PSP DOSBox v0.71 Build 02.01.2008 - Dos Emulator for PSP

[aTomIC]

New day, new release ;). CrazyC released a new build of his famous port of DOSBox for our PSP. He wrotes:


I put up a new build which attempts to auto calculate the cylinder,head,sector values. The result should have a number of sectors just slightly less then the actual on the disk. Hopefully it will also be larger then the first partition, but if not it won't be terrible as dosbox only uses CHS for int 13h operations which very few apps use. In short, don't try to run fdisk from within dosbox. To do it run "imgmount <drive> msstor0: -t hdd -fs fat".

Get the latest build from:
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=9564
or:
http://www.emunews24.de/dosemus.html#sony%20psp257

[kyyubidx]

hum... 02.01.2007? YAY!! we travelled back through time!!

*seriously*

Its great to have a new build of DosBox but in all that text you quoted I failed to understand in what does this new build have anything new... In terms of speed of course...
Anyways great post ;)

[aTomIC]

Aarrgh, thx for the message. I fixed the date. Sorry.


Its great to have a new build of DosBox but in all that text you quoted I failed to understand in what does this new build have anything new... In terms of speed of course...
I don't understand CrazyC, too. But, i think he improved the hdd emulation because there were some trouble mounting an image.

[kyyubidx]

ooooh... ok... that's fine I guess :P

[ANorthernSoul]

Great stuff.

A very noobish question, I know, but I've mounted my Theme Hospital directory as CD-rom, now what command do I type to use it? I'm trying to get around the No CD error, as I obviously can't insert my CD.

[myuusmeow]

If you can't get this to work, then try the Theme Hospital PSX game with Popstation.

[jurkevicz]

I need help with controls for Alone in the Dark. Can anyone tell me how to assign the controls in the config?

[No_one_in_particular]

If you can't get this to work, then try the Theme Hospital PSX game with Popstation.
No worries, I've got it working now. There's no music and the ingame animations are unwatchable, but it's still very playable. I'd just like to find out what benefits mounting to a CDROM or an ISO give, really.


I need help with controls for Alone in the Dark. Can anyone tell me how to assign the controls in the config?
You'd be better off using .bat file placed inside AITD's directory. Here's my .bat I'm using for Theme Hospital:
http://download.yousendit.com/4143609F531FE3C2

edit it using Notepad, change the function at the end of each line, as you can see I've used half the buttons so I could spell my name easily when starting Theme Hospital (you only really need the mouse buttons when playing Theme Hospital - which I've assigned to X & [] for ease).

button1 and button2 are the two mouse buttons, and if you'd like you can change R & L by using rtrigger & ltrigger. They're defaulted as the mouse buttons, with the joystick being the mouse itself.

Finally don't forget to change the final word to the name of the .exe your gonna be executing. As you can probably guess mine was hospital.exe

Now when you come to play Alone in the Dark, instead of launching the exe, launch the .bat which will map your buttons and then launch the game itself.

[jurkevicz]

Thanks, that helped a lot!

[No_one_in_particular]

No worries, copy and paste your .bat commands here once you've got them figured out - I wouldn't mind seeing what all the fuss is about. :)

[TheLazy1]

I tested these games:

Commander Keen 4 - Runs pretty well, almost full speed music + sound (some crackling)
Commander Keen 6 - Same as above
Duke Nukem II - Some slowdowns, playable with music off

This is an amazing port, my only suggestion would be an increase in volume.
It's pretty quiet even with the volume at max.

[hokk]

Has anyone tested Civilization 1? I've tested it and it runs very well but the psp locks and shuts down after playing the game for about 4 min.

Got Slim with 3.71 M33-2.

Any suggestions?

[alek777]

my windows 3.1 on slim works now!!

[Bane King]

Try not to rip on me too hard but how do you use the shift key?

[No_one_in_particular]

Took me a while too.

http://www.niwra.nl/psp/p-sprint-c/doc/images/keygroup1qwerty_black.gif

So if I was trying to type a capital A, then I would do this:
Press and hold triangle, then press the up arrow, release both and then press circle.

[hokk]

One question. If I use INPUTMAP to bind the psp buttons to keyboard buttons, and then launches the game with INPUTMAP EXEC some games and apps won't work correctly (like heroes and win3.1) .. How can I solve this problem? Is there any other way to bind buttons?

[jvabbdac]

Please...I need i litle help...How can i install a game and use with this emulator ? I want try Constructor, anybody know if its will work ?

**Sorry my bad english !

[No_one_in_particular]

Put some effort in ! Do a search, I'm sure you'll find Murdock's guide.

[4luc42d]

apologies beforehand as i am unfamiliar to dosbox and how it operates how would i go about running return to zork a cd-based dos game? i have the cd already imaged it to run faster on my comp im just trying to play on my psp now.