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« Reply #75 on: March 20, 2007, 02:10:13 am »
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it says to mount a directory, first one needs to be created, but it won't create one. If I create one in the linux console, where do I create it? and how do I navagate to it in dosbox to mount it?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=156775\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
run dosbox
then type:
Code: [Select]
mount c /mnt/card/directoryyouputyourdosgamesin
c:
dir
cd nameofgamedirectory
runthegame
hope that helps I'm headin' to bed to play some Wasteland before falling asleep.
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« Reply #76 on: March 20, 2007, 02:14:47 am »
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it says to mount a directory, first one needs to be created, but it won't create one. If I create one in the linux console, where do I create it? and how do I navagate to it in dosbox to mount it?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=156775\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
run dosbox
then type:
Code: [Select]
mount c /mnt/card/directoryyouputyourdosgamesin
c:
dir
cd nameofgamedirectory
runthegame
hope that helps I'm headin' to bed to play some Wasteland before falling asleep.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=156777\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Thanks, I got it mounted on the hard drive, now I have to decide what programs to run, most of the dos games that I have use the F1-F10 keys.
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« Reply #77 on: March 20, 2007, 02:16:01 am »
Wasteland is great because you don't really even need the mouse. there's keyboard shortcuts for most things (IMMSMC).
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« Reply #78 on: March 20, 2007, 02:17:00 am »
only 1/2 of the keyboard works though. We really need a Zaurus keymap for all the keys.
And a list of the special keys, who would think a semicolon=colon?
Antikx, the mouse seems to work in the latest posted version dosbox_0.70-iwmmxt_armv5tel.ipk
I also think there's something funny going on in meanie's pdaxii13. when you first launch dosbox, the shift key produces an unending stream of this ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I have to hit shift again, then backspace all the ,,,,,,,,,,,,, chars
One more question, I only have my dos 6.0 disks, can I use that version of dos edit in dos 5.0?

edit.com from dos 6.0 works, but I cannot use the expand utility to expand any of the files with the underscore in the extension. I need the _ or ? available
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« Reply #79 on: March 20, 2007, 02:30:41 am »
good points Jon_J.
Now I'm really going to bed.
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« Reply #80 on: March 20, 2007, 03:07:26 am »
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it says to mount a directory, first one needs to be created, but it won't create one. If I create one in the linux console, where do I create it? and how do I navagate to it in dosbox to mount it?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=156775\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
run dosbox
then type:
Code: [Select]
mount c /mnt/card/directoryyouputyourdosgamesin
c:
dir
cd nameofgamedirectory
runthegame
hope that helps I'm headin' to bed to play some Wasteland before falling asleep.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=156777\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

A simple way to do that:

Code: [Select]
dosbox  /mnt/card/directoryyouputyourdosgamesinto launch dosbox

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« Reply #81 on: March 20, 2007, 03:10:04 am »
anyone know where the question mark and underscore are?
I've been mashing a lot of key combos lately.
I just found the ?
It's right shift plus /
Now I can use this for a wildcard and unpack my files with expand.
These odd keyboard combos need to be documented somewhere.
Here are some that I have found in "dosbox_0.70-iwmmxt_armv5tel.ipk"
The below characters are not marked, or are not in the correct place on the Cxx00 clamshells.
Code: [Select]
To get these characters    (Right shift makes caps and some other hard to find chars)

