r/dosbox

question title👆

Hi guys!

I have a i686 Asus EEE 1000HG running Alpine

Is there a way to get DOSBox running here?...

The official website has no generic Linux 32bit binaries and I don't really know what to do

I am trying to install RTZ-RM to play in Dosbox Staging.

I have followed all the instructions I can find on google. But it doesn't seem to be working or I messed something up somewhere.

I have the MT32 roms in my DosBox configuration folder, and my Staging folders. And I thought I had the conf file set up properly, but no matter what I try, it's not playing music.

The CD audio plays fine. But the general game music isn't playing.

If I have to, I can just use the REELmagic option for sound, but it's not overly impressive (I think it uses the SB/DOS version). I enjoyed the MT32 sound for my CD version.

Anyone have any tips for getting MT32 music to work? The sound effects seem to find of work. The river by the lighthouse makes sound. But the vulture in the beginning doesn't. And I can't figure out why I',m only getting some sound effects.

Boxer is built on DosBox, but I understand they Arne't the same thing. So if this is the wrong place to ask, I apologize.

I'm running Return to Zork in Boxer, and I'm having a weird sound issue.

I used my original CDROM disc to install it. But whenever I play it, I get this horrible static/distortion noise after videos play, and it will stop when I go to a new screen or another video plays. But it will start again later.

I have tried setting boxer at 386, 486, Pentium, and Max speeds. But if I set it too fast, I get scratches/skips in the music.

I have tried a Sound Blaster 16 setup, and a Roland MT-32 set up.

I have tried playing from my ISO rip, and my BIN/CUE rip.

Nothing seems to fix it.

Anyone have any tips?

I don't remember this being an issue on my old computer, so I don't remember what to do.

TIA

UPDATE: Holy crap! I think I got it fixed. I was running it with Sound Blaster 16 settings, because I believe it was out at the same time and I always just picked the 16. I just reinstalled it using Sound Blaster Pro, and it seems to work fine now.

Thanks for the staging/X tips though. I have the REELmagic version and have always wanted to play it, but couldn't. Now I might be able to finally check that one out too.

Hillo. I was unable to properly mount a .img file as a Floppy, so I decompiled it and began playing it as such in the mounted folder. However, I am having trouble saving, as the save window hangs. It seems to want to save to floppy and won't accept another path. Any advice would be helpful.

The game is Uninvited (DOS)

I'm new to VirtualMidiSynth. I downloaded it recently primarily to send midi out from ECWolf according to a tutorial I came across. But I'm realizing that many other programs run VirtualMidiSynth upon opening. I know how to prevent a program from running VirtualMidiSynth via the blacklist function. I've already done that with other programs. However with Dosbox-X, I'm curious if there's a way to block it from within Dosbox's config file, because I don't know whether or not there's a future scenario where I would want to try to use it with Dosbox.

And part of this post is me also asking what options exist within the Dosbox-X/VirtualMidiSynth combination? The deepest I've gone so far with MIDI in Dosbox is setting up MUNT MT-32. I don't know the extent of the possibilities with VirtualMidiSynth.

I have a NUC server I use to host some servers like Conan, Enshrouded and Valheim but trying to set it up as a 'remote play' for GOG galaxy for the old Goldbox games like Champions of Krynn and Pools of Radiance

Update drivers and DirectX and feel it 'should' work under OpenGL but when starting Doxbox (either through GOG or separate install) it just closes immediately.

These are specs:

https://preview.redd.it/xfteaba0wl9h1.png?width=786&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e37c2b1e8754af2c6ed6613a354bacc293f4aa1

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards