Not only DOSBox is not the solution for everything (does not run every game
perfectly), there would be no point in keep developing FreeDOS if indeed
"DOSBox was the solution for all problems".





A domingo, 6/03/2022, 17:44, Joao Silva <joao1...@gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hello.
>
> Dosbox will solve all your problems!
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 11:04 PM Carlos Teixeira <carlos.t...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> all DSI games that use that same engine, Grand Prix Circuit, The Cycles,
>> Test Drive 2 have that issue. You launch the games and you just get a black
>> screen. I commented on the video comment section days before it premiered
>> that he should test Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 as i was sure those
>> would fail. Somehow my comment is not there anymore, but i'm glad that he
>> did test them.
>>
>> There's also the floppy versions of Alone in the Dark 1 and Alone in the
>> Dark 2:
>>
>> https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp/issues/107
>>
>> It's something about corrupted PSP's that somehow do not crash on MS-DOS
>> but crash on FreeDOS. So these Alone in the Dark games might need to be
>> patched to work on FreeDOS.
>>
>>
>>
>> A sexta, 4/03/2022, 20:56, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> escreveu:
>>
>>>
>>> Let me summarize this ;-)
>>>
>>> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4
>>>
>>>   - Lots of games had CD driver issues in FreeDOS 1.2 and are fine now
>>>
>>>   - Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 still do not run
>>>
>>>   - most games work best in boot option TWO, which is a sane JEMMEX
>>>     config. I guess the default is option ONE, insane JEMMEX tuning? ;-)
>>>
>>>   - Wing Commander needs JEMM386 instead, I have no idea why?
>>>
>>>   - some games do not like any EMM386, of course
>>>
>>>   - the video mentions zero games not liking HIMEM, I think?
>>>
>>>   - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions
>>>     and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand
>>>     made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p
>>>
>>>   - one of the installers took 20 minutes, but the legacy one was fast?
>>>
>>>   - lots of youtube viewers ask whether Windows WfW 3.11 is supported
>>>     and I bet they mean 386enh mode (in WfW 3.11, non-386enh is just
>>>     left as a sort of safe mode, while in Windows 3.x, standard mode
>>>     was still relatively useful for those not supporting 386enh mode)
>>>
>>> Maybe somebody can tell me what is going on with GP Circuit and with
>>> TD2 in FreeDOS? Do we know which compatibility problems they trigger?
>>>
>>> Have any recent kernel updates made WfW 3.11 work in a less convoluted
>>> way in FreeDOS and if yes, which specific tricks are needed to run it?
>>>
>>> I remember you had to disable windows disk drivers to let it use DOS
>>> and/or BIOS instead if your disk is non-tiny? And you had to limit
>>> the size of visible RAM if you had too much of it? HIMEM etc. have
>>> special options for that and you can also tune various things in Win3
>>> configuration files, such as the swap address space ratio etc. There
>>> also was a FreeDOS tech note long ago, I believe.
>>>
>>> Regards, Eric
>>>
>>>
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