dos shell, thats what i meant yeah.

thanks.

xport, it would be nice to have a tab on the menu to take you to the dos shell. or even an option to always boot straight into it.

just an idea, up to you whether you choose to implement it.

not too sound all l33t, or to sound like an old man (15 years is not old).

but dos pwned!!!!!!

I have a game that uses dos4gw.exe to run(it is in the games directory). But when I go to run the game...it tells me I have to run the setup for the game. When I run the setup, I set it as I need(mostly autodetecting). But, when I go to save and quit, it goes back to dos shell with an error like:

D0S/4GW error (2001): exception 0Bh (segment not present) at 70:00004503

That is just the first line. The game is Warcraft(the first one).


Is there a problem with DOS/4GW? Or does anyone know how to fix this. I didn't see anything about this anywhere.

Install it on your PC first, then transfer it over to the xbox after you have installed it on your pc...

have you thought about putting save states in dosbox, there are quite a few games that i would need that for


and im pretty sure this is a bug

each game shares the same configuration, if i change any settings for one game, it will do it for the rest of them, this also happens with the controllers
this is all very annoying
because of this your download configuration from your web site would be worthless since it would configure every game


and can anyone help me with this, every other time i enter a certain game i get some type of error
i'll use the game raptor as an example
i played the game for the first time and it ran perfect, i turned off my xbox and came back later to play that game and it said something like
16 meg error (15) protected against 386 and 486 or something like that
this also happened with alot of other games

i restart my xbox and those games work but now other games get that error
why the hell is it doing that, and is there a sure way to fix it


one more stupid question
on the virtual keyboard, is there some way that i can press more than one key at a time on it
its probably a no, but im just wondering since i would like to get some of those codes working for some games

i can play scorched earth!!! woot

Awsome I just got Quest for Glory II up and running but I cant use the keyboard to work (although I did with another version of dosbox but it ran verry slow) anybody have any info? BTW this is sooo cool to be able to play my old dos games I forgot how fun they where!!! Now if only I could find my Monkeys Island games

I'm having trouble with The 7th Guest...
I've FTP'd the HDfiles over to the xboxHD, and have inserted T7G CD... I've tried out all kinds of settings, but everytime I get an error the game can't find the selected soundcard.

Can somebody also look into this please?

All the patches can be found HERE

I just have a real quick question/request. I'm sure everyone here has read on the main page about the new Magic Box FXPS. It is a product that allows one to connect a ps/2 keyboard and mouse to xbox. Though it was designed for first person shooter games, I was wondering if it can be used for games in dosxbox? So I guess the question is can it be used and if not will support be added in a later version? No pressure.

Im having some problems with some sierra adventure games crashing when moving the mouse. police quest 4, quest for glory 4, gaberial knight. All of them crash the very second i move the mouse (or move mouse using gamepad too) ive tried them on pc version of dosbox and they work fine.

Any ideas??

Dosbox OpenSource Direct3D patch

http://home.amis.net/lkslavi/dosbox.html

Maby you can make it work on the Xbox Port?

I can't get my USB mouse to work at all. Any ideas? Also I can't use IMGMOUNT. It just seems to lock up the machine.

no, but i have exactly the same problem.

I've got a v1.2 xbox, original 10GB HD, I'm running a late december build of XBMC for my dashboard and I can't get DosXbox to work.

I have a wireless USB keyboard combo too (gyration) but I unplugged it.

It just goes to a black screen. I installed to f:\apps\emulation\dosxbox\ but tried it on E as well. I fiddled with the .ini file (not much to do there, really) and tried loading avalaunch first, then DosXbox, still no go.

Any thoughts?

the xport of the commodore 64 emu works perfect, as well as Gentoox and other things.. bochs works too but it is not as well designed IMO.

Help?

CORRECTION:

If I start DosXbox v8 via avalaunch (so boot to xbmc, then avalaunch, then dosxbox) it works GREAT.

Something in xbox media center not cleaning up fully?

Weird. And w3rd.

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is possible, but could a custom config.sys be configured for each game? I'm trying to do a LASTDRIVE setting in order to try and get my X-Wing CD and Tie Fighter CD to work.

I installed the games to my pc harddisk, copied those installed files over to the Xbox and ran install.exe there. It found the soundcard settings and everything is looking good, but it can't find either -original- cd in the drive (all further emulator configuration ie cdrom mapping is done properly as far as I can see).

I would like to set LASTDRIVE in order to give it all one last try with fakecd, and see if X-Wing or Tie Fighter understands that. But fakecd doesn't work due to no driveletters available... which... can be set using LASTDRIVE in config.sys

Or have I completely lost track here somewhere? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

that could be very usefull and the games would look much better but xport has seemed to have disapparead

He's prolly too busy porting DirectX9 (And WindowsXP while he's at it) for your suggestion to work ;)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem. I'm trying to play Ravenloft 2: Stone prophet and it gives me a "Bufmgr error 102 parameter=0" everytime. Whats weird is that it plays on my PC in Dosbox and on my xbox with Dosbox v4.01-hcl just fine, but Xport's Dosbox wont get past that bufmgr error. Any suggestions or am I out of luck? Thanks!

