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	Pushwall	2008-02-27 , 13:42
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Originally Posted by ArnimS

It is a dosbox frontend written in Ruby that allows you to launch games with the stylus, and to set up game/program profiles with customized dosbox options.

This is HUGE! Wow, this makes it so much simpler running DOS games. Set them up the way you want them, and then you've got a menu to run them....nice! I like being able to have a different mapper.txt file too based on the game. Some of those old DOS games don't let you reconfigure keys within the game so this will make it much easier to have a unique mapper.txt file for that game (especially useful for N800 users like me when I don't have my bluetooth keyboard handy).

I do have questions concerning the Basic and Advanced settings area. Are all those settings that are shown the settings that are in the default dosbox.conf file? Do I only have to enable the ones that I want to change from what is shown, or do I have to check the enable box to turn on the setting that is shown? I'm guessing I only need to check the enable box for changes, but I just wanted to be sure.

All in all, very nice. Thank you!!!

Last edited by Pushwall; 2008-02-27 at 14:10.

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	ArnimS	2008-02-27 , 14:28
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Originally Posted by Pushwall

I like being able to have a different mapper.txt file too based on the game. Some of those old DOS games don't let you reconfigure keys within the game so this will make it much easier to have a unique mapper.txt file for that game.

Yes. Especially for those pesky function-keys.

And it should be possible to fix dos keymaps for different N810 keyboard language layouts. This seems to be a missing feature in the OS2008 libSDL1.2 but I'm not sure. If anyone makes a mapper.txt fixup for their N810 keyboard please post here.

Originally Posted by Pushwall

Are all those settings that are shown the settings that are in the default dosbox.conf file? Do I only have to enable the ones that I want to changeThank you!!!

Yes. Yes.

Hopefully this will also make it easier for people to share discoveries about which settings work best for particular games and share them over in the tweaks thread:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=15459

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multi	2008-02-27 , 15:07
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any tips for running old 3d fps like heretic ,duke3d or rott?

I can run them with rubybox but not much better than in dosbox.. vga looks nicer.. but still totally lagged

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	Pushwall	2008-02-27 , 16:14
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Originally Posted by ArnimS

Hopefully this will also make it easier for people to share discoveries about which settings work best for particular games and share them over in the tweaks thread:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=15459

Thanks for the info. I'm already testing settings flipping in and out of games. Very quick and easy.

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	bluesubaru	2008-02-27 , 16:31
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Originally Posted by ArnimS

Rubybox requires two ruby packages:
ruby1.8
ruby1.8-maemo
To install these on OS2008, click on the following link to the .install file for the GPL Systems Repository (repository containing ruby) then in application manager go to the section 'programming' and install the ruby packages.

What exactly is ruby? What is installed with the above packages?

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kitsu	2008-02-27 , 16:47
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Ruby is an interpreted programming language like Python (well not like Python, but of a similar type as Python

). When you install the above it installs the frontend program and the interpreter to run it on.

Thanks for the script! I already had sensitivity set to 200, which I guess was the problem. Now I'll be able to figure out the right sensitivity per game. (Also why is it called sensitivity if it is actually the coordinate scale factor?)

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	qole	2008-02-27 , 20:28
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Originally Posted by OSEmuTech

I need to play around with DOSBox some more this weekend.

For future reference ...

Netscape Navigator 4.0.7 for Win16: http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/16bit/4.07

Last Microsoft Win32s version 1.30c: http://ftp.urc.ac.ru/pub/OS/Windows/...ICQ/pw1118.exe

TCP/IP-32 3.11b for Windows for Workgroups: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...-us/tcp32b.exe

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 (LOL): http://browsers.evolt.org/download.p...5.01/ie501.zip

So, did you try any of those browsers under DosBox yet? What's the experience like? Is it even possible to get TCP/IP networking up and running?

And now that we have RubyBox, could you (anyone) post the ideal settings for Win3.11?

Last edited by qole; 2008-02-27 at 20:33.

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	OSEmuTech	2008-02-27 , 22:11
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Originally Posted by qole

So, did you try any of those browsers under DosBox yet? What's the experience like? Is it even possible to get TCP/IP networking up and running?

And now that we have RubyBox, could you (anyone) post the ideal settings for Win3.11?

I haven't tried it yet. I hoped someone else would.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

"Network emulation: A component that differentiates DOSBox from other emulators is its ability to simulate peer-to-peer or Internet/Intranet networking. This includes modem simulation over TCP/IP, allowing for DOS modem games to be played over modern LANs or the Internet, and IPX network tunneling, which allows for old IPX DOS multiplayer games to be played as UDP/IP over modern LANs or the Internet."

Thanks for the RubyBox Arnim! I downloaded it last night within minutes, then went to sleep. Still have to try it out tonight.

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	Addison	2008-02-28 , 01:36
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So real quick here.

What are we supposed to use for a virtual keyboard?

I tried using Xkbd but it behaved like a spastic monkey.

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	OSEmuTech	2008-02-28 , 01:45
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A spastic monkey on banana crack?

That's just it ... xkbd is "broken" on OS 2008, so a BT keyboard or N810 is kind of required, though I guess even those aren't perfect on DOSBox.

If the Matchbox keyboard could be minimized, it might suffice.

I've been considering going back to OS 2007 again to be able to use xkbd with the emulator(s). (But I would really miss Evince.)

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Apple 68k Mac: Basilisk II
Commodore 64: Frodo
Palm OS: Access GarnetVM
TI-89 Calculator: TiEmu 2