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You’re right. Some games feel as if they were made for touch controls. In Advanced settings (ingame menu), there are some fixes for absolute mouse, which sometimes help. DOS programmers seem to have done weird stuff with mouse controls back then. 😉
The widget configuration is so highly customizable, I’m sure you’ll figure something out that’ll suit your needs. If you want some inspiration and examples, just take a look at the different layouts in the .mgc section of this forum. You’ll need to be logged in to see & access it. Almost all of them contain screenshots and additional information.1. Start Magic Dosbox
2. Tap the orange “+” icon on the left
3. Tap “Import profile” (the box icon)
4. Browse to the location of your .mgc file (if you downloaded it to your phone, most likely in /sdcard/Download)
5. That’s it.Mind that you’ll have to adjust the mountings, because the .mgc files will point to the folders where the person uploading the file stored his/her game, and this will most likely differ from your folder structure.
I think TheVCBK is talking about no. 1, the keyb setting in dosbox.conf.
Now, I understand that the UI isn’t meant to include every single config option. But come to think of it: would it be possible to simplify the export-to-clipboard-then-paste-to-expert-settings workaround?
Like, adding a button “Copy config to Expert settings”, that will automate this process? Of course, that would also require an “Are you sure?” yes/no confirmation dialogue, to avoid accidental deletion of user tweaks in Expert settings. ?
OK, obviously a general Dosbox issue. But you can play Starcraft instead, that one’s working perfectly. ?
No, sorry. Doesn’t work. I’ve disabled hardware sound acceleration completely in dxdiag, but the game still crashes.
Changing to SVN core doesn’t help, either.
Vanilla PC Dosbox crashes, ykhwong’s build even enters a BSOD.
Maybe another soundcard config, like SB2? Or maybe try Windows 98?Windows 95 is an evil bastard… ?
Hm, some DirectSound thing perhaps? I’m not 100% sure, but isn’t there an option to reduce hardware acceleration in Windows 95 somewhere?
Exagear is definitely smoother, because it’s not an emulator, but a (crude) W.I.N.E port. But it’s so woefully broken in many aspects, I don’t ever use it.
Magic Dosbox on the other hand, being a real emulator, needs much more processing power, but offers much better conpatibility especially for DOS games.I compared performance on my old Note 4, with Diablo 2. It was unplayably slow in Magic Dosbox, but sort of worked in Exagear. Sadly, the Exagear controls were so poorly designed, it was a PITA to play.
Now on my S7 Edge, Diablo 2 runs perfectly smooth in Magic Dosbox, so there’s no need for Exagear anyway.
What you can do is download the Doom shareware v1.9, and execute it with “doom timedemo -demo3”. The resulting realtics score (2134 gametics in xxxx realtics) will show you how fast your cpu can run Dosbox.
For reference:
S7 (Exynos 8890): 650 realtics (~Pentium MMX 233/AMD K6 300)
Note 4 (Snapdragon 805): 2200 (stock), 1400 (heavily tweaked)
Galaxy A5 (Exynos 7880): 2000 realtics (and I won’t tweak my wife’s phone, she’ll murder me if I brick it?).Glad you got it working. But I fear you will have to live with the performance issues. Your phone has an Exynos 7870 cpu, clocked at 1.6 GHz. My wife’s Galaxy A5 has the similar Exynos 7880, and it’s performing really, but for Win95 you need more horsepower.
The A5 is about as fast as my old Note 4, and that one was struggling with Win95 emulation.If you’re rooted, you can try to set peformance governor, and overclock your device.
OK, let’s just forget you said you pirated the game, and assume that at least your Win95 installation is legal…?
So:
1. use a tool like UltraISO (which is shareware) to open the hdd-2gb.img file. Copy the AgeOfEmpire.iso into this img file, and save.
2. Copy the hdd-2gb.img and Age_of_Empires.mgc to your sdcard
3. Open Magic Dosbox, press the orange “+” symbol at the left, then “Import profile”; search Age_of_Empires.mgc, and open it.
4. Long-press the imported AoE profile, tap “edit”, scroll down to “Expert commands”, and click on the edit button.
5. Adjust the mountings at the bottom of the conf file. They’re pointing to the file locations on my device, which are of course completely different from yours.You can ignore/delete the first imgmount command (A: drive), I’m using this to do automated backups to a virtaul floppy drive, which I sync automatically to my Drive account.
Place the correct mountings for drives C: and D:, then accept the changes (important! Press the green check button, or the changes will be lost), and lauch the profile. If the mountings are correct, you’ll have both drives available in Win95.No problem. I don’t think there’s such things as necroposting here. Not a big forum, so most posts are quite old. 😉
The setup process is quite easy, actually, especially when you have already managed to install Win95. You simply download these hdd images. Then unzip the 2GB image, copy the AoE iso file to it, mount it as drive D, and run Win95. Best use either Virtual Clone Drive or a (very) old Daemon Tools version, mount the iso file as CD in Win95, install AoE to your C: or D: drive, and you’re good to go.
I prefer to keep a small 512 MB C: drive, with only Win95 and some tools and drivers installed, and use multiple 2GB D: drives, to install all my games. This way, I can create lots of different game profiles with different touch screen layouts, and mount the according D drive hdd image.WARNING: make sure you’re using the correct hdd settings, or Windows won’t boot up, or spam error messages. For the 2GB image, it’s 512,63,64,1023. These values are included for all sizes inside the zip file I’ve linked to above.
Is your controller properly connected to your phone? I mean, does it show as connected in your bluetooth dialogue screen? And have you started it correctly? My iPega for example can be launched in four different modes:
- – X+Home: Gamepad mode
– A+Home: Keyboard mode
– B+Home: iCade mode
– Y+Home: Bluetooth-SPP & mouse mode(don’t ask me what the B & Y combinations do…)
Anyway: the gamepad remembers the last setting. So if I press “Y+Home” accidentally, it will stick to that afterwards when I simply activate the gamepad with “Home”. I’d have to do a full re-pairing with “X+Home” to correct that.Maybe your gamepad has a similar functionality?
Take a look at the Expert settings. You have to edit them anyway. It doesn’t matter how you have installed Win95 and AoE, as long as it’s working. If you have e.g. installed both on a single image file, it’s perfectly okay. But you’ll have to adjust the -size parameter, because your image will have a different size than mine, if both Windows and AoE fit onto it.
If Dosbox is stuck on “boot c”, it’s usually a sign that the -size values are wrong. Here are the correct values for different hdd image sizes:
32MB: 512,63,16,520
256MB: 512,63,16,520
512MB: 512,63,32,520
1GB: 512,63,64,520
2GB: 512,63,64,1023If you want the according empty hdd images, get them here.
