FALLOUT originals on Pandora?


I bought it on GOG and downloaded the DOS patch and was able to get it to run on my cc pandora @ 800, but sadly not at a usable speed. Never tried on qemu and maybe on the 1ghz pandora it may run better but not for me.
 
How do he get it running?


I'm going to buy GOG Fallout (easier than ripping)... Then what do I do?


No instructions around...
 
You could use the wiki page as a start or the thread


First you need to create a virtual machine, than install a DOS (DR DOS is free, but MS DOS is more compatible) and then install the game. Most of this should be done on a real PC.


You can also us a premade image from ingoreis and try to install Fallout in there.


Edit: :ph34r: by mcobit
 
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@Mcobit - What OS image did you use to get Fallout to play that good? I'm still getting my head around which one to focus on... Win98 was a bit too slow to my taste on my 1Ghz Pandora so I'm sticking to Win95. Or maybe you went with DOS?


Any recommendations on tips of make win95 faster? Apart from the additional parameters to be included in Qemu... I went through the Qemu thread last night and didn't find a lot on that.
 
kingoddball said:
I had a run at it. Ripped my Fallout disk. Didn't get detected. Tomorrow.


I just found an open source fallout engine:


http://wiki.fifengin...Getting_started


Can someone see if this could work?
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fife is now just fallout-like engine. When the project began it intended to be a complete emulator but at some point the project became concerned about legal issues associated with at the very least special. there used to be a faq about it on their wiki but it has since been removed.


http://forums.fifengine.net/index.php?topic=122.msg679#msg679


the engine appears to no longer support fallout resources either.


http://forums.fifengine.net/index.php?topic=240.msg1178#msg1178
 
Anntao said:
@Mcobit - What OS image did you use to get Fallout to play that good? I'm still getting my head around which one to focus on... Win98 was a bit too slow to my taste on my 1Ghz Pandora so I'm sticking to Win95. Or maybe you went with DOS?


Any recommendations on tips of make win95 faster? Apart from the additional parameters to be included in Qemu... I went through the Qemu thread last night and didn't find a lot on that.
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Win95 is faster in general than 98, but if you have the dosversion, I'd recommend playing it with dos (MS- dr- or freedos). The touchscreen will not work, but it will be playable with nubs/external mouse.
 
If you have a working Windows 95 Image, you can just boot into DOS mode by hitting F8 before it gets to the Windows Logo and select command line only.. And it should be just as fast as running DOS by itself.


If you get motivated you can modify your Config.sys and autoexec.bat do give you an option to select if you want to boot into Windows or DOS Mode or make specific configs for specific games.. It's a bit of work but sometimes worth it..


examples: http://dos.rsvs.net/DOSPAGE/CONFMENU.HTM
 
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I've got Win95 running on Qemu on a 925mhz Rebirth edition and it's extremely slow, to the point that I'd consider it practically unplayable. Win95 also runs extremely slowly, though it is functional, and the Touchscreen does not align properly anyway.But the Win95 version on a 1ghz looks quite playable!
 
With ExaGear, I got Fallout Tactics to run on a 1Ghz Pandora. There are some issues with the videos and sound, and I had to use the OMAPFB fix since it's running in 800*600, but from the little I've played it seems playable. Fallout 1 and 2 should run better.
 
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I did a test run installing the DOS version of Fallout in Qemu, with a Dos image and it runs better. Still extremely slow framerate (Something along the lines of maybe 2-4 fps) but it's a bit more playable than it is running it in Win95. 
 
Have you used the latest Univbe?

That make under Dos lot of Things faster ^_^

This is the last released Version and its Free for personal Use from the Developers:

ftp://cyberia.dnsalias.com/pub/filebase/freedos/univbe67.exe

The Free Codes are in this File(Rescued them from an old not more Active Site from the UniVBE Devs)

http://forum.gp2x.de/download/file.php?id=1387

I do recommend to try to start Qemu without Adlib,only with SB16 and please use in Dos smartdrv for speedup loading Times.

And another important Thing,please try to start Qemu without any mounted CDROM or Floppy,only with your HDD Image.

Mounted CDROM Isos slow down the emulated System too.

Maybe this little Hints help ^_^

Edit:

Here is a little tweaked Qemu PND from me with other Options to speed up Qemu a little:

http://qemu.openpandora.org/PNDs/qemu.pnd

Please delete the old Apdata before running ^_^
 
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ingoreis said:
Have you used the latest Univbe?

That make under Dos lot of Things faster ^_^

This is the last released Version and its Free for personal Use from the Developers:

ftp://cyberia.dnsalias.com/pub/filebase/freedos/univbe67.exe

The Free Codes are in this File(Rescued them from an old not more Active Site from the UniVBE Devs)

http://forum.gp2x.de/download/file.php?id=1387

I do recommend to try to start Qemu without Adlib,only with SB16 and please use in Dos smartdrv for speedup loading Times.

And another important Thing,please try to start Qemu without any mounted CDROM or Floppy,only with your HDD Image.

Mounted CDROM Isos slow down the emulated System too.

Maybe this little Hints help ^_^

Edit:

Here is a little tweaked Qemu PND from me with other Options to speed up Qemu a little:

http://qemu.openpandora.org/PNDs/qemu.pnd

Please delete the old Apdata before running ^_^
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Tested this and:

Huzzah! Major performance difference! I'm running the same Dos mode version of Fallout 1 and its actually playable now. Initially when running the Univbe setup after rebooting, it would hang, but running the Univbe setup again seems to work. The additional options in this version of Qemu are nice, being able to tell it to boot to a CD/ISO when added is a nice feature.

For clarification:

Running a Rebirth with this version of Qemu, Set to Opp Max 4, 925mhz clock speed

A basic DRDos image with CDRom support and Univbe installed and configured

A Dos install (Actually a minimal install, and running a Fallout1 CD ISO) which I may later convert to a full disk image install now that it works properly

Qemu is not configured with Adlib, I don't currently have Smartdrv set up in the HDD Image but I will tweak that later when I find my proper Dos install CD with all my DOS tools

Framerate is significantly better, much closer to playing on an actual PC. Occasional frame drop from time to time, about 1 every couple of seconds or so. Worth trying!
 
I feel that ingoreis's tips should be put somewhere so that they can be easily found.  Maybe a sticky post/thread or the wiki.  I will probably not be able to find them when they apply to me.
 
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