I had the game working perfectly in Dosbox about 5 months ago but then I had to reformat my computer.
I have it up and running again, but it is not in full screen. The commands to get the game working are also different.
Before, I would get it to the Moon folder and type TEX197 to execute the game, now I have to type MOON.
I also want to get off the CDs, so copied the AP files to the folder. Is there anything else I need to do after that or do I have to set it to look for the files in the folder?
Thanks for any help.
EDIT
Okay, i originally had it running on VDMSound. I liked Dosbox though, can I still get it going full screen?
By the way, the TEX197.EXE file is located on the UKM installation disc.
It's basically the TEX3.EXE file (which the 'MOON' command executes), but with a later version of DOS4GW bound to it (v1.97 versus v1.95 in TEX3.EXE). To update the extender, you copy the TEX197.EXE over TEX3.EXE, making the 'new' TEX3.EXE the TEX197.EXE from the disc. After you do this, typing 'MOON' to start the game will display the DOS4GW loader reading 1.97 instead of 1.95 just before the game loads up.
here is the conf file. I figured out how to make it fullscreen, but I now can't get it to load.
[sdl]
# fullscreen -- Start dosbox directly in fullscreen.
# fulldouble -- Use double buffering in fullscreen.
# fullresolution -- What resolution to use for fullscreen: original or fixed size (e.g. 1024x768).
# windowresolution -- Scale the window to this size IF the output device supports hardware scaling.
# output -- What to use for output: surface,overlay,opengl,openglnb,ddraw.
# autolock -- Mouse will automatically lock, if you click on the screen.
# sensitiviy -- Mouse sensitivity.
# waitonerror -- Wait before closing the console if dosbox has an error.
# priority -- Priority levels for dosbox: lowest,lower,normal,higher,highest.
# Second entry behind the comma is for when dosbox is not focused/minimized.
# mapperfile -- File used to load/save the key/event mappings from.
# usescancodes -- Avoid usage of symkeys, might not work on all operating systems.
[dosbox]
# language -- Select another language file.
# memsize -- Amount of memory dosbox has in megabytes.
# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:hercules,cga,tandy,pcjr,vga.
# captures -- Directory where things like wave,midi,screenshot get captured.
language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=16
[render]
# frameskip -- How many frames dosbox skips before drawing one.
# aspect -- Do aspect correction, if your output method doesn't support scaling this can slow things down!.
# scaler -- Scaler used to enlarge/enhance low resolution modes.
# Supported are none,normal2x,normal3x,advmame2x,advmame3x,advinterp2x,advinterp3x,tv2x,tv3x,rgb2x,rgb3x,scan2x,scan3x.
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x
[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
# You can also let DOSBox guess the correct value by setting it to auto.
# Please note that this guessing feature is still experimental.
# cycleup -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.
core=normal
cycles=3000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20
[mixer]
# nosound -- Enable silent mode, sound is still emulated though.
# rate -- Mixer sample rate, setting any devices higher than this will
# probably lower their sound quality.
# blocksize -- Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering
# but sound will also be more lagged.
# prebuffer -- How many milliseconds of data to keep on top of the blocksize.
[midi]
# mpu401 -- Type of MPU-401 to emulate: none, uart or intelligent.
# device -- Device that will receive the MIDI data from MPU-401.
# This can be default,alsa,oss,win32,coreaudio,none.
# config -- Special configuration options for the device. In Windows put
# the id of the device you want to use. See README for details.
mpu401=intelligent
device=default
config=
[sblaster]
# sbtype -- Type of sblaster to emulate:none,sb1,sb2,sbpro1,sbpro2,sb16.
# sbbase,irq,dma,hdma -- The IO/IRQ/DMA/High DMA address of the soundblaster.
# mixer -- Allow the soundblaster mixer to modify the dosbox mixer.
# oplmode -- Type of OPL emulation: auto,cms,opl2,dualopl2,opl3.
# On auto the mode is determined by sblaster type.
# All OPL modes are 'Adlib', except for CMS.
# oplrate -- Sample rate of OPL music emulation.
[gus]
# gus -- Enable the Gravis Ultrasound emulation.
# gusbase,irq1,irq2,dma1,dma2 -- The IO/IRQ/DMA addresses of the
# Gravis Ultrasound. (Same IRQ's and DMA's are OK.)
# gusrate -- Sample rate of Ultrasound emulation.
# ultradir -- Path to Ultrasound directory. In this directory
# there should be a MIDI directory that contains
# the patch files for GUS playback. Patch sets used
# with Timidity should work fine.
[speaker]
# pcspeaker -- Enable PC-Speaker emulation.
# pcrate -- Sample rate of the PC-Speaker sound generation.
# tandy -- Enable Tandy Sound System emulation (off,on,auto).
# For auto Tandysound emulation is present only if machine is set to tandy.
# tandyrate -- Sample rate of the Tandy 3-Voice generation.
# disney -- Enable Disney Sound Source emulation.
[bios]
# joysticktype -- Type of joystick to emulate: none, 2axis, 4axis,
# fcs (Thrustmaster) ,ch (CH Flightstick).
# none disables joystick emulation.
# 2axis is the default and supports two joysticks.
joysticktype=2axis
[serial]
# serial1-4 -- set type of device connected to com port.
# Can be disabled, dummy, modem, directserial.
# Additional parameters must be in the same line in the form of
# parameter:value. Parameters for all types are irq, startbps, bytesize,
# stopbits, parity (all optional).
# for directserial: realport (required).
# for modem: listenport (optional).
# Example: serial1=modem listenport:5000
I think, the problem may be, that you just copied the folders from each disk to your hard disc, whereas you have to copy the contents of MASTERTX\CHAP01\ to your installation directory (after you normally installed the game of course).
Wintermute wrote:In addition you might raise the cycles to 10,000 in Dosbox.conf.
If you are using DOSBOX 0.65 you need to use the CONF file provided WITH 0.65 and edit it because there were some changes which make the CONF file from previous versions not wholly compatible. Also, there is a new setting in 0.65 which helps the cycles TREMENDOUSLY. Set Core to DYNAMIC and Cycles should be set to AUTO. This should make Tex run perfectly!
I actually got my UAKM working almost to perfection last night. There is still a little sound stutter when there's dialogue - mostly when there's an animation along with the dialogue but other than that the game works perfectly. The syncronisation of the sound in the cutscenes is perfect and the game doesn't crash to Windows anymore, so I'm all in all happy about that!
The way I did was that I installed the HD/DVD installer that Wintermute made ... I use DosBox 0.65 and have mounted that needs to be mounted. One difference I made though is that I - as Sotaria said - changed the two lines in the DosBox Conf. as follows:
From:
core=normal
cycles=3000
To:
core=dynamic
cycles=auto
That seems to do the trick for me! I played it halfway through day 1 last night and not once did I encounter a problem playing the game besides the little sound stuttering I mentioned earlier!
