Favorite games

[Foodstamp]

I think he is talking about before Windows. Yes yes, I know it is hard to believe there was a time before Windows.

Master of Magic would not run in DOS unless you allocated more memory in the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Even then it could be pretty hard to get the game to run, because your cd-rom or other hardware might be hogging so much memory that it was impossible to play MoM, so for instance on my computer, after I got a cd-rom, I had to disable it everytime I wanted to play MoM.

I used a bootdisk to solve the problem on my old pre-windows system.

[Agrajag]

Exactly, this fine-tuning of cycles and frameskip settings doesn't make it that easy,

Just tune it once, and then save that configuration as the default setting and you're good to go. That's what I did (for other DosBox games)
Though I also forgot how I did that :S

[Hadrian_II]

Angband
Battle for Wesnoth
Dominions III
MoO 2
HoMM III
Final Fantasy VII
Vampire: Bloodlines
DotA
Wizardry 8
GalaCiv II

This list is not pretending to be complete, but close to it.

[B0rsuk]

lch said:
Exactly, this fine-tuning of cycles and frameskip settings doesn't make it that easy, unfortunately. If you're on Windows, the VDMSound project is an easier way to get the game running for you.

1. Edit the config file
2. Change 2 lines.
2. Forget about it.

Simple enough for me. Besides, I'm 98% sure K.O. uses Linux at home. Perhaps not exclusively Linux, but...

To anyone considering the new version of Crawl, it's a good idea to join ##crawl at irc.freenode.org . That's where players and developers hang around. And the bots are very useful.

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My favourite games ? Too many to list. Some of my favourites:

Archon, Archon Ultra(PC)
DooMII (I didn't have an IBM PC at the time DooM was around)
Master of Magic
The original Command&Conquer
Emperor: Battle For Dune (it had serious flaws, but it also got many things right and tried new things)
Heroes of Might and Magic, especially II, III, IV
Magic Carpet 2
Dungeon Keeper 1,2
Horde
Ultima III (on Atari 65 XE)
System Shock 2
Deus Ex 2
Thief 2: Metal Age
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Quake 2
Quake 3 Fortress (Team Fortress mod)
Planescape:Torment
Little Big Adventure 1 (a.k.a. Relentless)
Worms 2
UFO: Terror From The Deep
Sacrifice
Nox

[Torin]

Its in the config file of dosbox.
MoM require special settings like granting more resources from the system than defaut. At least in my version. Problably later versions of Dosbox require less tweaking.

[B0rsuk]

Torin said:
Its in the config file of dosbox.
MoM require special settings like granting more resources from the system than defaut. At least in my version. Problably later versions of Dosbox require less tweaking.

I never had to change any settings to run MOM in Dosbox . Even frameskip and CPU cycles are optional, they're for performance. And yes, Dosbox is an open-source project and it progressed a lot.

[Torin]

The game runned very slow and sound didnt work (this im not sure) but after changing config it was just perfect.

[Kristoffer O]

> Simple enough for me. Besides, I'm 98% sure K.O. uses Linux at home. Perhaps not exclusively Linux, but...

Windows/linux on my working station.
Mac for mail and browsing.

[lch]

B0rsuk said:
And yes, Dosbox is an open-source project and it progressed a lot.

Uh, as is VDMSound. It's GPL'ed software that's on SourceForge, too. As I said: If you're on Windows, it might be an easier solution to get some old DOS game up and running. Not that DosBox is short of awesome.

[Foodstamp]

I use VDMSound to run MoM now. It has some really great options including sound card emulation. I am not sure if DosBox allows that?