So have you tried navigating the screen using your keyboard arrows? Or the tab key? I can't remember for sure whether Pandora Directive or UAKM had mouse enabled for the sound setup, but I'm suspecting they didn't.

Hi Jenny, and yes, I have tried to navigate with arrows and tabs. I'm not sure if I tried it with UAKM, though. I uninstalled that one, but Pandora is still there. I guess I can retry just for grins. Thanks for you help. BTW, I'm not sure if any of this works with Ripper, but I tried it anyway. Would LOVE to replay that one.

Ripper is supposed to be supported as of DOSBox 0.63, but so is Pandora Directive. You may want to post over on VOGONS.
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewforum.php?f=33

There's probably some setting in DOSBox that I don't know about. I really need to do more research on DOSBox some day. I've hardly used it at all.

TopherAce, hi,

Firstly, have you tried following my instructions in Steve's XP Games Corner for running Pandora Directive in DOSBox? It doesn't sound like you are doing the right things. For instance, you shouldn't be installing the game with DOSBox running, IIRC. You also need the TEX4.EXE patched version.

Secondly, Ripper is, like, *the hardest* game of all to get running in DOSBox. The only way to do it that I know of is described in this thread on VOGONS:

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=12777&highlight=ripper

The relevant details in that thread are here:

And the fact that you need to set up DOSBox to install a VESA driver at startup:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount C C:\
C:
UNIVBE51\UNIVBE

I believe you can obtain that VESA driver via Inferno's Ripper setup.

I had exchanged something like 15 e-mails with one reader, before he eventually stumbled upon that thread and finally got it working!

Good luck,
MetzO'Magic

Thank both of you, Jenny and MetzO. I tried out VOGONS to see if anyone had the same issue I've had, but I didn't know about using Tex4 executable. I'll go check that out and thanks once again.

Sorry TopherAce, I've just realised that I confused you there with some misinformation

In fact, you only need the patched version of the TEX4.EXE file if you are using VDMSound. With DOSBox, it's fine to use the original .exe file. But I think you are still doing something wrong, so it wouldn't hurt to take a look at my setup instructions.

BTW, how fast is your processor? VDMSound might be a better bet unless it's at least 3GHZ.

Regards,
MetzO'Magic

I think I might be doing something wrong, too, but have no idea just what. I have SP2 and a bunch of updates on this PC and I'm using DOSbox 0.65 and found nothing addressing that particular one directly. I followed Inferno's general drill and got a lot of help from that and also wanted to thank her for that. I thought the help for doing DOSbox was pretty straight forward. The Tex games are my favorites, but who knew? Thank you, Jenny and Inferno for the info and cleaner running PC.

TopherAce, hi,

Send me your dosbox.conf file. I'll see if there's anything amiss in there.

Cheers,
MetzO'Magic

Thank you Steve for helping me with Dosbox. I truly appreciate all your patience and skill.

I finally loaded Dosbox in an older laptop I had sitting around with WIN ME, and started to load in "The Dame was loaded" but it said I didnt have enough memory and I know I do, can you tell me how to get more memory? Do I need to rewrite something to the file? Im not sure what to do now and would appreciate any help you might be able to give me.
I was able to load it in without Dosbox but there was some kind of terrible noise going on for music.The voices were fine, but the other noise was awful so I thought I might be able to improve it in dosbox.If I can get it loaded in that is.Ive heard its alot like Tex Murphy so Im really dying to play this one.

Thanks, Helen

According to this
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?showID=2000&letter=T

There's a sound patch for Dame Was Loaded here
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=pc&file=damepat.zip&ref=ps

Might make it sound better in Win ME.

Great! thanks so much Jenny, Ill give it a try this evening when I get home from work.

Hi Steve..........

I need help with Discworld 1..I got Dosbox ,but I haven't a clue how to load the game...The game is on CD...I have XP...I am LOST....

I am not very techinical......so Please help in Laymens words

Thanks

Darleen, hi,

Just exit this topic, and you will see a link to 'DOSBox FAQs' at the top of the GLITCHES, BUGS & PATCHES forum.

Have a read of that. It's really only a matter of editing a few things into the dosbox.conf file, starting up dosbox.exe, and you're away.

Regards,
Steve

Thanks Steve

Now I got it to run ...but I have no sound using VDM

EDit: Sorry Steve I didn't see you posted on my tread..

Hi Steve! I'm loving Pandora Directive and UAKM, never thought I'd be able to play them so well again. Thank you, once more.
NOW, I've done all the preliminary stuff and loaded...RIPPER. It plays beautifully, but I need to get a VESA driver. I went to H. Packard, 'splained my situation, got a Vesa download but I can't find it! I have graphics, with no sound. I loaded the game per Inferno's direction with VDMS (sans Margaritas). The 'Riper' test had sound/music. Can you help?

TopherAce, hi,

See page 12 of this thread for the instructions I gave concerning how to get Ripper working in DOSBox.

Good luck,
MetzO'Magic
P.S. Sorry for the delay in replying. Currently languishing on a beach in Goa, India

New version of DosBox is out.

Skeeter, hi,

Thanks for the heads up!

Indeed, v7.0 has been released, superseding v6.5. The link to the DOSBox news page is:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

A lot of fixes/improvements, perhaps the most notable of which are:

* Speed up the dynamic cpu core (certain games get much faster).
[metzomagic says:] I never tried using the dynamic core. Always ran with the default core=normal. Anyone else tried this?

* Better and more configurable joystick support.

* Improved CDROM detection and support.

* Speed up the screen drawing code.

* Added support for different keyboard layouts.

* Various fixes to the (C/E/V)GA emulation.

* Extended and improved all types of emulated memory. (umb/ems/xms)

* Added a few more graphic scalers.
[metzomagic says:] Will have to try some of the new scalers, as a 640 x 480 screen looks really pixelated on a 19 in. monitor! I've been usin the default scaler=normal2x. Frankly, I tried all of them and that was the best.

Cheers,
MetzO'Magic

Just downloaded it --- looks nice.

I agree with the 2x scaler (I got a 20in flatscreen)

inferno

does anyone know if DOSBox 7.0 works wth Vista???

inferno

I use the Normal 2X as well -- however... I specify Render Method: Surface, with a Full Screen Size of 800*600 -- it looks perfect on my 19" LCD.

InlandAZ, hi,

That's a good tip, thanks! Will try it the next time I run DOSBox.

MetzO'Magic

Hi Steve..

I just downloaded the New Dosbox...When I got to the DOSBox.conf file. I right click on it,But there is no Edit in the file...How can I edit this file if there is no edit option..
Thanks

Right-click it, choose Open With, and look for Notepad as an option.
I assume you're getting to dosbox.conf through My Computer or Windows Explorer.
You could also open Notepad and then browse to dosbox.conf (might have to choose "all files" instead of just txt files).

Thanks Jenny

I will try that

EDIT: Oh WOW That worked..

Thanks :kiss: