[TKF15H]

Tried OneMustFall, then I edited the autoexec figuring I'd end up in a command prompt if it didn't run the game. Either way, it just dies. Is it supposed to show anything before it executes the actual game?
Did I do something silly? >_<

 

[bjimba]

Tried OneMustFall, then I edited the autoexec figuring I'd end up in a command prompt if it didn't run the game. Either way, it just dies. Is it supposed to show anything before it executes the actual game?
Did I do something silly? >_<

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No, that's exactly what you're supposed to do. If I can get hold of a copy of it, I'll give it a try here. It's a bit easier to debug when I can get a bash shell running at the same time (thanks to gfoot).

I expect the initial stabs at getting various DOS games working will be, erm, a bit rocky. So far, I've only tried two on the GP2X -- Blockout and Popcorn (a French public domain Arkanoid clone). But I've pulled out all my old 5-1/4 floppies to see what other tidbits I can find. I really want to see if I can get an interpreted GWBASIC/BASICA game to work. (You thought I was kidding in the Topic Title about DONKEY.BAS? Think again...)

 

[Muncher666]

heroes of might and magic 2 ?

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HAH! :lol:

You got to be kidding.

Allan.

 

[TKF15H]

rather than dig through floppies, check the-underdogs.org, they have a BIG collection of old stuff. OneMustFall may be too heavy on DOSBox for now, but it was the only DOS game I had in reach. Should have tried something older... pacman?

 

[JaqMs]

Try ZZT. Can anyone test it to see if how it works?

 

[aapje89]

what kind of dos games can be played on DosBox

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keen, pinball dreams, outrun, pushover, incredeble machine.... etc etc, I think almost all dos games, atleast every game i tried worked (on my pc).

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You have to keep in mind that this isn't a PC, and that (as I understand it) Dosbox requires a fair bit of power to run at a decent speed. Later DOS games might be a bit much for the 2X. That's what we're all wondering, is which DOS games will be playable on the 2X.

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I am not stupid you know...
thats why I wanted people to try keen, or pinball dreams, to see if it is possible.

 

[Emu&Co]

Perhaps you know them already:
Some REALLY great .diff Patches, which add some nice features to Dosbox. Especially The first one is one of the most interesting.

http://www.si-gamer.net/gulikoza/dosbox.html

 

[Hanz™]

I couldn't even get blockout to work. I don't know what I was doing wrong, I just saw a blackscreen.

 

[Wolfspirit]

Yeah that's all I get as well. I'll wait on this one.

 

[Hanz™]

Rather randomly it worked a second ago, but now it isn't working again.

Edit: Does it overclock?

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Hey, blockout works nicely! Magicland Dizzy freezes because it always starts in EGA (CGA not supported there) and so does every other game (because they are all EGA or VGA )
Do you plan to include EGA or even VGA support?

EDIT: Managed to get Paratrooper working, although its really slow. But it works, even with PC Speaker sound

EDIT2: Awesome! I am playing Commander Keen in VGA!! And Prehistorik is almost playable in VGA without sound.

 

[mots]

i tried it (did everything you wrote in the readme and the only thing I got was the screen fading black, before I came into the menu again.

FW 1.2.1 and NAND-readonly-patch, if that helps.

 

[WhiteFalcon]

i tried it (did everything you wrote in the readme and the only thing I got was the screen fading black, before I came into the menu again.

FW 1.2.1 and NAND-readonly-patch, if that helps.

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You have to modify all the paths in the .conf and .qpe files. If you are trying blockout without any modification, the dosbox folder has to be in the ROOT.

 

[mots]

i tried it (did everything you wrote in the readme and the only thing I got was the screen fading black, before I came into the menu again.

FW 1.2.1 and NAND-readonly-patch, if that helps.

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You have to modify all the paths in the .conf and .qpe files. If you are trying blockout without any modification, the dosbox folder has to be in the ROOT.

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thanks, didn't see that

 

[aapje89]

Hey, blockout works nicely! Magicland Dizzy freezes because it always starts in EGA (CGA not supported there) and so does every other game (because they are all EGA or VGA )
Do you plan to include EGA or even VGA support?

EDIT: Managed to get Paratrooper working, although its really slow. But it works, even with PC Speaker sound

EDIT2: Awesome! I am playing Commander Keen in VGA!! And Prehistorik is almost playable in VGA without sound.

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commander keen, YEEEY
is it full speed?

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Of course not, even CGA games are pretty slow and VGA games are slower. But its sort of playable.

 

[Hanz™]

Of course not, even CGA games are pretty slow and VGA games are slower. But its sort of playable.

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And no sound. ; )