 :  (Fn + Right Shift + g)        = colon
 ?  (Right Shift + /)             = question mark (a dos wildcard)
 \  (Fn + Left Shift + /)         = back slash
 |  (Fn + Right Shift + /)        = pipe
 >  (Right Shift + .[period])     = greater than
 _  (Fn + Right Shift + -[dash])  = underscore
 @  (Right Shift + 2)             = at (@)
 ^  (Right Shift + 6)             = (^)
 &  (Right Shift + 7)             = ampersand
 *  (Right Shift + 8)             = asterisk (another dos wildcard)
 (  (Right Shift + 9)             = left parenthesis
 )  (Right Shift + 0)             = right parenthesis
Now, I just need to find the Function keys F1 - F10
I included a screenshot of the keymap
« Last Edit: March 20, 2007, 04:13:08 am by Jon_J »
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« Reply #82 on: March 20, 2007, 10:00:23 am »
Thanks Jon_J and wellswang.
I'm getting the occasional freezup playing Wasteland. I typically need to press Ctrl + Alt + Backspace and wait about 30 seconds for X to die.
Anyone else have that problem or is it possibly game specific?
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« Reply #83 on: March 20, 2007, 12:15:55 pm »
I don't have Wasteland.
This other game is very slow, but plays.
Betrayal at Krondor
http://www.google.com/search?q=betrayal+at...lient=firefox-a

I may try Dungeon Master next.
I had Dungeon Master partially running in Cacko, I still have the ingame screenshots.
For some reason in this version of dosbox, when I launch the game, I cannot use the "monitor" selector.
I need to input the number (1) VGA or (2) EGA, but the selector disables these number keys.
I can type all numbers except 1 & 2 (I tried a lot of key combos)

I finally got the 1 and 2 keys working. I don't know how it worked, but I played the game awhile and made a save.
Later, I came back and tried the game again, and this game always asks you to select several things before starting, the 1 and 2 were gone this time.
It's a crapshoot, trying to input numbers 1 and 2 into this game's startup settings.

EDIT: Final edit, I think I figured out how to get Dungeon Master to load it's settings screen, so I can input the numbers 1 & 2 etc.
Reboot your Zaurus, then when 'X' is loaded, plug in your USB mouse, then launch dosbox.
Launch this game and input (1) - VGA, then make any other selections that come up.
(This game needs a mouse, and I remember now, that the Cacko version didn't load the mouse properly).
This game is actually playable.    I have sound turned off.
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« Reply #84 on: March 20, 2007, 05:10:49 pm »
Anyone get a cdrom mounted in dosbox?
My cdrom mounts automatically in pdaxii13. Then I load dosbox.
It tells you how to mount the cdrom in the intro, but this is for windows only (I think)
it says to:
mount d D:\ -t cdrom
it also goes on and says to replace  D:\ with the location of your CD-ROM.
I tried
mount d /mnt/cdrom -t cdrom
and
mount d mnt\cdrom -t cdrom
and
mount d \mnt\cdrom -t cdrom

I have a game that needs installed on a DOS box, but I cannot run the installer on my windows XP box. Otherwise, I would just copy the entire directory over to my Zaurus.

EDIT:
I got it, I had already tried to mount the cdrom to /data/dos, so the following didn't work, and I wasn't sure how to unmount it.
So, I exited dosbox, and tried again, using this command. It worked.
mount d /mnt/cdrom -t cdrom

The instructions were a bit confusing at first.
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I won't go into the details, but Interplay's "Stonekeep" won't run on the Zaurus. Too many sound and CD-ROM related things.
I remember playing this about 10 yrs ago. It's a 1995 game.
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« Reply #85 on: March 20, 2007, 06:41:33 pm »
Has anyone tried to play Captive - I would love to be able to play it.
Need to dig it out somewhere...

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« Reply #86 on: March 20, 2007, 06:47:25 pm »
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Has anyone tried to play Captive - I would love to be able to play it.
Need to dig it out somewhere...
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Is this it?
[a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive[/url]
I only have windows/dos games, myself
Opps, I saw Amiga, and just assumed it was for Amiga only.
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« Reply #87 on: March 20, 2007, 10:55:05 pm »
If you want to get more old dos games,
you may love here:
http://www.abandonia.com/genre.php?genre=allgames&page=0

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« Reply #88 on: March 20, 2007, 11:45:07 pm »
I've compiled dosbox 0.70 with sdl-sound support and iwmmxt, O4,fast-math and unroll-loops optimzations.
and of course i fixed some of the keys...
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« Reply #89 on: March 21, 2007, 12:47:56 am »
How do you expect me to get any compiling done when I'm walking down memory lane?
I need a dual Zaurus setup like Meanie.
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