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[TouchPad General] gene_wildhart:
Thanks for testing that out... it was worth a shot, but I guess that wasn't the problem. Do you get sound when you first boot into Win98 (ie. the windows boot-up sound)? I read that you wrote some other games have sound, so I'm assuming DOS games seems to be working fine with sound (ie. DOOM, etc)?
[TouchPad General] bottad:
Yup, I get the start up sound. It can play midi type sound but doesn't seem capable of the Soundblaster related ones.

The non windows games that run in native DOS work perfectly, all sounds work no issues.

I went into the the sound settings in Windows and tried playing the default sounds like the error sounds for wrong clicks, etc. It plays those fine.
[TouchPad General] moeburn:
Could someone please help me map my gamepad's dpad to keyboard arrow keys?

I'm trying to play Prince of Persia on my Galaxy S3, using my home made DIY USB-OTG gamepad, made from an old Xbox controller. The gamepad itself works fine, it works in pretty much every game that supports gamepads. And it works fine in DosBox Turbo if I press ctrl-J in Prince of Persia to set it to joystick mode. But that forces me to use the analog stick, because PoP doesn't know what a dpad is.

I would like to use the dpad instead of the analog stick in PoP. But because PoP was not written to look for a dpad, but only an analog stick, this requires mapping the dpad to something else. What would make sense would be to map the dpad to the keyboard arrow keys, then use ctrl-K to set PoP to keyboard mode.

But it is impossible to map any gamepad button to arrow keys in DosBox Turbo. You can map ANY gamepad button to ANY keyboard button EXCEPT the arrow keys. I could map the dpad to WSAD or numpad keys just fine, if only PoP would use WSAD or the numpad. But in the flyout dialog to select which key to map the gamepad's button to, I can select any letter, number, F-key, ctrl, shift, anything I want, EXCEPT ARROW KEYS!!! ARGH!!!!
[TouchPad General] gene_wildhart:
Have you tried mapping to "DPAD_UP, DPAD_DOWN, DPAD_LEFT, DPAD_RIGHT"? Those translate directly to the arrow keys on the keyboard.

---------- Post added at 06:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:28 PM ----------

Alright, so if you are getting sound in DOS and in Windows (those windows sounds are WAV, not MIDI), then I suspect there is a problem with your fallout installation (perhaps the fallout2.cfg?) The windows sounds would not play if the soundblaster emulation was not working perfectly.
[TouchPad General] bottad:
Hey Gene,

I tried reinstalling fallout 2 a few times with no patching at all, official patch, unofficial patch and the restoration. Same sound issues with all of them. I'm using Roland's fallout2.cfg, here is the sound section of it:

[sound]

cache_size=448

device=57368

dma=5

initialize=1

irq=7

master_volume=22281

music=1

music_path1=d:\fallout2\data\sound\music\

music_path2=d:\fallout2\data\sound\music\

music_volume=22281

port=-1

sndfx_volume=22281

sounds=1

speech=1

speech_volume=22281

The only thing I edited was the location of the music paths. I've also tried messing with the device, irq, initialize, dma and port - setting them to various settings.

Just to give a specific example of when the sound is messed up, when you initiate combat and the square in the bottom right opens up all I get is bleeps and bloops and static, no matter what cycles I set it to. Same for clicking on buttons in the game (ie. done, cancel, menu options, etc.) I just get ringing and static.

I have a feeling this sound issue makes it fairly unstable too as it has crashed to blue screen quite often when it is trying to play a sound.

Not sure where to go from here, seems like I'm the only one getting this issue.. :p

Thanks again for all the help!

Aaron
[TouchPad General] bottad:
Got it working

Hey Roland, Gene,

Ok, so I got it working finally. The solution is quite obvious now in hindsight, feel free to whack me upside the head.. :p

I had tried changing nearly ever setting I could think of except for the CPU type of emulation, duh. I had it set to pentium_mmx, changed it to just pentium and the sound works fine now.

The only issue I had after was with the Restoration version, the map scrolling won't let me scroll up on the map once you enter that first temple area. I tried setting all the map scrolling options in the F2_res.ini to on and off but nothing seems to get it to work. So I just went back down to the unofficial patched version and the scrolling works fine.

