But I like to see how much they can be improved graphically (and with sound, too, in terms of better midi emulation support in Win7/8/8.1).Īnyway, I've reconfigured *all* of my dosbox games to run on the 64-bit executable, updated the Gog SDL.dll library file with the latest version, and games like Stonekeep, for instance, run their fmv/mpeg framerates about 2x as fast as standard-and I use a full configuration startup sequence instead of the chopped up config files Gog uses-you know, the _single and _settings and so forth-every game has three such files when really only one is required-one with a lot more options & commands.Īnyway, don't mean to ramble, but I have as much fun configuring these games as I do playing them, and just wanted to pass along a few recent observations.! ) I know, too, that Gog likes to distribute the old games in their raw, "natural" states for the purists. Gog's are certainly not "bad" but they can look much better with a proper version of dosbox behind them. Also, he's got a lot of cool shaders and stuff that really look nice (I use the HQ2x.fx shaders a lot) in all my dosbox games-because every single one of them runs fine through direct3d-instead of "overlay" and some of those other, barely passable modes that Gog distributes in their configuration files. Judas is right from a strict point of view, I suppose, but I prefer having the newer versions locally and I've reinstalled all my games accordingly because I'm never adverse to improving them even a little bit when running under my latest OS.ĭon't know if you noticed it-I just noticed myself, I guess because I wasn't looking, but DOSBOX SVN-DAUM now includes a dosbox_圆4.exe version of the venerable dosbox.exe program.
) I get 6MB (bytes not bits)/ps down, so it was fairly painless for me to update everything-I think it is worth it, personally, especially if you are running Win7/8/8.1, no doubt about it.
They're also doing something a bit different with the nfig files-in the shortcut Target: paths to each dosbox game. I was just about to do just that! :) I re-downloaded every one of my games and I can tell you that for Win7/8/8.1 the new 2.x install routines are much better-and most (if not all) of my games also include some newer launch files that definitely were not included with the 1.x versions-hence the new compatibility ratings with Win7/8 that weren't present before. Hickory: That's good to know, and thanks.
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