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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @Dominus
      last edited by edmaul69

      @Dominus i actually press ctrl and f1 at the same time while in a game to configure the keyboard keys to the controller. I cant get controller dpad to work in several games and in retro city rampage i can only configure 3 buttons to the controller when i need 6 so i have to use the dosbox keyboard config to set up my controller as keyboard functions

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      • EkstremeE
        Ekstreme
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        Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
        Stunt Racer
        Day of the Tentacle

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          Concat
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          I just use linuxjoystickmapper... mainly because I wanted to map mouse to a joystick, which you cant do in the dosbox mapper.

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @Concat
            last edited by edmaul69

            @Concat soooooo the shoe is now on the other foot... Please do tell me how i get and use the linuxmapper?

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            • suprjamiS
              suprjami @Dominus
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              @Dominus Apparently DOSBox native joystick support isn't great, but the keymapper is spot on, as per my post above.

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              • suprjamiS
                suprjami @edmaul69
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                @edmaul69 I linked his thread above.

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @suprjami
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                  @suprjami cool. I actually have joymap for the atari 800 emulator for the 5200 but i downloaded it already preconfigured. I guess i will have to figure out using it. Thanks. I will trifle through that thread and learn all this.

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                    LSolrac2
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                    Doom (2)
                    Wolfenstein
                    Daggerfall <3 <3

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                      HPK-de
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                      Ok, i´m a bit of a DOS Freak, i´ve got all my old games up and running, and i´m still buying games from E-Bay or GOG. But most of them are old treasures from my childhood days, which i had lying around....
                      I bought lots of games back then and in the late 90s i had ( thank god) the idea to make backups of all the floppies on CDs..... I don´t think the floppies are readable anymore....

                      Besides a Sega Master System, i never had any consoles, so the RPi ist mostly a "DosBox".
                      Some of these games require ISO Files, some Windows 3.11 installed, some needs a bit tweaking around (Strike Commander, Ultima 7) and some really needs a Raspberry PI 3.....
                      And my 32GB card is filling rapidly ;-)

                      Dosbox:
                      1869
                      Astrofire
                      Caesar II
                      Capitalism Plus
                      Capture the Flag
                      Conqueror AD 1086
                      Conquest of the New World
                      The Clou
                      The Patrician
                      Fugger II (the Guild)
                      Die Kathedrale (german Text Adventure)
                      Doom
                      Duke Nuken 3D
                      Elizabeth I (Ascaron)
                      Football Ltd
                      Grand Prix 2
                      GTA 1
                      Gunship 2000
                      Hanse
                      Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures (Win 3.11)
                      Lemmings
                      Links 386
                      Mad TV
                      Need for Speed 1
                      Oil Imperium (aka Black Gold)
                      Oldtimer
                      Pirates Gold
                      Popolous
                      Ports of Call
                      Raptor (Apogee)
                      Rome AD 92
                      Ruesselsheim
                      Sid Meiers Civilization 1
                      Sid Meiers Civilization 2 (Win 3.11)
                      Sid Meiers Colonization
                      Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon 1
                      Sim Ant
                      Sim City
                      Sim City 2000
                      Spaceward Ho!
                      Starttrek 25th Anniversary
                      Strike Commander
                      4D Sports Drivin (aka Stunts)
                      The incredible Machine 2
                      Theme Park
                      Ultima 4
                      Ultima 7
                      Wing Commander
                      Wing Commander Privateer
                      Wolfenstein 3D
                      Worlds of Ultima - Savage Empire
                      Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams
                      X-Wing
                      You dont know Jack (Windows 3.11).

                      Dos Games via ScummVM:

                      Broken Sword
                      Flight of the Amazon Queen
                      Indiana Jones 3+4
                      Loom
                      Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes 1+2
                      Lure of the Temptress
                      Mainac Mansion 1+2
                      Sam n Max
                      The 7th Guest
                      The Secret of Monkey Island 1+2+3
                      Zac Mac Kracken.

                      coming soon: You dont know jack 2+3 (bought via Ebay, awaited for the weekend ;-)...).

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                        backstander
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                        @HPK-de that's an impressive collection of MSDOS games! I had a Atari 5200, NES, Gameboy & TurboGrafx16/CD so I missed out on owning the other 16bit consoles but I had a good PC to play many of those same MSDOS games! I can remember back in the 90s going to the mall and checking the good old bargain bin and picking up some under the radar games for cheap. I use Dosbox much because I've been catching up on the other consoles I didn't own and playing through some of the classics.

                        I saw on your list you got Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures running in Win 3.x. I use to have the demo for that game and always wanted the full version. I remember it being a lot of fun.

                        I loved all the id software games and games that used their engines (like Heretic, Hexen, Strafe) but I use the Linux ports because they typically play better than they do in Dosbox.

