Favorite DOS games...

Concat

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.

backstander

@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/

gorgar

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?

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.

HPK-de

@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....

dawtyne10

@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 :)

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.

edmaul69

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tien_huu_1408

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

PetroRie

Supaplex and Cannon Fodder, I played the AMIGA version of Cannon Fodder 2 and I really loved it.

Meneer Jansen

On my Pi a still have a few MS-DOS games that I enjoy very much, they are:

Abuse
Blues Brothers (there are other BB games, but this one is really nice)
Dragon's Lair - Escape from Singe's Castle (a hidden gem!)
Commander Keen 4 to 6
Terminal Velocity (runs at 1 fps on my Pi, bummer!)
Supaplex (also, somewhat of a hidden gem)

There are a few games that I played a lot, but I found other versions that are better or more easy to install/play:

Prince of Persia 2 - The Shadow and the Flame (the game that I've enjoyed the most in my life): I recently found out that the Mac version completely blows the graphics of the MS-DOS version away.
Lemmings: I find it more easy to play the SNES version.
Descent: PSX

edmaul69

I temporarily move to to north carolina from colorado tomorrow. I dug out all of the star wars dos games and expansions from my storage unit today to take with me so i will get those installed when i get there.

tien_huu_1408

@PetroRie How to play it on Retropie? Hope you could help me!

Meneer Jansen

@tien_huu_1408 said in Favorite DOS games...:

@PetroRie How to play it on Retropie? Hope you could help me!

Play what on RetroPie??

Dominus

@Meneer-Jansen "IT!" :-P

qix77

I don't have any on the Pi yet but I got a few old favorites of mine I want to try.

3D Lemmings
One Must Fall 2097
Cyberia
11th Hour
Space Hulk
Tie-Fighter
Mega Race
Brix
Boppin
Descent
Descent II (which I think originally was DOS if memory serves me right)
Windows 3.X (mostly so I can play something like the first 'Journey Man Project' if possible)
Doom 1 and 2
Heretic
Hexen
Duke Nukem 3D
... and a bunch of old random freeware games that folks made back in the 90's that I use to play the crap out of. That is if I can find my old disk archives. I use to back up everything I downloaded from the net back then.

Meneer Jansen

@qix77 said in Favorite DOS games...:

[...] That is if I can find my old disk archives. I use to back up everything I downloaded from the net back then.

Luckily there are a lot of sites with abandonware like: http://www.abandonia.com/en/game/all

qix77

@Meneer-Jansen I love that place. Sadly, the freeware games I mentioned were made by college kids back in the mid 90's and most are lost forever. This one game called 'Diamond Runner' was a really cool home brew RPG in the flavor of 'Phantasy Star' for the Master System. Graphics wasn't as good but the music was awesome for SB 16 midi.

I had tons of stuff I use to play allot at night when I was in college back then.

Brigane

I'm having trouble with Chasm: The Rift and Blood running to slowly, has anyone experienced this as well?