4chan dospack 1.33a

[Anonymous No.6429746]

For those who are interested, sharing the latest iteration of my '4chan dospack', 1.33a

>What is it?
A pack tailored for DosBox which uses a simple menu, currently includes 75 games
You will find that most games have been optimized somehow (fixes, tweaks, patches etc.)

- Doesn't require tinkering/soundsetup/configuring controls
- Works without original game media (cd's)
- Has modern control scheme and 640x480 where possible
* Real DOS should work too but without the menu

>How do i install it?
- Check if you have a .rar compatible program (WinRAR, 7-Zip)
- Open this link: https://mega.nz/folder/CldGAahb#yn_8LkRHraywPgKJMp5pqA and download DOSGAMES.RAR
- Download the latest DosBox: https://www.dosbox.com

DosBox will be done first, so go ahead and install it (default path)
Now go to the DosBox install folder (under Program Files) and doubleclick DOSBox 0.74-3 Options.bat
Scroll down until you reach [autoexec], under there add these lines:

MOUNT E C:\DOSGAMES
E:
DOSGAMES.BAT

Close and save. Now create a folder in your C drive using Explorer (right click->new->folder), name it 'DOSGAMES'
Unpack the contents of DOSGAMES.RAR in the newly created DOSGAMES folder
You should now see 50 folders and 3 separate files in C:\DOSGAMES

Doubleclick the DosBox icon on your desktop and you'll see this menu: https://imgur.com/a/0QXlpGE
Press the letter/number/icon of your preferred game and it will start, have fun!

For more info please see the README.TXT in the mega link

>Ok, so where can i see a list of included games you faggot?
See pic related, or if i manage to fuck that up, see here: https://imgur.com/a/pLbgXP2

[Anonymous No.6429767]

You could provide dosbox and a direct access for every game to directly run in dosbox,

[Anonymous No.6429774]

>>6429746
tybg

[Anonymous No.6429784]

>>6429746
Good shit

[Anonymous No.6429920]

>>6429767
You mean like a windows shortcut? Yeah, i've done that before, but now all games are accesible through one central interactive menu which is a more seamless experience (imo)

[Anonymous No.6429926]

>>6429920
But that way you don't need to deal sight dos commands,

[Anonymous No.6429935]

>>6429926
Those DOSBox commands (mount) only need to be entered once in the dosbox config though, not everytime you start up the pack. Once you've configured it, it will stay there forever and everytime you start up DosBox it will open up the menu and you can start right away.

[Anonymous No.6430141]

does it also come with a freesync monitor?

[Anonymous No.6430723]

>>6430141
Sadly no, however 6 Ghanese pallbearers will parade infront of the door of anyone who asks for a freesync monitor in the future

[Anonymous No.6430741]

>>6429746
how do I play alien trilogy with music?

[Anonymous No.6430874]

>>6429746
Thanks bro

[Anonymous No.6430879]

>>6429746
Thanks for bringing attention to this!

[Anonymous No.6430881]

>>6429746
Really appreciate this, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.6431162]

>>6430741
Unfortunately there is no music with this version, it's a rip version without the CD image (meant to save space). Maybe you could find the CD image over at archive.org (.iso if you are lucky), copy it over to your HDD and mount the folder using the -t cdrom command.
>>6430874
>>6430879
>>6430881
Glad you like it guys

[Anonymous No.6431481]

This is extremely neat and I've been having a lot of fun with it for the past few hours. Is it possible to enable music in those korean games or is it the same story as with >>6430741

[Anonymous No.6431485]

>>6429746
If you're running IPFS, it wouldn't hurt to mirror it there.
For example, the Total Hardware 1999 collection:
ipfs://QmdomZW8mjDZyG3psvSbQPjmo2zrGS1rAuvCjnPzSGZRxk/

[Anonymous No.6431512]

>>6431162
>cd-audio
>.iso
got sum bad news bruv

[Anonymous No.6431758]

>>6431481
Same story, those games are so obscure it's hard to find non-rip versions. It was also a deliberate choice to go for rips to cut down on overall size of the pack (in comparison, exodos only uses full CD versions, but it's a whopping 500 GB, this pack is only 875 mb zipped). The other korean game, Zyclunt, is also pretty obscure. A full version exists but is Windows only.