                        Here's what I have tried in Dosbox:

                        The Elder Scrolls: Arena (now full game is free to download)
                        The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (now full game is free to download)
                        Death Gate (based on a great book with a great story)
                        Rise of the Dragon
                        Formula One Grand Prix
                        Isle of the Dead (crappy bargain bin game)

                        Games I plan to install in Dosbox:

                        Abuse
                        Alone in the Dark 1, 2 & 3
                        Arkanoid
                        Corridor 7: Alien Invasion (I own it but never beat it)
                        Dark Seed
                        The Dark Half
                        Dune
                        Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures (Win 3.x)
                        Dungeon Keeper
                        FlashBack
                        I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
                        Iron Blood
                        It Came From The Desert
                        Legend of Kyrandia
                        One Must Fall 2097
                        Operation Bodycount (crappy bargain bin game)
                        Phantasmagoria
                        Powerslave
                        Prince of Persia
                        Quarantine
                        Stunts
                        SkyRoads
                        Street Rod 1 & 2
                        Stunt Island
                        Test Drive 1 & 2

                        My ScummVM list:

                        Beneath a Steel Sky
                        Flight of the Amazon Queen
                        Full Throttle
                        Indiana Jones 3+4
                        Loom
                        Lure of the Temptress
                        Return to Zork
                        The Dig

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                        • edmaul69E
                          edmaul69
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                          For me scanlines on dosbox and lr-prboom was a must. I have scanlines on all my tv/monitor based systems minus the few with no option.

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                            Concat
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                            What are the benefits to using ScummVM over dosbox for those old point and click games like Beneath a Steel Sky or The Dig?

                            Actually, I hate separating out ports, Scumm and Dos games in retropie... I've already started moving over the bashscripts to start the ports games from PC. I'd rather just have one folder called Computer Games... also helps the kids make sense of the category because ScummVM is not self explanatory for the layman.

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                              backstander @Concat
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                              @Concat well Dosbox is kind of like a one size fits all MSDOS emulator and ScummVM is geared for certain point & click adventure games that use the SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) game engine even though I can play a couple non-SCUMM games. "The benefit of ScummVM is the ease of use for the games it does support, as well as a GUI interface that makes it simple to change graphics and audio settings."

                              If you had to pick just one then go with Dosbox but the beauty of RetroPie is you don't have to!

                              Edit: this is something I found describing the difference:
                              http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/12/08/dosbox-vs-scummvm-what-plays-old-games-better/

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                                gorgar
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                                Hi am i doing something wrong i was trying to get pinball dreams and fantasies to work they played okay but were not at optimal speed. I did not think these would be that processor intensive but on the PI3 they were not that smooth. On the above lists i see a lot more processor intensive games am i doing something wrong?

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                                • edmaul69E
                                  edmaul69 @gorgar
                                  last edited by edmaul69

                                  @gorgar dosbox runs at around 20mhz on the pi. There are funtions for dosbox to speed up and slow down. CTRL+F11 decreases the amount of emulated CPU cycles, CTRL+F12 increases it. CTRL+F8 increases frameskip and CTRL+F7 decreases it.

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                                    HPK-de @edmaul69
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                                    @edmaul69 said in Favorite DOS games...:

                                    @gorgar dosbox runs at around 20mhz on the pi. There are funtions for dosbox to speed up and slow down. CTRL+F11 decreases the amount of emulated CPU cycles, CTRL+F12 increases it. CTRL+F8 increases frameskip and CTRL+F7 decreases it.

                                    I think dosbox on the RPi3 is much faster than 20 MHz....
                                    I can play games like "Strike Commander" and other late Dos games quite well, they won´t run on a 20MHz PC.
                                    Yesterday i tried my games on a RPI2 which was much slower on some games.
                                    For example "You dont know Jack" (emulated in Dosbox with Windows 3.11) runs fine on my RPi3 but was unplayable slow on the RPi 2....

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                                      dawtyne10
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                                      @celly thanks bud, great games!

                                      @suprjami thanks for the omf wiki!

                                      Does anyone use controllers for any of the DOS games? I am wondering how good it works?

                                      @Dominus I use xbox 360 controllers for all of my installed dosbox games. The only one that gives me fits is Lemmings as I mapped the mouse to my thumbstick... It always wants to go up and left. I haven't spent time trying to tweak just yet, but will be digging into @Concat thread linked above. (thanks) Otherwise mapping with dosbox mapper has been smooth and setup each game with its own ".conf" and ".map" file called out from my ".sh". Seems like since updated xpad in Retropie 4.0.x I have better controller response than before.

                                      @backstander would love to get Dungeon Keeper and Dune running.. let me know if you ever tackle them :)

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                                      • edmaul69E
                                        edmaul69 @HPK-de
                                        last edited by edmaul69

                                        @HPK-de nevermind. i found my problem with running retro city rampage any faster than 20mhz. i had to split the power between the hdd and the pi. i dont run dos games off the hdd, but apparently running that game requires a lot from the pi.

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                                        • edmaul69E
                                          edmaul69 @edmaul69
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                                            tien_huu_1408 @dawtyne10
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                                            @dawtyne10 Hope you could make Raptor and JazzRabbit ported to Pi3. Thanks a lot!

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