Also got Diablo to work properly as well. Will have to try out some other games.

Now you can stop groaning whenever I post something! Yay!

Thanks again for all the help!

Aaron
[TouchPad General] gene_wildhart:
Great news! Good to know that pentium cpu emulation works great and that the mmx emulation may cause sound problems. Will note that and take a look at the mmx patch (which is very experimental) to see if I can locate the problem. In the meantime, highly recommend sticking with pentium unless mmx is absolutely required.
[TouchPad General] ruebarb:
Is there a way to get the win98 c.img file to be bigger than 256, like 500, under the 504 cap?

I have tried for days trying to create a bootable.img with the win98 files on it, with no success.

I've used bochs and created the .img with bximage. I load and mount the .img in dosbox (pc) and then can't get the A:> format c: /s to run, gives an invalid unspecified drive. I even got virtual floppy drive to run on win 64bit to host the dos boot disk files on the A drive, didn't help with the error.

When I take any of the hdd images you provided, dump the win98 files into them, change the geometry file in the config file, I get a prompt (F1 dos, F2 disk) by dosbox on the phone, the virtual keyboard does nothing.

What I want to do is have enough room on the img to install 98se updates. I want to play sid meir's pirates, but I get win98 errors that wouldn't be present if it was updated.

Any help or direction would be appreciated.
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
System Requirements

The system requirements for this game are too high, you didn't read the performance info or supported game list in the OP.

Sid Meiers Pirates System Requirements

Operating System: Windows� 98/Me/2000/XP

Processor: Pentium� 1.0 GHz or higher

Memory: 256 MB RAM

Hard Disk Space: 1.2 GB Free

CD-ROM Drive: 4X Speed

Video: 64 MB video card* with Hardware T&L support

Sound: Windows� 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible sound card*

DirectX�: DirectX� version 9.0b (included) or higher
[TouchPad General] ruebarb:
Thanks, I read those and am well aware of those details,(my problem wasn't about the actual ability to play the game, as I can't even attempt to run it.)

If you review my previous post, you only addressed one question. I don’t believe it would have been unreasonable to expect that a supported OS was the latest version of it with all updates applied.

The included win98se does not have by timestamp the latest updates applied, which address explorer and shell32 amongst others.

Please correct me if you actually have the latest. Also I still want to have a bigger img to apply my own updates as this was not already done.
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
Not Possible

1) Its not possible for you to run this game with Dosbox Turbo, the image size is irrelevant.

2) This isn't an image making guide and you're off topic.

Have fun playing any of the games in the supported list:good:

Get image making info here
[TouchPad General] ruebarb:
Previous response noted. Thanks
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
NP,that's the first I've heard about poor mouse controls on the note 3, are you using a custom Rom? Getting the hackers keyboard can be helpful. Inputting commands or editing them is easier with the arrow keys. You can also check the settings and try changing the mouse tracking to absolute but its experimental. Also check that link and look in the videos description for the 2 part download, that's what you want.
[TouchPad General] ruebarb:
Thank again for the video :good:, better info than I've found after 2 entire days of google and forums, never would had found it under that title.

I looked at your video again, I never noticed the 98 mouse didn't follow your actual mouse, it mimics the up down left right, but is way far out to the side, so I am guessing this is normal and why you named it "relative", the 98 mount won't track under your finger. I tried the absolute, but the relative was better. I deleted my previous post, guessing this is just as good as it gets on emulated win98.
[TouchPad General] poncic:
I'm a bit stuck

When I boot up the game I can get to the vault 13 PC but when I press the shortcut for either the D drive or the game I want to play (Fallout 2) it says I have a missing shortcut. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
Games are Not included

Note that Games are NOT included and you need to add them yourself or they won't run.
[TouchPad General] poncic:
Nevermind it turns out it was an issue with my directory route in my dosbox.conf file.
[TouchPad General] viperdream26:
Huge thanks, this is great!