[Anonymous No.6432382]

>>6429746
OP here, small update bump. Today v1.3 of Dark Forces DeHacker by CHEATER was released, just after i made the first post. So i incorporated it into the pack a few minutes ago, just follow the same megalink as in OP, readme was also updated accordingly.

What was changed:

Dark Forces now has crosshair support
Mouse handling was improved (better balancing of Y/X axis)

[Anonymous No.6432798]

>>6429746
How come you didn't include Princess Maker 2 in your pack?

[Anonymous No.6433074]

>>6432798
anon, i...

[Anonymous No.6435410]

Thank you sir.

[Anonymous No.6435419]

Why not just use Dosbox Game Launcher?

[Anonymous No.6435426]

>>6430741
>>6431162
Dude you need to be more specific for the laymen. Mounting an iso with something like virtual clone drive and assign it in dosbox as a different drive than c. I've always had problems mounting folders as cdroms.

[Anonymous No.6435614]

>>6435419
With this pack you don't need additional software like DBGL or D-Fend, only dosbox, i wanted to keep it barebones.

[Anonymous No.6435626]

>>6433074
You what? It's one of the best DOS games and it should be in this pack.

[Anonymous No.6437446]

Good job including Wacky Wheels and Tie-Fighter but no X-COM ?

[Anonymous No.6437451]

I'm not about to shit on your pack but are you aware of exodos? I think your efforts might be better spent helping them.

[Anonymous No.6437494]

>>6437451
i'm aware of exodos, but it's a totally different approach. I wanted to keep it small and optimize as many games as possible. His pack is a preservation project for archive.org and contains 7000 games (mostly unknown titles) and uses full-cd versions, making it 500GB big. Also his pack needs additional software to run. With this pack you can get playing in 5 minutes, and it has most of the famous titles. Much easier if you just want to dive into the best games quickly.

[Anonymous No.6437549]

>>6437446
Maybe in the next release i'll make a new subsection with games that are being requested here, like XCom and princess maker, system shock etc

[Anonymous No.6437597]

>>6429774
thank you big boy?

[Anonymous No.6437635]

>>6437446
Open X-Com is a thing, I'm unsure why you would want to use vanilla. If it's for music and whatnot, the PSX soundtrack is leagues better.

[Anonymous No.6437702]

>>6429746
Sweet pack! Will definitely leech it.
Any reason why it doesn't use the Community Edition of Dosbox? It has some neat fixes. It's called DosboxCE

[Anonymous No.6437710]

>>6437702
Any fork of DosBox should work, as long as they work with the same dos commands (mount, mount -u, ren, cd, end, begin etc.)

[Anonymous No.6439012]

Anyone else getting an error trying to run any of the Magic Carpet games?

All other games I've tried work well. Thanks anon!

[Anonymous No.6439591]

Thanks OP

[Anonymous No.6440139]

>>6439012
Can you describe the error you're getting? Is it with MC 1, HW or 2?

[Anonymous No.6442148]

Magic Carpet games throw a bunch of "illegal write to CS:IP" errors in the debug window and the game itself is frozen on a black screen. Just tried with the Dosbox Community Edition another anon mentioned earlier, same results. No biggie as I have Magic Carpet on GOG.

[Anonymous No.6442403]

Which version of MechWarrior 2 does it include (original/hardware accelerated)? Does it come with the expansion packs?

I ask because I had tried the original release through the RG Mechanics installer but it was missing all of the in-mission voices.

[Anonymous No.6442681]

Awesome OP. Any plans to add Civilization in the future?

[Anonymous No.6442775]

>>6442403
It's the non-accelerated software version, first release. It does not contain Mercenaries expansion pack. The female (in-game announcer voice) works with this one.

>>6442148
Hmm strange, because it works on both of my machines and on a friends' pc too. And afaik gog version is also using dosbox to play magic carpet. After some googling it seems to have something to do with memory management/dos4gw extender. In a few hours when i have time i'll see if i can change the .bat file for Magic Carpet, they say the 'loadfix' cmd should do the trick. It's hard testing for me though, because it works for me.

If you want to try it yourself, go to the carpet.bat file in c:\dosgames\carpet and right-click -> edit. Then type 'loadfix' (without apostrophe, just loadfix) on a new line between :BEGIN and the next line, like this:

:BEGIN
loadfix
CONFIG -set cycles=125000
etc.

