Ignition - Dosbox [Working!]

edmaul69

@LS650 you use a program likeMagicISO to make it. Its like a zip file. It is a single file that has several files in it. Iso files are an image of a disc.

edmaul69

@Spiky curious question why is your imgmount set to -t iso and not -t cdrom? There is no such setting as -t iso according to the dosbox manual. Im not sure if that has any effect on your issue you were having or not.

-t type
Type of the mounted directory. Supported are: dir (default), floppy, cdrom.

Spiky

@edmaul69 according to dosbox wiki (https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT) I see nothing wrong with my script, but I am not saying you can't be right too.

@mattrixk make sure you have plugged in both keyboard + mouse and joystick, then run DOSBox, press CTRL+F1 - that will start key mapping application. Use your mouse to press button on screen you wish to map, then press Add on screen and finally press button on your joystick to map it. It may sound confusing, but it's really easy and you have to do it only once. Check this if you have any problems: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Mapper. Also little advice: most important keys besides arrow keys are SPACE, CTRL, SHIFT, ESC, ENTER and also don't forget about Y and N, as lot of games use those.

edmaul69

@Spiky according to the wiki you are correct.

edmaul69

@Spiky i can confirm making an iso indeed fixes the problem.

Spiky

@edmaul69 that is interesting, I though the problem was that exit command wouldn't work until I define name parameter. at least that's what I would expect after reading wiki https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Usage:

"-exit
DOSBox will close itself when the DOS application name ends. "

mattrixk

That's awesome info @Spiky, thanks for that. Do you have to map each game individually, or only do it once and it's the same for each game?

dudleydes

@mattrixk It depends. Some games are relatively straightforward. For example, arcade style games with movement and 1 or 2 buttons can use the same mapping. This may be insufficient for other, more complex, games and may need individual mapping, especially when considering the number of keys available to DOS.

There are many ways to do configure DOSBox but this is how I approached it:
How to configure USB game controllers in DOSBox
How to create a default (arcade) mapping for game controllers in DOSBox
How to configure DOSBox for individual games.

If you intend to use the DOSBox mapper, then I suggest you do it on the PC version and then copy the mapper files to your Pi. When I launch DOSBox from ES and press CTRL+F1 to launch the mapper, this is what I get:

Unable to see the mouse cursor, I find it impossible to exit DOSBox without a reboot.

mattrixk

Hmm, interesting. Thank you also @dudleydes for the info. Looks like I have some reading to do.

denisuu

Thanks Spiky it's working! I updated the first post with your instructions.

As soon as I turn the resolution or screen size up it's unplayable though, I guess I'll try overclocking.

Spiky

@denisuu good to hear that, I am happy I could help. I am also gonna overclock today, I will post results once I am done :)

denisuu

@Spiky

I updated the first post again, I used IMG burn to make the ISO easy as pi :p

I overlocked using these settings for the PI3: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Overclocking

arm_freq=1300
gpu_freq=500
core_freq=500
sdram_freq=500
sdram_schmoo=0x02000020
over_voltage=2
sdram_over_voltage=2

Now I can run the screensize on medium without any hickups. still can't higher the resolution though.

Spiky

@denisuu So I overclocked it to the same values, but honestly, I see almost no difference

edmaul69

@Spiky since i moved and my stuff hasnt arrived yet, can you try the -t cdrom with -c "exit"? The manual says with imgmount use cdrom with -t for iso. It says when you use -fs to use iso. So for whatever reason the manual and the wiki contradict each other.

hooperre

Is this a DOS game or a Win 3.1 game? Would Civ 2 run on DosBox for example or would I have to install Win 3.1?

edmaul69

@hooperre it is both dos and windows. It has 3dfx files on the disc so my guess is it probably runs its best on windows 98 with a voodoo card.

Spiky

@edmaul69 I will try tomorrow and let you know

edmaul69

@Spiky cool. Thank you. Im just curious if we can find a more universal method since i know the -c "exit" works great on c: drive games and using real cd's. I also put my disc drive and floppy drive before the c: drive.

edmaul69

@Spiky another thing i do is set c to the pc folder and use cd to change to the games directory's.reason why is some games need physically installed soundblaster files and some games can have a better video quality with the s3 drivers installed. the first time you install them they create their folders so no need to reinstall again. that way when you run setup.exe for the game it will find these options. you have to remove the -c "exit" to be able to exit the game to get to the command line to run setup.exe. once everything is set up then you can add -c "exit" back into the .sh file. here is an example of how i setup my .sh files:

-c "mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc" -c "c:" -c "cd\Dune" -c "dune.bat" -c "exit"

Spiky

@edmaul69 how does the rest of your script look like? I mean, you surely call dosbox in the beginning, right? I am just wondering if you have any name parameter defined in there.