Dos box - Multiple issues.

noelburke82

Hi there,

I have had multiple issues when running Dosbox.

The two main game I have tested were "Wacky Wheels" and "Commander Keen".

In box games I have issues with control relating to both my X-Box controller and PS3 controller.

The Left joystick seems to continuously force the character and menus to scroll in a downwards direction. I have calibrating the control pad settings numerous times and nothing helps.

The second issue I have noticed (only with Wacky Wheels so far), is that the music slows down on several title screens, as well as the load screens slowing to almost nothing.
The actualy performance of the game once running was o.k, but not great,

The third issue is Dosbox no longer works since deleting these two games. The "DosBox" screen appears, and then the game wont load, and returns to the main emulation station screen.
Is there a way to restore Doxbox back to default?

Sorry for so many questions!

nadenislamarre

there are problably still some work to do on dosbox.
i have only old games that i played when a child that don't need a pad.
games for dosbox are often dependant of the original computer : my games were coded to run at maximum speed on a 4Mhz computer, thus, on recent computer, without slow down dosbox, it it too fast and unplayable.
So, probably, we should add some kind of options for dosbox but before analyse the options and what can be done.

To reinitialize an emulator configuration : remove the dosbox folder in /recalbox/share/system/config/dosbox and reboot the system, the default folder will be recreated.

noelburke82

I have deleted this folder and will report back.

Is there any testing you would like me to do?

noelburke82

This did not work.

Do you have any further suggestions or diagnostics?

noelburke82

Can anyone still assist?

nadenislamarre

sorry, i've a lot of work already on batocera, for the moment, i cannot take time on the dosbox.
any external hep is welcome ;-)

noelburke82

Its a shame that I have been waiting so long for some to assist, so I have started doing some digging.

First, the issues with games not loading.
I have made sure that I had followed the instructions for games folders and batch files to the letter.
This is the instructions in the DOS folder -
"## RECALBOX - PC ##

Put your dos games in this directory.

Each game must be placed in a directory having the .pc extension.
In each directory, a dosbox.bat file must contain the command line to run the game.

For example :
miniputt.pc/
miniputt.pc/dosbox.bat
miniputt.pc/MP.DAT
miniputt.pc/MP.EXE

and dosbox.bat contains : MP.EXE"

For what ever reason, as described before, my game (Wacky Wheels) would load, then wouldn't.

I have tried adding an extra line to the dosbox.bat while to see if the game would load -
"@echo off"
"ww.exe"
And guess what, the game loaded!

But have a look at this capture -
Z:>set ROOT=/recalbox/share/roms/dos/wacky.pc

Z:>MOUNT C "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/wacky.pc"
Drive C is mounted as local directory /recalbox/share/roms/dos/wacky.pc/

Z:>C:
C:>CALL DOSBOX.BAT

C:>∩╗┐echo off
Illegal command >∩╗┐echo off.

C:>ww.exe

For what ever reason, Dosbox will not call the DOSBOX.BAT file unless and extra line is added, even if its an illegal command!

If I remove the @echo off line, and just use a blank line, the game loads with an error as well.
Who knows why adding an illegal line is letting the game load?

I would still like some help on the performance issues, and joystick calibration.

aarkay14

Something to do with Linux I guess...

bigblockentmt

What does this mean and how do I do it?? I know it sound easy but im amazed no one made a video for dummies

Readme.txt

RECALBOX - DOS

Put your dos games in this directory.
Each game must be placed in a directory having the ".pc/.dos" extension.
In each directory, a dosbox.bat file must contain the command line to run the game.

For example :

miniputt.pc/
miniputt.pc/dosbox.bat
miniputt.pc/MP.DAT
miniputt.pc/MP.EXE
and dosbox.bat contains : MP.EXE
To quit a game, press ctrl+f9.

I can get in to my RecalBox Via network and see all the files. I had to put my files in the /recalbox/share/system as this is the only place it mounts in.

If I use the SUMOSYS and go to IBM it then shows me the Keen.pc folder, I had to make it so the System recognize a file and Enables Dos/IBM.
Click on Keen and DosBox opens and hear we go with the dame commands.

I can mount the C drive but the dame thing goes to the wrong directory.
/recalbox/share/system

where the games are, witch I cant get to and should not have to.
/recalbox/share/roms/dos/keen/

I should not even need to do this as I see videos of people just clicking the game and it starts up right away.

Side note
I seen a Youtube video with someone having a +start dosbox.sh file

All in all can someone help me figure out how to boot a game without using the mounting in dosbox.