[Al ex]

Here’s the contents of my expert settings. You need to tweak quite a bit to get Win95 working. Just paste all this into your Expert commands section, and make sure you modify the mountings to match your file & folder structure:

[dosbox]
machine=svga_s3
memsize=128
vmemsize=1

[render]
frameskip=1

[cpu]
# valid core are: normal, simple, full, auto, dynamic
# dynamic is the fastest and optimized for the ARM processor + works with Win9x
core=dynamic
# new paging methods from MB6 & Ykhwong SVN introduce new cputype settings:
# valid cputypes are: 386, 486, 386_prefetch (*), 486_prefetch (*), pentium, pentium_mmx
# (*) = requires normal core setting instead of dynamic
cputype=pentium_slow

cycles=max 105%
cycleup=500
cycledown=500
isapnpbios=true

[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
mixer=false
oplmode=auto
oplemu=fast
oplrate=22050

[mixer]
rate=22050
blocksize=1024
prebuffer=0

[dos]
xms=true
ems=false
umb=true
keyboardlayout=auto

[ipx]
ipx=false

[joystick]
joysticktype=none
timed=false

[midi]
# Only enable MIDI if you have the necessary MT32 ROM files
mpu401=none
mididevice=none

[speaker]
pcspeaker=false
tandyrate=8000
tandy=false
pcrate=8000
disney=false

[gus]
gus=false

[autoexec]
@Echo Off
imgmount c /storage/9C33-6BBD/Games/PC/Win95/c.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,32,520
imgmount d /storage/9C33-6BBD/Games/PC/Win95/2GB_Diablo2.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023
boot -l c

[Al ex]

Done. Thanks for the feedback! ?

[Al ex]

Thanks, added to the list. Do these games support absolute mouse?

[Al ex]

Hi,
what you need is at least a hard disk image file with Windows 95, and Diablo 2 installed. I’m using a 512 MB c.img with Windows, and another 2 GB image as drive d:, which contains the game. The advantage is, that you can copy multiple 2 GB images to your phone, and mount them in different game profiles. So you can more or less install as many games as you want (as many images as your SD card can hold).

Anyway. In the game profile options, scroll down and check “Expert commands”. In expert settings, make sure you have set the correct mounting commands.

My mountings look like this:
@Echo Off
imgmount c /storage/extSdCard/Games/PC/Win95/c.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,16,520
imgmount d /storage/extSdCard/Games/PC/Win95/hdd-2gb.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023
boot -l c

The “boot -l c” command is mandatory to boot up Win95. Maybe adding this will already fix your issue.

If you’re unsure about the mounting, you can look up the correct hd mounting parameters for your hd image file size in the readme included in this package: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zpo4x975poe7co6/HDD_Images.zip/file
You can also use the empty image files if you wnat to add more games.

Check out this layout. It’s for Diablo 1, but I guess it can be easily adapted for Diablo 2.

[Al ex]

We’re getting there. I forgot, you also have to add the U key to the list in the “Hide keyboard on startup” widget. In that case, vanish is enough, no need to set the switch flag.

[Al ex]

Ah, ok. Was just about to post a screenshot. ?

To save, simply press Q (for “Quit & Save”), it’s the only option in U5. You can also use the snapshot feature in mDosbox, but it might be unstable on rare occasions, so it doesn’t replace a proper savegame.
Go and save the world! ??

[Al ex]

Yikes! You’re right, how could this happen!? ?

Anyway, it’s all in the “Switch keyboard/UI” widget, one of the four invisible ones in the middle that are only visible in edit mode. Thanks, I’ll correct that. ? Might work a bit on it anyway. I made this before layers were implemented, it can be done much easier now.

[Al ex]

Thanks, added to the list! ?

[Al ex]

Hello and welcome!
I see you already got a reply to your C&C video, so that’s being worked on. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. ?

[Al ex]

Weird. Seems to be working fine on my S7 edge. Are you running the latest version? There was a quick v64 bugfix release.

Sadly, I own neither a Pixel XL, nor MoM, so I can’t try to reproduce the issue with the same setup. Let’s wait for an official reply.

[Al ex]

Alright, the April 21st build is indeed working better than the one from April 8th. I also have water shaders working properly now (Gles v2, enable water, keep refraction disabled). It’s not optimized in any way though, there’s a huge performance hit when you enable this feature.

Btw, am I the only one who doesn’t like the OpenMW water shaders and thinks the vanilla Morrowind ones look better? Or is it just because Morrowind was the first game with cool water effects back then (I bought a Geforce4 Ti 4200 back then to play it properly ?)?

The controller setup is a pain though. When I hide the onscreen controls, I can’t even launch a game properly, because there’s no visible mouse cursor in the load screen. And the onscreen controls are sort of messed up: the right “thumb stick” emulates relative mouse, so you can’t turn properly. I have to swipe three or four times for a 360° spin for example. Also, inventory management is a pain.

I wish they’d simply implement absolute mouse, so I could tap the screen, and use hold & drag for inventory management.

But: as a proof of concept, it’s working nicely. Especially the UI scaling is great. I’m looking forward to future releases, and I’ll just keep the files on my internal SD (I don’t think it’s healthy to copy & delete 21.000 files over and over again).

[Al ex]

That’s a veeeery nice list. ?
The S7 is a beast, I’ve yet to see a faster phone for Dosbox. Would be interesting to see how the S8/S9 Exynos model performs.

[Al ex]

Controller friendly!? Wow, gotta try that out. ??

[Al ex]

It is indeed. Controls are quite ugly and pretty clumsy, they still seem to identical to the ones sandstranger made back then. And you need to copy the data files folder to your device, which contains almost 20.000 files, a total of 1.3 GB. Wish there was some sort of obb/zip support for that. 😉

[Al ex]

Exactly. I mean, if they aren’t developing their own mobile versions anyway, what’s the damage? But maybe they realized it in the meantime. After that history, noone would’ve taken up the Android development again unless there’s some sort of guarantee Bethesda are cool with it. ?

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