Nevermind, the solution was to not mount a CDrom at all.

I think I may have had a similar problem to you with my X-Wing Collector's Edition CD-ROM. I ran the install program on a Windows 98 PC and copied the installed directory over to the Xbox as recommended. However, when I tried to run the game, it claimed that I was trying to run it from the hard drive and not the CD, which was not the case at all.

I actually found out the solution by checking the compatibility list for the PC version of DosBox; there was a comment against X-Wing that said you had to run BWING.EXE instead of XWINGCD.BAT to start the game. I tried it in DosXBox, and it ran!

So it might be worth trying to run any .EXE (or even .BAT) files, even if they're not the ones you would have launched on a real 386. Give it a shot, it might just work!

(Unfortunately, I don't have high hopes for TIE-fighter CD running terribly well; my X-Wing CD runs terribly jerkily, think it's a step too far for DosXBox at the moment The disk version of X-Wing runs a lot better though )

I can't get the analog sticks to act like analog sticks. I've tried all of the combinations of mapping analog to the left and right sticks, hardcoding joystick, etc...

Can anybody help me?

v6 doesnt not crash seirra games when moving mouse......

also prince of persia 2 shadow and the flame freezes when u die but when you push esc and space bar it will unfreeze?

will there be a release with 0.63 source?

I´m really happy with DosXbox because it lets me play my beloved Legend of Kyrandia series on my tv. I`m using my original CD-Roms and they only run from CD. I tried a lot of settings including cycles and which SoundBlaster emulation to use but there´s always a STUTTERING when the characters start talking.

Any help ?

Bless Y´all !

Don't seem to get imgmount to work screen just goes black.

Request:
It would be nice if you could pop up a onscreen controller to check wich button is mapped where.

I have also just started playing Legend of Kyrandia on my XBOX but I find that its a little annoying to have the original cd in the drive when I am running it. (It may also be the cause of the stuttering). I have tried all different methods to get DOSXBOX to run the cd off the hard drive. The problems I have encountered is that in DOSXBOX the mounting of the cdrom does not support sub dirs (well anything that's not your actual cd rom). I also tried creating an iso image of the CD and then running IMGMOUNT this goes to a black screen and froze. In desperation I tried copying FAKECD across and running but then I have the dilema of no LASTDRIVE in the config.sys. Any one have any ideas....

Having said all that I think this emulator rocks!!!

Is there any change that DOSxbox will have network support?




-stelios

This might be stupid question.. Can DOSXBox run a DOS web browser. If it could would it even work being that doesn't have network support. I'm looking for a way to surf the web using the XBOX.

Hey all, whats the difference between DosXbox V8, and DosXBox V4-hcl-beta?

I got the latter one from "a chat client" that you always are told to use to get these emulators, and that's the only version they had. So can someone clarify the version issues?

Hmmm, nevermind the above question, I decided to go with V8. Anyhoo, how do you change the screen resolution? Im trying to play Quest for Glory remake, and it wont start and it gives me an error. "There was a problem initializing graphics mode 320x200 (Problem: Resolution not supported)"

I only found how to change the video mode from 480p to 720p, etc....

Any help in here?

Hi...I'm a total Noobie to Dosxbox. All I want to do is learn the basics to using it and setting it up so that it will work, but I can't find a faq or any information I can understand to help me do that. When I start the program, it takes me to a dos prompt, but I can't do anything other than just stare at it. What should I do? do I need to use a keyboard of some sort? I don't understand hand any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Go to the dosbox official website http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 and browse the forums, there's tons of help there. You should also have an .nfo or readme.txt or something with it that will tell you the basics, it's pretty easy once you learn a few basic commands and Xport's interface makes everything SUPER easy on the Xbox (as opposed to the pc version).

I am having the same problem as the above newbie/\
I am looking at the forums, but arnt all those for DOSbox on PC's?

I hope this thread isn't too old, and sorry if it is, but its the only place where I can ask for help!

Anyway I have tried getting Command and Conquer Red Alert the Aftermath to run on DosXbox, but I get the dreaded NO CD FOUND error.

I read the read me, but I couldn't figure out exactly how to help this problem.

Also I do know that the game engine works somewhat ok, because I ran the Command and Conquer DOS demo for a while, though it ended up crashing..

Try finding a No-CD crack for the game, maybe that will fix it.

OK, I'm amazed I can't find this, but maybe someone can help me.

Where on earth does this app hide the configuration files? The documentation just says edit them and there very well hidden because I can't seem to find it.

