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Started by dew7, May 06, 2006, 12:52:53 AM

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dew7

Well, I decided to try Dosbox and see if it worked with the old King's Quest games on my Roberta William's Anthology.  Well, it seemed to work fine except when I run them from Windows 98SE the games are in full screen and they are in a box when I run the games in Dosbox.  I noticed the music in KQ4 was a little off in Dosbox but worked great in 98SE.  I also have been able to run KQ4 in XP but without any music.  Anyway, I just felt like telling everyone in the forum that I like experimenting with new programs for the computer and I had heard a lot about Dosbox and so I decided to try it out.
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Oldbushie

Yeah, I don't know what's up with fullscreen in dosbox.. apparently someone managed to get it working though so that the game fils the screen...
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I never had any problems with fullscreen...Have you tried setting up the music with the sierra install programs?
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dew7

Naw, I have not really tried too much in Dosbox but I wanted to see what the fuss was about.  Anyway, Jafar how did you manage to get Dosbox to run in full screen.
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Jafar

I pressed Alt-Enter. :P It worked in 98, 2000, and XP.
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dew7

Thanks, I will have to try that -- funny I did not notice that in the readme or faq  ---  ;)  8)  :P
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Dirk Delshire

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If you want to make it easier to play the games in dos-box get the
D-fend program it makes it easy to access your games and lets keep all of them in a nice little window list. Here's a list of the commands I have just in case you deleted your readme file.

Control-F5 = Print picture (The picture will go to a folder in Doxbox or Defend depending on if you have defend. You can also tell it where to go in defend.)

Control-F6 = Record and also stop recording for a wave file of the sounds and music playing at the time.

Control-F9 = Kill dosbox for a quick exit

Control-F10 = start-stop mouse emulation (So you can jump out to click a chatbox in IRC) ;)

Control-F11 = Slow down the emulation

Control-F12 = Speed up the emulation
     
Alt-Enter = to Maximize and Minimize the window.(Fullsize or not Fullsize)

Here's where to get Dos-box and D-fend:

Dos-box:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

D-fend:
http://members.home.nl/mabus/
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