Then close and save and try again

[Anonymous No.6442803]

>>6442681
I'm thinking where i want to go with this little project, do i leave it as it is? Or do i add more games requested by users here? Maybe a good solution would be to 'fork' it, make a new package for the community here and add more games to it (file size would grow bigger ofcourse).

I'll keep civilization in mind, as with other titles mentioned earlier

[Anonymous No.6443137]

>>6442803
I think what you're doing is pretty rad. I like the idea of providing a small hand-picked romset to introduce anons to gaming on a certain retro system. Exodos is stupidly huge and is completely overwhelming.

I gotta say though, some of your selections are kind of questionable. For instance, why would you add Keen 3 (a rushed mess, the worst in the series), but not 2 or 6? Why would you include Dissolution of Eternity but not the superior Scourge of Armagon? Why just Ultima VIII, why not throw in VII (and VI)? Especially in the case of Keen its only a few mbs at most so why not include them all? or just replace the Skunny games with them

If your aim with this thing is to be "anon's favorite childhood DOS games" then there's nothing wrong with that, so keep doing what you're doing. But if you want this thing to be a selection of the best DOS games for a relative newcomer then there's some work that needs to be done. If you want, maybe there's a way you have let others send you game files and batch scripts for some of the classic games that you're missing.

[Anonymous No.6443337]

>>6443137
Not OP, but counter proposal. I'm working on a PCem pre-packaged mid-range DOS setup with a lot of games OP didn't have in his pack, mostly the pre-Quake shareware and major titles. Will have Keen 1-6, Ultima 4-6(so OP can just focus on getting 7 running), Eye of the Beholder series, D&D Goldbox games, Halloween Harry, Jazz Jackrabbit, SimCity(with the four architecture sets), some graphical adventures, and some select edutainment titles. This way OP is free to focus on the more 3D intensive high-end DOS titles.

[Anonymous No.6443339]

>>6443137
I understand some of your critique. There's a few reasons why some titles aren't included. I guess one being personal bias, eventhough i tried to be as neutral as possible, there will always be some bias when making a selection.

Then there was the filesize issue, 1gb is kind of a barrier when it comes to downloading a single file (last release stands at almost 900mb zipped), since some browsers still have trouble downloading big files (especially through Mega's download caching system).

In the case of for example Commander Keen i think i've been slightly misled. I'm pretty sure i searched for the 'best keen games' in online discussions and i saw 3,4 and 5 pop-up regularly. Since they are quite small indeed i should've just added them for completeness sake (will add them next time).

Ultima VIII was a bit messy at launch because they were forced to rush it, but this one has the patch that fixes the plotholes included.

The hardest about all this is that the DOS catalogue is pretty huge and everyone has a different perception of a good game. It will be challenging to find a balance somewhere, because else i'm simply turning it into a bloated, exodos-like pack.

[Anonymous No.6443346]

>>6443337
Jazz Jackrabbit i actually added in a previous version, only to find out later it somehow refuses to run through a .bat file. So i couldn't use it in conjuction with the interactive menu. The rest of the proposal sounds neat, could you perhaps make a zip file out of those titles and host them somewhere? Then i don't have to manually scavenge MyAbandonware/GamesNostalgia etc for each of them.

[Anonymous No.6443370]

>>6443346
If they aren't already on the depot I'll make sure they get there.

[Anonymous No.6443546]

>>6429746
>Stunts
Is this one unlocked? I know there's a pirate protection with passwords

[Anonymous No.6443554]

>>6429746
Ty king

[Anonymous No.6443592]

>>6431512
also
>mounting as a folder
>cd audio

[Anonymous No.6443617]

>>6443546
The password protection screen is still in place, but it's unlocked, iirc you can press enter to skip, or type some letters and then press enter and you can proceed

[Anonymous No.6444995]

>>6429746
Some of those games i didnt play in ages. Thanks for this projekt op.

[Anonymous No.6445978]

>>6429746
I don't care about 95% of those games, and the ones I do, I already own either on physical media or on an online distributor.

[Anonymous No.6446835]

>>6445978
then why did you post in the thread?

