Assidragon on 24/3/2005 at 23:14
Um, I wasn't talking about SS1... sorry about the confusion :)
ZylonBane on 24/3/2005 at 23:20
Well everyone but you is. What are you talking about?
Shadowcat on 24/3/2005 at 23:28
Quote Posted by FRJPadawan
Hello. I managed to download DOSBox 0.58
I'm just curious to know how it was that you ended up with such an old version? Google "dosbox" gives you the right page immediately. Where did you go looking?
Ajare on 24/3/2005 at 23:46
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Well everyone but you is. What are you talking about?
He's talking about how DosBox is useful for taking screenshots/recording sound from games that don't have the facility/necessary tools. But you know this. Why did you feel it necessary to have a go at him after he'd apologised for a very simple mix-up?
FRJPadawan on 25/3/2005 at 00:14
Thanks, Ajare, I got it to work now. I't doesn't work too well on 640x480 mode, and I imagine it's because my cpu isn't fast enough?
Shadowcat, I don't recall exactly where I found the older version, I was following various links I found on these postings. It may have been aep.emubase.de
As I play SS1 in 320x200, the top part of the screen (including the health gauge) is cropped off in fullscreen mode. Has anyone else seen this or have a way to have true fullscreen?
icemann on 25/3/2005 at 03:49
But I provided the link to the latest version of dosbox here in this very thread in my 1st post. Why go looking elsewhere? :confused:
ToxicFrog on 25/3/2005 at 13:57
Quote Posted by FRJPadawan
Thanks, Ajare, I got it to work now. I't doesn't work too well on 640x480 mode, and I imagine it's because my cpu isn't fast enough?
No-one's is, IME. Dosbox takes way more power than running the game directly. You might be able to improve performance by fiddling with the emulated CPU speed (ctrl+F11/F12).
Quote Posted by FRJPadawan
As I play SS1 in 320x200, the top part of the screen (including the health gauge) is cropped off in fullscreen mode. Has anyone else seen this or have a way to have true fullscreen?
I haven't seen this on SS1, but what it sounds like is that your monitor isn't calibrated right for 320x200 - try fiddling with vertical height and posititioning, and you should be able to get the whole thing on screen.
Chimpy Chompy on 26/3/2005 at 12:32
Well, I tried this on my Athlon xp 1500. It runs without complaint, but is too slow to be enjoyable. Cranking up CPU cycles doesn't help much.
So it looks like I'll be needing an upgrade to pay SS1 properly. Wahay, it's just like 10 years ago!
Trance on 26/3/2005 at 14:42
Thanks for the link to this thing. I've been trying for ages to get a setup that ran Master of Orion; now I gots it. R0X0RZ.
EDIT:
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
You know, it's fairly easy to extract the sounds directly from SS1's resource files.
How is it done?
icemann on 26/3/2005 at 17:23
You can also supposedly record sound files from games via dosbox also. Never done it before myself, so I have no idea at all of how to do it, but people are always talking about it over on the dosbox forums.