Huge thanks, this is really great. Having ScummVM is nice for adventure games but this really opens up new doors !
[TouchPad General] moeburn:
I just played Raptor: Call of the Shadows on my S3. I farking love DosBox Turbo.

It has a couple of problems though. It keeps randomly freezing/crashing. I'll be halfway through a level, and the entire thing will just suddenly freeze, and I'll have to press my home button and force close Dosbox manually. Any ideas why this is?

I also can't get the audio to stop crackling. I've read every Dosbox performance guide, and they all say "lower the cycles!" Well I've tried every single CPU cycles setting there is, no matter how high or low it is, it has no effect on the sound crackling.
[TouchPad General] gene_wildhart:
There is a terrible bug in Android OS 4.3 that affects any app that uses a SurfaceView or GLSurfaceView causing it to crash after about 10-15 minutes. This crazy thing is, this bug seems to only affect certain hardware as well, while other devices are unaffected. In this case, I'm not sure if it's this bug that is affecting you (if it were, all your games would crash after 10-15 minutes). The bug has been fixed in 4.4 (KitKat), so my suggestion is to try and upgrade to the latest Android.. I attempted a work-around in the latest 2.1.10 version of DosBox, but its a very ugly work-around and not guaranteed to work for all affected devices.

Regarding the audio crackling. My suggestion is to turn off the "Turbo CPU" option. That often helps resolve the audio cracking.

Cheers,

Gene
[TouchPad General] moeburn:
I'm using a Canadian Galaxy S3, so I'm only on Android 4.1.2, so I assume that bug shouldn't be affecting me? EDIT: I feel I should point this out, it's only Raptor: Call of the Shadows that is making DosBox freeze, I haven't yet had the same problem with Prince of Persia. And it's not crashing, it's freezing, without ever showing a force close message.

What "Turbo CPU" option are you talking aboutt? All I see are Turbo Cycles, Turbo VGA, and Turbo Audio. I only have VGA and Audio checked, Turbo Cycles I leave unchecked. Although I've tried toggling all 3, to no effect on the audio.

I did find one thing that made a significant dent in the audio crackling; I lowered the number of simultaneous channels (I think they called them "voices" in the setup) to 1. It eliminated about 75% of the crackling, but it does mean that a gunshot sound will force an explosion sound to stop playing, and the like. Raptor has a ton of sound options in its setup.exe, there might be a better alternative like MIDI or Gravis, but I'm not sure how to set those up, so I've just got it running on SB2.0.
[TouchPad General] gene_wildhart:
I'm sorry... brain isn't working well today. :laugh: I meant please try disabling the "Turbo cycles" option. Another option you can try is using Roland MT-32 or MIDI for music (see the DosBox Turbo FAQ for setup), as the MIDI emulation is offloaded onto another core, while the core OPL music is not.
[TouchPad General] johnbeurer:
I love this Win9x image! :)

The problem is that i can't get fallout 2 plus restoration to work smooth...

I have a Galaxy S4 LTE

My settings:

512 mb ram

256 mb virtual set at vault 13

2gb image used

CPU governor is on the fastest

512 for the art cache

etc.. etc... (so i followed the instructions)

Still very laggy... i can't play it this way.. :(

Any suggestions?
[TouchPad General] bottad:
I had the same problem. You need to run the hi-res setup that should be in the fallout2 directory. Then turn off the hi-res option or high texture or something like that.

Another problem I had with restoration version was the map scrolling didn't work properly and I couldn't get it working no matter what I did. You may run into this problem as well. I ended up just going back to regular version of game.

Good luck!
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
Fallout 2 Restoration Project Performance

Hey there isn't a high res texture option to turn off, please don't give people bad info(edit that post). There is a high res option for sfall but thats off by default. Turning up the resolution will impact the performance. I have a solution for the restoration patch version not scrolling properly. There has been a newer version released since I did my testing with it. The newer 2.2 version appears to have problems with the screen scroll but the older version of the mod works fine. Get the Fallout 2 Restoration project 2.1.2b here and try starting a new game with that. Let me know if this solves the issues and I will add this version to the links. Edit: Here are my saved games for V2.1.2b, this should get you started;)

Edit: I've added some new notes to the guide and thread:

Fallout 2 Notes:

-Fallout 2 should be played at the default resolution of 640x480, with a 8bit color depth for best results. Using higher resolutions or 16-32bit colors can cause the game to become unplayable.