[Anonymous No.6446839]

>>6443370
Well, I have a WIP of the PCem pack ready to go. Info is in a text file inside the archive, or in the Depot's discord. Text file includes list of all installed games.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12aqA6oettIw4kTIMF9_0eCAJG0ACByyQ
177MBs zipped, a little over 1GB unzipped. V0.5. Run PCem, point PCem at Hard drive file in /configs/, run virtual 486 machine. No other config required.

[Anonymous No.6447039]

>>6446839
Sorry to say, but i'm getting a corrupted/damaged file warning when i try to open it with WinRAR. Which version did you use to compress it? Maybe my version is too old?

[Anonymous No.6447057]

>>6447039
Try 7zip. Winrar is outdated

[Anonymous No.6447105]

>>6447057
Ok i'm running it now, latest 7zip did the trick. Pretty cool pack anon. Games work. But how can i extract the game files from the pack for use in DosBox?

[Anonymous No.6447107]

Small update to the OP post btw, version number is now 1.33b. Added the missing Keen titles and added back Quake expansion pack Scourge of Armagon. Link is same as in OP.

[Anonymous No.6447112]

>>6429746
Fucking sick. Thanks, fella.

[TheGuywhoboughtaLicense No.6447238]

>>6447057
keep coping

[Anonymous No.6447308]

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/releases

http://ykhwong.x-y.net/

aren't either of these better updated builds of DOSbox?
I'm sure I could probably find better ones than these if I tried. Why does the OP have the shitty old build?

[Anonymous No.6447313]

>>6447308
These add nothing of value

[Anonymous No.6447314]

>>6447308
>http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
Abandoned.

[Anonymous No.6447326]

>>6447308
>https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/releases
Currently there is a power struggle going on behind the scenes between the degenerate losers who barely maintain mainline DOSBox and the dude attempting to fork into DOSBox-X. It's resulted in a wider disinformation campaign and more specifically retaliatory measures toward anyone so much as *mentioning* the fork on VOGONS (the home of DOSBox). My guess is OP doesn't want to touch that shit with a 10-foot pole, but maybe I'm overthinking it.

[Anonymous No.6447331]

>>6447326
ffs, has this power struggle bs reached dosbox too? trannies won't stop until they get put into mass graves will they?
anyway I don't know anything about the drama, I thought dosbox was relatively free of that shit. I just hoped that the newer builds would perform at least marginally better and have some QoL shit thrown in

[Anonymous No.6447346]

>>6447331
They break more than they fix with their new features.

[Anonymous No.6447356]

>>6447308
SVN Daum isn't updated since 2015 iirc, despite some neat features such as hardware acceleration.

I haven't tested DosBox-X with my pack myself, but another anon here confirmed it works. Using DosBox-X for this pack won't make much of a difference though, all games in this pack run on software mode by default so base DosBox will suffice.

The team behind DosBox-X seem to want to venture further, and start supporting late 90's HW-accelerated games and Win95 titles etc.

[Anonymous No.6447392]

>>6447356
>start supporting late 90's HW-accelerated games and Win95 titles
That's good since these are more difficult to run now on newer systems. Hope they spare us any social/political BS.

[Anonymous No.6447402]

>>6447326
>retaliatory measures
Literally not true. I'm sure the developers of DOSBox main are degenerates etc, but there's literally a DOSBox-X thread with 96 pages. You can talk about the fork there, it's completely fine.

>>6429746
Also this pack doesn't have the music for Quake or C&C and I'm sure some other games too. Why would you want to play C&C without the soundrack? Garbage.

Good pack though apart from that horrific oversight.

[Anonymous No.6447406]

>>6447402
>but there's literally a DOSBox-X thread with 96 pages.
When did you last check?

[Anonymous No.6447465]

>>6447356
DosBOX ECE does this too.
the difference is that ECE has native Munt support and reshade, also is piss easy to config.

also its interesting the hate towards this, and is mostly because its being made and hosted on VOGONS with the help of the community.

>>6447406
inst dosbox X devs involved with a certain group of slav idiots wanting dosbox rights with their fork, and they are even friends with the spergs at retroarch dev?

[Anonymous No.6447504]

>>6447465
That looks absolutely atrocious

[Anonymous No.6447512]

>>6447504
>t. crtfag and tourist

[Anonymous No.6447534]

Nothing wrong with having a bit of discussion or debate here about what dosbox build is best for us, we're not aligned with any of the faggot devs, we just want the optimum experience playing our dos games, nothing else should matter, fuck politics and drama fagging cunts.

