PSP DOSBox Build 24.9.2007 - DOS Emulator for PSP

[Murdock]

everyone's idea of "smooth" is different. how many frames per second are we talking about here? i've always been curious to try this emulator, but i don't want to dive into it and waste a bunch of time unless it's truly playable.

:rofl: yeah, right. I was wondering about this sentence , too. "Smooth" in atomic's sense does nto seem to mean "playable", especially concerning Settlers 2. Luckyly, the game runs in this release of DosBox. Beforehand, I received an error when I was trying to start it. But it doesn't run near full speed at all, unfortunately. Eventhough the mouse moves quite fluently, the game itself reacts very sluggish to mouse clicks on objects, buildings, flags, etc.

But other, more simple games are running very well. Commander Keen Series for example is running at full speed. Eye of the Beholder 2 is near or at full speed. Battle Isle is at full, just like Cannon Fodder 1 & 2, Civilisation, Colonisation, Duke Nukum 1 & 2, Lost Vikings 1 and many many others.

Games like Leisure Suite Larry run, but not at 100 % ... but Larry for example is very playable, even the 6th part of the series. I mean even Lords of the realm 2 is running, not very playable, though, but it loads and you can play! So I don'T think it's a waste of time. CrazyC is putting a lot of effort into his work to get the emulator running as best as possible.

However, another thing is that I don't see what Atomic has been editing in the dosbox.conf. I mean to set the GUS emulation to false, okay ... but the rest is as it's been for 2 releases now. You even "forgot" to activate keyhint to make the input of letters with p-sprint easier

Anyway, here's my compiled version:
http://rapidshare.com/files/57854536...Manual_1.2.rar

I've also added DosNavigator to make the loading of games easier. You don't even need to type anything to get the games working. Just use the analog stick and click on the folder u want. Used the (incomplete) manual I've made to get started. It explains the installation of the emulator, how to get games running and why it's not sufficient to "rename" CrazyC's releases to get DosBox running on your computer. I also added elf2pbp3, a tool (not made by me!), which compiled CrazyC's releases to eboot.pbp files.

Anyway, just try it. U'll see that it's very easy to launch games with it. But you should read the manual to understand the emulator.

[Arithmeticae]

Would you mind hosting it somewhere other then rapidshare, their one download per day is rather inconvenient.

[dangee]

is there a good reason to risk all the data
on my memstick with this version,
just to access the ms0: root.
ie can the flash drives be mounted?

[aTomIC]

everyone's idea of "smooth" is different. how many frames per second are we talking about here? i've always been curious to try this emulator, but i don't want to dive into it and waste a bunch of time unless it's truly playable.

Also, i use psp dosbox with frameskip=1 and can play Jazz Jackrabbit in fullspeed but with little sound problems. I tested different old 32kbyte dosgames and they works. Wolfenstein and Spear of Destiny works well but i like to play them on my pc with a real mouse . The Commander Keen series works all with sound and full speed. Slipstream 5000 works but very slow (i played it on my real 80386 dx 40 in fullspeed. why could not run correctly psp dosbox - its emulate a 80486 with 33 mhz.)

Ah, i forgot:
The last Eichhoff and Aro & Elmi works in full speed.
Tony & friends in Kellogg's Land works very, very slow and crashes after title screen.
Also, i tested the fangame "Super Mario" (by Mike Wierry or so) and it runs very slow.

What i would say, PSP DOSBox runs the most old classic dos games. Its emulate only a 80486-33 MHz with maximum 10 megabyte ram and a cga,ega or vga graphic adapter. Some games will not run, some games are full playable and some games full playable with smooth gfx.

If you want play Tomb Raider 1 (dos version of course) on your psp, forget it.

Would you mind hosting it somewhere other then rapidshare, their one download per day is rather inconvenient.

http://www.emunews24.com/files/temp/...Manual_1.2.rar

[indstr]

But other, more simple games are running very well. Commander Keen Series for example is running at full speed. Eye of the Beholder 2 is near or at full speed. Battle Isle is at full, just like Cannon Fodder 1 & 2, Civilisation, Colonisation, Duke Nukum 1 & 2, Lost Vikings 1 and many many others.