-Killaps Restoration project version 2.2 can cause screen scrolling issues with some maps(Temple of Trials). Using the older 2.1.2b version fixes this problem and should be used instead of v2.2 until this problem can be fixed.

Download Killaps Fallout Restoration project 2.1.2b

Killaps Fallout 2 Restoration Project Main Page:

-Please report this problem to Killap in his thread here and hopefully it will get fixed in his next release.

Thanks for listing your info that saves me from asking redundant questions:) I have noted that the restoration project is much harder to run than the regular fallout2 game. However I can run it just fine on my Note 2, the only problem is long load times but gameplay is fine.

Make sure you aren't using any power saving features or apps this will cripple performance! If you're rooted set your CPU governor to performance or interactive. If you don't have the full updated version of Dosbox Turbo with 3Dfx/glide support, then you might also be lacking the extra 4mb of video memory. You will need to make sure you don't have too many background apps open on the device. Also limit things like too many widgets, live wallpapers or any apps like facebook that constantly looks for updates. These factors might impact performance on the device. Many people don't realize that their setup is slowing the device down and causing a high battery drain. When I shoot videos I disable WiFi this helps to keeps apps from trying to connect. Also Watch this video to get a basic idea of what i'm talking about and start tweaking your device for performance.

Also check these fallout settings:

-Fallout 2 should be played at the default resolution of 640x480, with a 8bit color depth for best results. Using higher resolutions or 16-32bit colors can cause the game to become unplayable.

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[TouchPad General] johnbeurer:
I've managed to make it work! :)

First of all my device and app settings:

I have a european Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505 snapdragon) running 4.2.2 jelly bean (official samsung) with Root and Adam Kernel

I have installed SetCPU (requires root) and set the CPU governor to performance.

Wifi and every background app and stuff off

I have the latest Dosbox turbo installed with the following settings:

- manual cfg (512mb set)

- voodo support on

- sound disabled

- all 3 turbos on

Getting fallout2 working: (Windows 8 - 64bit)

- Installed GoG version of fallout 2

- Installed restoration patch (automatic! F2_Restoration_Project_2.2.exe)

(- optional: making a savegame inside the temple and loading it in win9x will allow scrolling later on... this way we can use 2.2)

- Copied RolandDeschain79's custom cfg into install folder (without sound version, set graphic cache to 768)

- Using f2_res_Config.exe i disabled the Hi-res patch (automatic 640x480 8bit)

- Copied the "Windows 95-98-ME" contents to the install folder (rewriting all the files of course)

- Using winimage 9.0 I copied my fallout 2 folder to a 2gb image

- Copied it to the device

- in Win9x i set the virtual memory to D:/ and 64mb min 128mb max (sidenote: using the win9x 2.0 because of the deamon tools support)

- Simply ran the fallout2 shortcut on the win9x desktop... (optional: load savegame from the temple to avoid scroll problem)

This way even the videos run pretty smooth and the game is finally quite enjoyable! The strange thing is that using only the manual restoration patch i will get a VERY LAGGY game (unplayable) But this way its working completely fine!

Hope I helped! :)

I've also managed to get Age of empires II: the conquerors to work as well! surprisingly 1.0 version is the only working version (no 1.0c patch: it says corrupted)

RolandDeschain79! Your work is awesome! I really love this windows 98 emulation! pure fun! :D I've even painted a flower in paint XD

haha its so fun to see how much the technology advanced tho... 4mb of video memory :D Oh my... now video cards are coming with 4gb... hah... thats just crazy isn't it...

Well THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS AWESOME WAY TO PLAY OLD GAMES!
[TouchPad General] TITAN-23:
Photoshop 7

Great work!

I got Photoshop 7 working well and now I need to be able to share files between win9x and android so I can edit photos.

Is there a way to set up a share network?

