Monopoly Deluxe



Basic settings:
Executable: MONOPOLY.BAT
cpu cycles: 500
dosbox machine: vga
render frameskip: 0
sblaster sbtype: sb1
sdl fullscreen: true
sdl sensitivity: 200 (it's the best setting even though it's not the greatest)

This is how my MONOPOLY.BAT is set up:
mp DIGI=SBLASTER.COM

I'm sure that this game could be screaming fast, but I chose slower settings to get better sound quality during gameplay.

If you want the MIDI music to run, which I didn't use, you'll need to run the INSTALL.BAT file and drop the cycles down even further to 400.

The game has loads of options and a neat little system to create your own personal hot-keys.

I made my own so I thought I'd might as well share them in case anyone is interested.

Just copy the MP.INI to overwrite your old one.

The right on-screen keyboard goes hand in hand with the settings in that file.

To get the left keyboard running it's:
xkbd -geometry +65536+65536 -k /media/mmc2/x.xkbd

To get the right keyboard running it's:
xkbd -geometry +722+65536 -k /media/mmc2/m.xkbd

Known problems:
First, the game takes about 90 seconds to load up.
Second, since xkbd still isn't all too friendly with the keys "a-z", you might be best to avoid them, even when trying to use them as capital letters.
I'm not sure of this, but I think the game will crash if you're pressing on the virtual keyboards while the pieces are moving on the board.
Since the mouse kind of blows, it is possible to do almost everything using the D-Pad, Center D-Pad/Enter, Select/Space, Roll/Backspace, and Tab buttons. It just takes a little getting used to, that's all.
Lastly, it's absolutely essential that you apply the 1.50 patch to the game since it fixes numerous bugs and makes the animations run much better on slower machines.

Here's where you can find the patch:
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=...150.zip&ref=ps


Overall rating for this game: 5 stars out of 5

This has so many in game options to customize, I think most of you will really like it even if you're one who thinks that Monopoly is just for ******s and small farm animals.


Here's my personal files:
MP.zip
x.zip
m.zip


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