[Anonymous No.6447615]

>>6447512
That looks absolutely atrocious

[Anonymous No.6447619]

>>6447105
>But how can i extract the game files from the pack for use in DosBox?
You don't. I can point you to the sources I had so you can try them in DOSbox, but the only way to get files out of the installed HDD image would be to mount blank floppy disk images and transfer the files 1.44MBs at a time.

I mostly used the Total DOS Collection on the internet archive since they had a lot of installers instead of just gamefiles. Though if you are using DOSbox or plan on using it, you'll probably have an easier time with eXoDOS, since that collection is modified to run on DOSbox, in most cases with dosbox.conf files included. What DOS games I couldn't find in TDC I got from the Depot, or individual uploads to the internet archive.

[Anonymous No.6447632]

Consensus on best frontend for DOSBox? I don't mind if it's Windows-only.

[Your Daddy No.6447651]

>>6447465
Get a real CRT, this is embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.6447660]

>>6447651
>tripfag
fuck back to /v/ and the other youtuber niggers praising Screens that will die on the 1st Sun EMP

[Your Daddy No.6447664]

>>6447660
Were you mistreated as a child or beaten over the head with a TV or why do you carry that chip on your shoulder?

[Anonymous No.6447669]

>Thread about DOS games
>two retards show up to argue over bullshit that has nothing to do with DOS games
Fuck off to the CRT general if you wanna argue about that shit, stop crapping in a thread actually about retro videogames.

[Anonymous No.6447670]

Just a heads-up for people using dosbox these days. Get the "pixel perfect" scaling version from its GitHub page. All other forks scale incorrectly.

[Anonymous No.6447681]

>>6447039
it's in rar5-format

[Anonymous No.6447705]

What do you do when you're playing a sim like Wing Commander 2 and only have various gamepads at your disposal? Any mapper tools you can recommend that can tame my Xbox pad to behave more like a flightstick?
Precise aiming is impossible with Dosbox' internal joystick support.

[Anonymous No.6447718]

>>6447705
fucking this

[Anonymous No.6447723]

>>6447632
Honestly, I like to edit the config of each game I want to play manually. I have one good base config with perfect scaling and midi already setup, and just edit the cycles and add various loadfixes if required.
The best frontend comes at a whopping 650 MB extra and it's not really needed. Often times the launchers claim to be tailored to each game, with a custom config and what not, but it's mostly bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6447725]

>>6447670
Or follow my advice, don't stretch, just learn to live with black bars. Barely makes a difference and it'll save time in the long run.

[Anonymous No.6447748]

>>6447406
I checked about 1 minute before posting. The Gashbox-X fork thread isn't hidden or anything, it's literally there on VOGONS.

[Anonymous No.6448716]

>thread about opinions on retroarch
>300+ replies
>thread about opinions on HL
>400+ replies
>thread about console wars
>250+ replies
>thread about emubox
>150+ replies
>thread about sharing prepackaged DOS games
>less than 100 replies
Maybe this isn't the best place to share this sort of thing OP?

[Anonymous No.6448808]

any DOS RTS games you guys recommend?

[Anonymous No.6448867]

>>6448716
And yet here you are, sharing your shit opinions, in this very thread!

[Anonymous No.6448920]

>>6448867
>point out most of the board is just shitposting
>f-f-f-fuck you!
Lemme guess, you're one of the angry shitposters?

[Anonymous No.6448970]

>>6448920
Funny, coming from the person who felt the need to shitpost in this thread.

[Anonymous No.6449023]

>>6447748
You're right. Because I got the name of the spinoff wrong. It's DOSBox-Staging.

[Anonymous No.6449026]

>>6449023
https://imgur.com/a/bnJEZcx
https://imgur.com/a/HnG1Ls4

[Anonymous No.6449118]

And now, to actually contribute something constructive to the discussion: https://dosbox-x.com/demoscene-compat.html This looks pretty impressive.