Thanks.
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
Photoshop 7 on Android

Wow Photoshop 7, what an interesting use for the for this app. Unfortunately you'll have to load you images with the clip art you intend to use but you can save your work and transfer it off via the images on your PC. Are you able to use Photoshop 7 well with the app, win9x, and your device? Its always fun to try either way:good:
[TouchPad General] TITAN-23:
Photoshop 7 works well. I just open the *.img file with ultraiso to move pictures between my PC and Note 2. This has major limitations as I cannot directly edit photos taken by my phone without a pc. This could be solved if Win9x had an internet connection as I could use Gmail/Dropbox/etc to share the photos between Win9x and my phone storage.
[TouchPad General] amirfoox:
I have a problem:

I've successfully edited the hdd-2gb.img file and added a few games in there in different directories using WinImage, saved, copied the edited file to the proper pathin my Note 2, viewed the dosbox.conf file to make sure the paths are correct, everything loads up fine - when I press back during the windows loading process I can see everything is mounted as it should (hdd-2gb.img in the d drive), and no error message appears, but Windows doesn't detect the 'D:' drive no matter what I try to do, and I've tried everything I can think of.

What might be the cause of this issue, and how do I fix this?

Thanks a lot in advance!
[TouchPad General] apocalypserisin:
Hi ive gotten everything to work fine, fallout 2 works fine although slow on my sprint s3. However, I am now trying to add more games, and they wont fit into the original 2gb image. I have tried adding additional drive imgs for space and virtual memory use, but win9x is not detecting the additional drives. Below is my autoexec section of dosbox.conf:

[autoexec]
[MENTION=279333]ECHO[/MENTION] Off

REM Before editing this dosbox.conf, please click MANUAL MODE under DosBox Settings preference if you plan to use a custom config.

REM Otherwise, DosBox Turbo will overwrite your config file on startup.

ECHO DosBox Turbo for Android

imgmount c: /sdcard/c.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,16,520

imgmount d: /sdcard/hdd-2gb.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023

imgmount e: /sdcard/hdd-2gb2.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023

imgmount f: /sdcard/hdd-1gb.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,520

boot -l c

Win9x detects the original c and d drives, but not e and f.
[TouchPad General] TITAN-23:
I had the same problem with only C & D drives working.
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
Well as you're aware the path to the data can vary depending on your device and version of Android. In addition you will nee to have a class 10 or above SDcard or you will be unable to transfer the data fast enough for gaming. It should say on the card itself what the class is. Have you tried using the devices internal memory? This is the default path that is used for the setup. You can always move other files to the SDcard to make room.

Unfortunately Dosbox is limited to using just 2 drives at a time so you will not be able to add more. You can however switch them around, I have a variety of games loaded on different images and I just swap them from my PC when needed.

The QEMU emulator will allow you to add many drives if you would like to try that out from my guide below. It however doesn't have excellent developer support like Dosbox Turbo and only a handful of games will run. It might be acceptable for using Photoshop though.

[Guide+Video] How to run Fallout 1 & 2 on Android with QEMU
[TouchPad General] joehempel:
I recently came across this great app, and am having a bit of trouble running GoG Fallout 1.

I have the image, and I can get to my fallout directory with the executable, but when running I get the following:

"The program requires Windows 95 with DirectX 3.0a or later or Windows NT version 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or greater."

I'm not sure what to do from here.

Any help would be great!!
[TouchPad General] amirfoox:
I have indeed already tried the default internal memory path, and I'm fairly familiar with Linux directory structure and pathing, so I'm not sure this is the issue. Still no luck, though.
[TouchPad General] joehempel:
Well yeah....that's why I'm asking :P

Did I miss something that could cause that?
[TouchPad General] RolandDeschain79:
Well you missed the point that you need to read the instructions... So ya you missed something, probably a lot of things;)

There are a lot of instructions there, so take your time and have yourself a drink while you read them:D

Basically, You're using a Dos emulator so it will run faster if you use just Dos without the windows overhead.
[TouchPad General] joehempel:
I've gone through the steps like 3 times......the version I have requires windows...if I had the dos version, I think my life would be easier.