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Dosbox 0.72...HOORAY!!!

Borjis

Borjis

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I decided to try out Dosbox again after having lousy results before on previous versions.

they really got it right this time.

EVERY DOS game I have is working perfectly, I can finally scrap that old pentium 100 I had lying around just for playing these.

25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites run flawless. Hell even that annoying popping sound when the characters spoke on Judgement Rites on the old pc is not happening with the emulator.

A Final Unity even works!!

WOW!

I'm using "magic disc 2.7" (free) to mount .iso images so cut scene playback and disc access is instant as well.
 
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Whenever I try to install A final Unity, it says that there's an issue with my CD-Rom speed, does magic disc fix that?
 
LeadHead said:
Whenever I try to install A final Unity, it says that there's an issue with my CD-Rom speed, does magic disc fix that?
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I ran into that as well. It's a funny message that a lot of the older games (wing commander III did it as well) analyzing software thinks there is a problem even though the cdrom read speed greatly surpasses the requirement.

I got it around it by doing the minimum install.

I would encourage the use of magic disc though since its free and gets you hard drive speed access times (its like a full install anyways ya know?)

It did lock up once when I went into battle (the gui switches to tactical mode) but that was occasionally problematic and buggy in the original game running on a DOS PC. I think the battle mode was one aspect of the game they didn't debug all the way through. It seems like Worf's comments and the weapon sounds and timing in between was always off even on a system completely optimized for the game.

EDIT: in the conf file under CPU change core=full to prevent lockup/crash in tactical mode.
 
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Borjis said:
I decided to try out Dosbox again after having lousy results before on previous versions.

they really got it right this time.

EVERY DOS game I have is working perfectly, I can finally scrap that old pentium 100 I had lying around just for playing these.

25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites run flawless. Hell even that annoying popping sound when the characters spoke on Judgement Rites on the old pc is not happening with the emulator.

A Final Unity even works!!

WOW!

I'm using "magic disc 2.7" (free) to mount .iso images so cut scene playback and disc access is instant as well.
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Good for you! I loved those old Interplay games.
 
I'm pretty sure there's a DOSBox setting that allows you to tell the program that you're trying to run that the CDRom drive is running at a speed that makes sense to it.

But barring that, would it also not be possible, if not more convenient, to rip your copy of the game to an .iso and then run the game from your hard disk as an image?
 
HellRaiser said:
I'm pretty sure there's a DOSBox setting that allows you to tell the program that you're trying to run that the CDRom drive is running at a speed that makes sense to it.

But barring that, would it also not be possible, if not more convenient, to rip your copy of the game to an .iso and then run the game from your hard disk as an image?
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yep exactly, thats what magic disc does, build .iso and mount them.
I posted the workaround for the cdrom failure. apparently the installer patch also bypasses the failure and makes the game run without the cd mounted.

Every dos game I have runs great on this build of dosbox. YAY!!!
 
I am having problems with A Final Unity. The tactical section runs at absolute lightning speed, and battles end in seconds. The mouse also moves incredibly slowly. Anyone else experienced and solved these issues?
 
donners22 said:
I am having problems with A Final Unity. The tactical section runs at absolute lightning speed, and battles end in seconds. The mouse also moves incredibly slowly. Anyone else experienced and solved these issues?
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try slowing down the cpu cycles (i think it might be the - and + keys.)
of the game before tactical loads.
 
So, I haven't been able to find my CD for A Final Unity for years. I downloaded a torrent of the game today, and I can get the install to run, but after that when I try to play the game, it says:

"Fatal error. Could not find resource file - Check CDPath in sttng.ini."

When I check the CDPath it reads:

"CD=."

I know this can't be correct. I've tried changing it to the CDPath in the .ini file included in the torrent file, and I get the same message. Can anyone help with this??? Thanks in advance!
 
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