[Anonymous No.6449996]

>>6448716
It's totally fine. I didn't make the thread to get a lot of replies. Can't see how many people actually downloaded it (mega doesn't offer analytics), but atleast the reactions here were very positive from the ones who did. Sadly can't post it on VOGONS, it will be deleted right away by moralfags because muh illegal. Could post it on YouTube but most likely it will only attract indians/paki's looking for free games. Maybe could seed it @ torrent but then i lose track of any written feedback. /VR is kind of an anchor point for this kind of stuff lol, the only bad thing is it will be bumped off the frontpage and people might forget abt it..

[Anonymous No.6450712]

>>6449996
I found it useful Anon, and I'm not even a novice.
I had about 300 games set up to run the way I wanted, then I had a drive crash.

[Anonymous No.6450835]

>>6450712
That's quite unfortunate, alot of time and effort lost. No backup whatsoever? I also still rely on my old HDD from 2009 but have 2 SD cards for backing up. In hot summers i don't use my main pc, ssd laptop instead, hot warm weather will kill HDD's

[Anonymous No.6450836]

>>6450835
oops, meant to say hot + humid

[Anonymous No.6450875]

>>6447105
>But how can i extract the game files from the pack for use in DosBox?
Why would you want to? PCem is more accurate in emulating a DOS environment than DosBox. Hell, even the forks of DosBox are more further along in development than the main branch. There's no reason to use the mainline Dosbox anymore.

[Anonymous No.6450913]

>>6450875
Not very familiar with PCem but i did notice the difference between loading times (dosbox ready to go in 1 second, PCem goes through a conventional booting procedure). Guess it's more 'real' though? DosBox seems to boot up with everything already loaded into memory. PCem seems more versatile with many machines from different time periods to emulate. Does PCem offer hardware accel out of the box btw? Or does it depend which OS you're emulating?

[Anonymous No.6450921]

>>6429746
What's "modern controls" mean? Can you give a game-by-game breakdown for titles and also indicate if a config file exists to modify them if so desired?

[Anonymous No.6450943]

>>6450921
Pretty much all FPS'es in the pack have WASD + mouselook. Even for the games that were released without mouselook, it got added by included sourceports or tweaks (for example heretic, hexen, dark forces, powerslave). Doom and Wolfenstein have no mouselook (Wolfenstein doesn't need it anyway since it has no tall geometry) but do support WASD. Most 2D platformers have standard controls (arrow keys).

[Anonymous No.6450951]

>>6450943
>Doom and Wolfenstein have no mouselook
Sorry if that was a bit unclear, i meant to say you can use the mouse for horizontal movement, but no looking up/down (as with originals). Original Wolfenstein had no strafing ability (A+D left n right) but it got added thanks to a small mod

[Anonymous No.6450970]

>>6429746
> Wacky Wheels

oh shiiiiiiiiiit

[Anonymous No.6451028]

>>6429746
Awesome pack, bro. Everything worked OOTB for me so far


Also, if you're taking requests, I'd love to see the first Rayman there too

[Anonymous No.6451078]

>>6450913
>Does PCem offer hardware accel out of the box btw? Or does it depend which OS you're emulating?
Do you mean hardware accel as in a 3D GPU emulated? Because if so, PCem does allow for VooDoo and VooDoo 2 cards and SLI so you can use more than one. The main differences between PCem and DOSbox is setup and what is being emulated. DOSbox requires a lot less setup, since it's emulating a specially modified version of DOS "well enough". DOSbox frontends tend to use separate configurations for each game, and emulates each game in it's own separate machine. You don't need to install DOS, or know much about how DOS works.

PCem is the BSNES/Higan if x86 emulators. Instead of emulating a DOS environment, you emulate the entire machine. This means you need to make a HDD file, format it, install DOS on it, then whatever else you wanted. Sound drivers, mouse driver, CD-ROM driver, menu programs, COMMAND.COM replacements, etc. You need to manage memory, and know how to deal with config.sys and autoexec.bat if you want to play more memory demanding games. If you want 635K free of the base 640K, then you gotta install QuarterDeck's QEMM or whatever to fuck with DOS enough to get it to accept being loaded mostly in EMS or XMS. You have to go into BIOS and tell it that HDD's are connected, or you won't even make it to the install DOS step. But the end result is you'll have a virtual machine you can treat as a real DOS machine, with far greater accuracy than what DOSbox can do. Installing expansion packs and old DOS patches for games is a lot easier thanks to this.

