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The image isn’t being displayed. Can you upload it to a service like https://picr.de/?
FYI, pirated software isn’t supported. If you downloaded the game, it’s highly likely that the bug comes from a bad CD rip, or some changes to the game files made by however uploaded the game.Hi,
what command do you type, and what exact error message do you receive?
ScummVM only needs the game libraries, whereas Dosbox emulates a full x86 PC, and needs the game executable, too, so mayve you need to check if your files are complete.
Yes, I was wondering about that exactly, because it’s working fine for me. I was asking because I’d like to know if it also crashes when using other methods to input Esc.
That’s strange, it’s working fine for me. Sure you didn’t change anything in the game settings, or in your Dosbox profile? What if you use the built-in Magic Dosbox keyboard, or place an Esc key widget on the screen?
You can download DirectX 8a from here: https://www.fileplanet.com/112836/110000/fileinfo/DirectX-8.0a-for-Win95
Just copy it into an ISO image, e.g. with UltraISO.
Not sure if this will actually fix the colour issue, but it never hurts to be up to date. Well, sort of. ?
Win95 isn’t officially supported in Dosbox, so all kinds of weird stuff can happen.
Does it work in the desktop version of Dosbox (Windows/Linux)?One thing you can try is the “SVN Core” setting in your profile configuration.
I’d suggest relative mouse for precision, and a widget that will trigger a mouse click over the hit button.
Did I close the whole topic!? Just wanted to delete my double post, sorry!
(Damn tiny phone screens…?)Easy: left click is broken in Virtual Clone Drive. Simply use right click to open its context menu, and mount an image. 🙂
You can build your very own layout in Magic Dosbox, so it’s even better suited for all kinds of DOS games. 🙂
Actually, that’s what Magic Dosbox is all about: to create the perfect layout for yourself, and share it with others, if you like.
Check out the .mgc section of this forum, there are some layouts for Doom and other titles there already.Beloko’s ports are great, but the control scheme is limited to a handful of action titles. I thoroughly enjoyed his Jedi Outcast & Academy ports, which are among the best “Android” games available. But there aren’t many DOS games that would benefit from such a control scheme, except some Doom-style shooters, and it would require a tremendous amount of work to implement a completely new UI.
my suggestion: Use a smaller (e.g. 512 MB) C: drive image that contains only your Win95 installation, and use alternating 2GB D: drive images. On this D: drive image, copy the iso file of the game you want to install, e.g. with UltraISO, then use Virtual Clone Drive in Win95 to mount this iso file as cd-rom. You can then install the game from the virtual cd-rom drive to your D: drive, and play it from there.
Advantage: you can create multiple layouts for multiple games, and mount different D: drive images. I’m keeping six 2 GB image files on my external sd (it’s 128 GB, so I’ve got lots of space), so I can play 10 different Win95 games whenever I want.
You can create the .mgc files yourself. One part is the dosbox setup, in this case expert settings, to run Win95, the other part is the onscreen buttons layout. It’s all stored in one .mgc file when you click on export, but you don’t need download any such file to use Magic Dosbox. They’re only for layout sharing.
It won’t run anywhere half-decent on any phone. You can use Bochs for best compatibility, but like any other PC emulator for Android, it’s lacking all forms of 3D acceleration, so forget about playing anything.
That’s why Dosbox is called “Dos”-box btw. Even Windows 95 isn’t officially supported. They keep telling so on the official Dosbox forums if you ask about it there. ?