All I need to do is map the keyboard arrow keys to the controllers dpad and the gui for it doesn't seem to allow that, as it only lets you map joystick keys to the controller. So how do I go about mapping arrow keys and something like control to a button on the xbox controller?

just got malcolm's revenge running on dosbox for xbox after alot ini hacking

its the first game i got working.
all the other gave my problems with the sound install. (7th guest, under a killing moon) gobliiins worked disk version
I loved this game so i wanted to get it running on my xbox.

how did i do it.

i first installed it on my pc.

first problem xp will not write the player.ini file
so i made a one from MALCOLM.INI
then i installed it without sound. the player.ini file get updated.
so you will have

[Game]
RunStyle=DOS
[Player]
SoundEnabled=false

and transferd it to my xbox but got a error. FILEDATA.FDT not found or something like that the file is on the cd.

but the xbox says found soundcard gravis. so i used my edit to change player.ini to
[Game]
RunStyle=DOS
[Player]
SoundEnabled=Gravis

transfer player.ini to xbox.

because it will not find my cd i used a no cd crack
put all data from malcolm (CD) in the malcolm install directory.
gave it a try running main.exe and it worked only no movies need to fix this.
maybe if i burn a copy to a cdrw my dvd will read my cd and i dont need a nocd crack.

but first gone play malcolm abit.

if some need the player file for xbox just make a player.ini in a text edit and place
[Game]
RunStyle=DOS
[Player]
SoundEnabled=false
in it. save it and your done.

Greetz and good luck

ps anyone got 7th guest running?
dosbox is cool just like scumm. love the old games they are better then doom 3

I got 7th guest to work but it was a while back so bear with me. I'm assuming you installed on your PC then transfered to xbox first. In dosbox go to your T7g.bat file and press X to configure. set to these settings:


SBlaster type- SB16.
Sblaster mixer- yes
sblaster OPL- auto
sblaster base- 220
sblaster IRQ- 7
sblaster dma- 1
sblaster hdma- 5
gus enabled- yes
gus base- 240
gus IRQ1-5
gus IRQ2-5
gus dma1-3
gus dma2-3
PC speaker enabled-YES
Disney Enabled- yes
Vsync-no

everything else default. pop in disc 1 of the 7th guest and run it. hope that helps

I'm tryin to get beast within or phantasmagoria to run if thats even possible.

hi thanks for your help but no help at all ''érror couldn't load the sound driver''
got to try again

got it to work just installed it on my xbox and kept installing to get it work.

Is there any way to bind the arrow keys to the DPAD? It's not in the GUI and it's a pretty basic and vital function.

That patch is where your going wrong. the patch is to get it running on windows32 based systems (it was a beta version of a directx loader made by trilobyte)

I've managed to get T7G running under Dosxbox, and although you have to use a few frameskips to get it running decently, its very playable.

go head and install it on your pc, and copy both the cd and the installed folder to the hdd.

i find the best way to get games running under dosxbox is to start out with an empty bat file and type the commands in manually

mount d f:\t7gCD (point to where your 7th guest cd is)

then run t7g from the install folder (wherever you put it) and you shouldnt have any problems

on a side note, the game is not as good as i remember, and some of the puzzles are downright outrageous even remembering parts of their solutions (cans in the pantry, anyone?)

its still a blast from the past, and dont despair, it will DEFF run on your xbox.

I've recently purchased a wireless desktop from Logitech (USB, natch), and I've been able to connect the receiver end to my new fangled USB cord currently plugged into port 2 of my xbox. I "connect" both the keyboard and the mouse, and so far, only the keyboard works.

Has anyone had any luck figuring out why the mouse does not work?

I've tried working with the configuration for the particular game I am trying to run, (mouse on USB instead of LAnalog, etc.) but I am not quite sure what the effects of doing all that really is. HAs anyone specifically gotten such a wireless desktop to run in DosxBox? Would using an integrated keyboard/trackball(or touchpad) be a better idea? Even simpler, has anyone even gotten a wired keyboard and mouse to work?


If you prefer to reply privately, my email is jameskight@earthlink.net.

Thanks!

James

This emu is great. I've been playing my Dungeon Hack and Dark Sun I and II on it, and it runs way better than it did on my real 386 dx 33 and my 486 dx2 66 (both with 4, then 8, and then 16 megs of ram...with a 520 megabyte hard drive!)

Okay, no bragging material these days...

Xport, is there any hope of save states in the future? Or is it just too complicated to get the machine state, or require too much hard disk space? I'm hopeful, you see...

Dungeon Hack can't be completed in one sitting, and it keeps giving me a, "...couldn't open savegame directory for reading..." and then a prompt when I go to camp and save.

I tried this in Dark Sun, and it seemed to save fine, so that isn't a big issue. But a romp in DH and I always have to restart from scratch. It's not life-threatening, but save states or a resolved save system would be cool.

And if I haven't said it enough yet, Xport, you rock. I love Neogenesis and DosXbox. In fact, I only really use those two emus.

To all those who want to map the cursor keys - numeric keypad MAY be the answer. I was reading a lot of faqs and docs about DOSXBOX and somewhere I think it said that the number lock key is mapable. SO you map the NUMLOCK then map 2, 4, 6 and 8 to buttons. Shut off number lock and you have your cursor keys, right? Did anyone try this out? And no, I don't know how to map NUMLOCK....

I may be mistaken...