One good example of accuracy, try playing the CD-ROM version of Ultimate Domain/Genesia under DOSbox, then try it under a PCem machine that meets the system requirements of the game. PCem will run the game without problems. DOSbox will either crash or lockup after about five minutes, if it makes it that far. No mucking with DOSbox settings will make the game work.

[Anonymous No.6451158]

>>6447465
Why would you play DOS games on CRT television? VGA screens of the DOS era were crystal clear.

[Anonymous No.6451231]

>>6451078
Thanks for the elaborate answer. Sounds nice being able to fiddle with a near 100% accurate DOS build, safe in a virtual environment where mistakes won't do harm. Maybe i'll give PCem a go later.
>>6451028
Thanks, you're welcome. I'm currently not planning to update this in the coming few days (heatwave over here), but i'll definitely consider adding Rayman later.

[Anonymous No.6451253]

>>6429746
Says I need a damn encryption key.
What do I do? I really want this.

[Anonymous No.6451264]

>>6451253
Huh? Before you download DOSGAMES.RAR you mean? It shouldn't ask for anything and just download straight away

[Anonymous No.6451267]

>>6451231
Best part is, it's emulating the hardware. You can install any version of MS-DOS, DRDOS, FREEDOS, Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, Win9x, CP/M, Linux, or anything else the hardware supports. All you need to do is supply the install disks for the OS, and drivers for the chosen hardware for that OS.

The only downside is, much like BSNES/Higan, PCem requires a lot more processing power than DOSbox. DOSbox runs on toasters, my toaster struggles to run systems over 133MHz under PCem.

[Anonymous No.6451280]

>>6451253
manually copy and paste the entire mega link into a new tab. Sometimes the automatic link detection doesnt work.

[Anonymous No.6451287]

>>6451267
I don't own any old OS'es on physical media anymore. And what about DOS? It came on floppies correct? Surely it's possible to 'pirate' an image of DOS, let's say 6.22, and make it work right?

[Anonymous No.6451290]

>>6451287
Google winworldpc. They have install disks for many old OS's, and the formats they use are accepted by PCem. They also have a lot of old software for these OS's.

[Anonymous No.6451301]

>>6451290
Thanks. They seem to operate in a similar fashion to archive.org, but instead specializing in old OS'es instead of old software

[Anonymous No.6451341]

>>6448716
>/v/ /vr/ /vg/
>boards about actually playing games
pick 1 (one)

[Anonymous No.6451435]

p.s. reminder for everyone who didn't read the readme.txt and are not so familiar with dosbox, these are the three important keycombo's:

ctrl+f9: closes dosbox (if normal exit from a game doesn't work)
ctrl+f11/12: alternates between cycles (changes speed of games, if needed)
alt+enter: toggles between fullscreen or windowed view

[Anonymous No.6451589]

>>6447356
>>6447465
I use the shader from this comment with the DosBox of this repo:
https://github.com/MartyShepard/DOSBox-Optionals/issues/3

>>6451158
Enabling 2x scaling before it gets to the shader does a proper double scanline for low res, just like the good old PC CRTs.

[Anonymous No.6451602]

PC-Emu needs much better cross-platform support before it can land the killing blow to DOSBox.

[Anonymous No.6451778]

>>6451602
PCem and DOSbox are two different ideas. PCem is for full and accurate emulation of an environment where you can install old OS's. DOSbox is an emulated 95% DOS environment for playing games with as little config and knowledge of DOS as absolutely needed. PCem requires a high end CPU to run the best Win98SE machine it can support, DOSbox runs on crap hardware like phones. Even if PCem was ported everywhere, it wouldn't kill DOSbox since DOSbox is still useful for people who are only looking to emulate a specific DOS game or a few games.

[Anonymous No.6451783]

>>6451589
Same shader at 4k
Too bad I don't have a 4k monitor.

[Anonymous No.6451973]

>>6429746
>33
Hrm.

[Anonymous No.6453278]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.6454930]

>>6429746
You're missing some staples like:
- Syndicate (sequel sucks)
- Alone in the Dark 1 (sequels are meh)
- Blackthorne
- Another World
- Flashback

[Anonymous No.6455086]

>>6448808
C&C, Red Alert, Warcraft 2