@LeatherWing said in Pi 5 Dosbox failes to launch. Bookworm 64bit lite:

Assuming I'll need to figure out how to force a rezolution on dosbox-staging and cross my fingers.
If you have any suggestions for the format, I'm happy to hear 'em.

Use the runcommand launch menu and choose a resolution from there. The error looks like it's coming from the TV, indeed. You can take a look at the log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) and see which resolution dobox-staging tries to use.

eXoConverter 0.9.7-beta
https://github.com/Voljega/ExoDOSConverter/releases/tag/0.9.7-beta

Changelog:

Support for eXoDOS v6 Lite Support for eXo Apple II GS Support for eXo ScummVM (mostly broken support at the moment) Lots of fixes replace mount by subst when converting to dosbox-pure, compatibly for this coimmand should be added in a future dosbox-pure release

@Folly

Thanks Folly

this really is going to help me

Thank you !!!!

Thank you so much!

The first Need For speed is available and for PlayStation 1 with tha name Road & Track Presents - The Need for Speed .

I like ScummVM simply because its easier to use than DosBox. Plus, I can run the games on my Android Tablet as it's compatible with the touchscreen.

@edmaul69 darn! Was one of my favorites back in the day.

that would be sweet if it can done on the Pi

@jamrom2 wow the game you share friend its really nice game friend I didn't play this game even I don't know about this game. Thanks for sharing friend now I try this game if I found it. :-)

Thanks, I will check out the Ps1 versions, and yes I have all the tile art files for blood, if I take the folder to my pc and launch it, it plays fine, but on the pi it gives the error.

If you have the files, then you could run them under dosbox.
Such as, if you had the files to run I dunno, Jazz Jackrabbit. You could run it on DosBox.

@zerojay hiya, sorry to bring up such an old post, i am desperate for some help getting the .sh files in pc ports menu to play now the script has run its course fully (yes the metadata shows and everything is bang on the right place, yet running the games from menu kicks back to menu screen. You mention here about a part of the script capitalising the +dosbox.sh script which stops anything running - i think this is my problem, could you explain a fix for this pretty please with sugar on top? thanks bud.

@spruce_m00se

oh i wanted to, but none of my friends ever wanted to play CnC
did play duke 3d over dial up a few times, i think Diablo 2 is when i really started to play online

@incrediblekyle

You'd have to run it through Moonlight/Steam. Unfortunately there's no official documentation for adding it. However, the specifics are discussed here.

@macothal you need to install the dosbox emulator as it doesn't come pre-installed with the image from the website.

Do that, restart EmulationStation and it'll all be good.

@VictimRLSH I tried the exagear demo on a "sandbox build" image of my regular gaming build. It did work fairly well, but it seemed like the install was too deep rooted into the system (just try fully uninstalling vs you'll see what I mean). I ultimately decided to not purchase it mainly because of their business model. Doing some research, It's closed source, which is okay if they were really vested into maintaining exagear, but the number one thing is the liscence is tied to the specific Raspberry pi you register it on - so when your board dies or you upgrade from 3b to 3b+ you must purchase a new liscence.

If the license was, let's say, $5 it may justify that bussiness model. It's a shame, they have something that would otherwise be huge.

I've been using a custom compiled wine through raspian to play Diablo 1, Diablo 2 with Lod expansion, & Starcraft Brood Wars. (Bonus - net play co-op) Unfortunatly, it required someone to compile the game..exe for arm but maybe with enough support they can get wine fully implemented to work just like exagear.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18985/diablo-ii-and-other-games-on-retropie/14

Edit
Reply on that thread if you go ahead and I will help you set it up

Has anyone tried one of those xbox or ps3 add on keyboards that click onto the bottom of the remote? Not sure if it will even work with RetroPie or if its just to small to be useful. I dont mean as a controller but for basic shortcuts some games use or for word input on some games.

Just to confirm that example script you provided, worked well and that this problem is solved.
Thanks again for your help.

@CaelThunderwing

I really couldn't advise anything on that other than another search through vogons.org. I play a lot of DOS games, but installing Windows 3.1 has never been anything I wanted to put myself through. Maybe I'm being unfair, but I remember it as being an unintuitive and unforgiving environment when it came to hardware integration. The Keymapper is of course an option, so at least you have a contingency plan if all else fails.