I have never read any DOSBox tutorials, so sorry for this obvious suggestion, try googling "dosbox tutorial" 😅 If you find a good tutorial, let us know here. That said, the DOSBox version I am currently using is a "svn" version (with changes that have not yet been released), as well as a few enhancements. It is called DOSBox-X, and their wiki page is here: https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/ I added a readme to my zip file and in the directory https://fractint.net/ftp/current/DOSBox/ on the web, and made small changes to fractint.net. Tim On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 7:43 PM mchris@value.net - Webmail <mchris@value.net> wrote:
Tim,
Could you point me to a good tutorial on working with DOSBox in Windows 10? I have a lot of legacy PC games that I would like to run which would require some sort of speed control.
Thanks, Bud
----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Wegner" <tim@tswegner.net> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" < fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 2:43:23 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] DOSBox and Fractint - need testing
One DOSBox note that may save some frustration. The keystroke ctr-F10 toggles whether the mouse is active inside DOSBox. If you lose the mouse outside of DOSBox, that keystroke will get it back.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 4:32 PM Timothy Wegner <tim@tswegner.net> wrote:
Lately I have been getting emails from folks who long ago used Fractint, and wanted to try it again, only to discover it doesn't run under Windows. My guess is that these folks have lots of time on their hands because of the pandemic, which is why I am suddenly hearing from folks. Of course there are various other possibilities, including the SDL version Jonathan is working on, but my general answer has been to suggest they run the DOS version with DOSBox. I had generally recommended a version called DOSBox SVN Daum on a Chinese site. But today I learned that it is no longer maintained and is not recommended. So I found a much more recent DOSBox version, and set up some files that should make it very easy to use with Fractint. I would like some folks to try it. I have not yet written a readme or other instructions, but they are pretty simple. I would love some folks here to try it and and tell me if it works for you.
Download the file https://fractint.net/ftp/current/DOSBox/DOSBoxX_Fractint.zip
Unzip the zip archive to a directory on your Windows machine. You will see the directory DOSBoxX_Fractint containing a batch file, a directory for DOSBox-X and a directory for Fractint. You should be able to locate the batch file in Windows explorer and run it. DOSBox should come up running Fractint. Let me know if this works.
DOSBox is the DOSBox-X version 0.83.7 compiled Oct 31, 2020, and Fractint is version 20.04.14. The VESA video modes should work up to 1600x1200
Feedback much appreciated.
Hope everyone is healthy, my family is fine here.
Tim
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