I've also added DosNavigator to make the loading of games easier. You don't even need to type anything to get the games working. Just use the analog stick and click on the folder u want. Used the (incomplete) manual I've made to get started. It explains the installation of the emulator, how to get games running

Wow! thanks for the wealth of information and useful file! i will check it out when i get home from work today. I've been in the mood for some commander keen lately so that will suit me perfectly (i know there is a clonekeen port for psp, but i was hoping to play through the entire series ) after i run through that, i may try out some other 2d platforming classics like jill of the jungle, xargon, hocus pocus, electroman :-D

and i guess after that, i will try to run a mod tracker. after hours of turmoil, i finally got octamed to work in pspuae, but it's slooooow and the sound quality is terrible. i just assumed dos would be even slower than amiga, but your post has renewed my faith in it :thumbup:

[Arithmeticae]

http://www.emunews24.com/files/temp/...Manual_1.2.rar

Many Thanks.

Ok, here's a simple question. I noticed that you have it in the GAME150 folder, but I put it in the GAME folder and it works fine. I'm running 3.40 OE-A, which folder should I put dosbox in?

[aTomIC]

Many Thanks.

Ok, here's a simple question. I noticed that you have it in the GAME150 folder, but I put it in the GAME folder and it works fine. I'm running 3.40 OE-A, which folder should I put dosbox in?

In your recovery menu, you set the homebrew kernel to 1.50, so you can put any 1.50 homebrew in GAME and GAME150 folder.

[indstr]

this is wonderful! i've tried commander keen 1, 2, and silverball plus 2. the speed is very impressive. the only problem is that i can't get sound to work at all with them. i've tried running the sound setup.exe with silverball plus 2, and setting it to soundblaster instead of gus, but no luck. nothing comes through for keen either. i have tried multiple things in the dosbox.conf but it seems like nothing works.

i've tried scream tracker and modedit, and they are both able to use the soundblaster. i've also tried alley cat and avoid the noid, and they use the pc speaker just fine.

so what the heck is wrong with soundblaster & games? what am i doing wrong? thanks a bunch!

[Murdock]

this is wonderful! i've tried commander keen 1, 2, and silverball plus 2. the speed is very impressive. the only problem is that i can't get sound to work at all with them. i've tried running the sound setup.exe with silverball plus 2, and setting it to soundblaster instead of gus, but no luck. nothing comes through for keen either. i have tried multiple things in the dosbox.conf but it seems like nothing works.

i've tried scream tracker and modedit, and they are both able to use the soundblaster. i've also tried alley cat and avoid the noid, and they use the pc speaker just fine.

so what the heck is wrong with soundblaster & games? what am i doing wrong? thanks a bunch!

hmm, it's hard to tell what your mistake is. Maybe it's not even your fault and the game just causes trouble or DosBox can't cope with it.

If you want to, u can upload the game(s) somewhere so I can download it and have a look at it/them.
Maybe I can find the error

But don't post the link to the game here ... those admins always get kinda annoying when it's about links to abandonware and other games

Just PM it to me and tell me here that you've done so, since I don't check the PMs daily

[Arithmeticae]

this is wonderful! i've tried commander keen 1, 2, and silverball plus 2. the speed is very impressive. the only problem is that i can't get sound to work at all with them. i've tried running the sound setup.exe with silverball plus 2, and setting it to soundblaster instead of gus, but no luck. nothing comes through for keen either. i have tried multiple things in the dosbox.conf but it seems like nothing works.

i've tried scream tracker and modedit, and they are both able to use the soundblaster. i've also tried alley cat and avoid the noid, and they use the pc speaker just fine.

so what the heck is wrong with soundblaster & games? what am i doing wrong? thanks a bunch!

That's weird, the sound works for me in commander keen. A few things, it may sound stupid, but are you sure you have your volume up? Also, in commander keen 1-3, there is no sound until you actually enter the game, there is no sound in the menus and opening, at least on the psp.

If you still don't have sound what config are you using? Try using Murdoch's config file he has posted a little earlier, that should give you sound.