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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. ?
IIRC, the K1 Shield scores about 1000 realtics. Sometimes lower, sometimes higher, but pretty much close around 1000. Tony (dev) can clear this up, he owns a Shield.
Tegra is certainly good. Kirin cpu’s also seem to be doing well. Personally, I can recommend the high-end Exynos chips from Samsung. You can use the Doom Shareware timedemo mentioned on the DTurbo site to get some good comparison scores. This benchmark is some kind of standard btw, not made up by the DTurbo guy, but discussed on the official Dosbox forums much earlier.
Some of my own results (lower is better):
The S7 Edge (Exynos 8890, 2,3 GHz): 670-850 (root + performance governor: 650)
Galaxy Note (Snapdragon 805, 2,7 GHz): 2100-2400 (root + performance governor: 1400)
Galaxy Note 2 (Exynos 4412, 1.6 GHz): 2000 (root + performance governor: 2000, no difference)
Galaxy A5 2017 (Exynos 7870, 1,6 GHz): 2000As you can see, the Exynos chips always did very well for me. Plus the SD 805 overheated all the time, so I had to use a custom kernel and force it to run as dual core 2,7 / 1,2 GHz instead of 4x 2,7 GHz quad core, to keep performance at a somewhat steady level. And I asked a guy who owned a Snapdragon 820 Galaxy S7, and his scores were abysmal, too. That’s why I would never ever touch a Snapdragon again. Let alone it’s incompatibility with GLTools and Half-Life 2, which I can run flawlessly on my Exynos phone.
tl;dr: get a high-end Exynos (88xx), Tegra, or Kirin chip. Don’t buy a Snapdragon. 🙂
