[ManfredVonRicthofen]

Hey Tony I have a question… What’s the advantages, if any, of 64 bit architecture Google forced you to update the app to, vs the old existing 32 bit? Why did Google mandate this change?

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

Hey Alex, since the original post i made here months ago, whenever i had any choppiness a reboot would take care of it no problem…. so its not really an issue for me.

when I saw your reply above about optimize battery, i went into my settings and noticed it was checked by default… so i unchecked it… what exactly does this function do? would it boost my performance or just prevent magic dosbox from draining battery in the background if left running? should i not have unchecked this since i didnt have any issues to begin with?

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

I’ll give it a go with the loopers… I need every button on the controller to squeeze as many functions in as possible. I played a lot of flight sims back in the 90s…before the game developers turned stupid and made nothing but first person shooters like now.

I’ve managed to bind almost every key I need to play tie fighter into the controller, and rest r done using widgets onto the screen itself. If I can master using loopers, I can probably squeeze in even more functions and play complex games like Jane’s AH64D longbow ??

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

Yep, I play on a Sony ps4 dualshock 4, and it works flawlessly with magicbox ?

Yeah I guess I should explain in detail what I’m trying to do..

So I am playing star wars dark forces, it’s a first person shooter. There’s 10 weapons, and I want to use the 4 way (+ shape) directional pad to be able to pick 8 weapons..

Weapon 1 is up
weapon 2 is right diagonal up
weapon 3 is right
weapon 4 is right diagonal down
weapon 5 is down
Weapon 6 is left diagonal down
Weapon 7 is left
Weapon 8 is left diagonal up

I prefer the + shape 4 way directional pad because if I press both up and right its registered as diagonal… On a 8 way thumbstick it’s too sensitive and sometimes diagonal up and right can be incorrectly registered as up or right..not diagonal.

What I want my 4 way d-pad to do is when I press up and right, I don’t want it telling the game I pressed 1 and 3, but just tell the game I pressed button 2. I hope this helps.

Thanks for all the help guys, I am LOVING magicbox… I don’t have to play all the stupid games out today, it’s all multi-player and dumb.

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

There is no option for 8 way, I am guessing it’s because d-pad only has 4 directions?

Is there a way I can press buttons 1 and 3 on my controller, but instead of magicbox sending that 1/3 button input to the game, it sends only diagonal button press 2? I think my game sees two buttons being pressed at the same time and doesn’t work.

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

That’s a good idea.. So what you did was one copy of windows with a full game installed and running on virtualbox, then u imaged the whole thing so that one image has ALL you need to run in dosbox without having to image mount, right?

Here’s a question… Where did you download the windows 95 drivers needed to run it correctly inside virtualbox? Does oracle provide them? It didn’t seem like it to me…. When virtualbox recreates a pc inside virtualbox, I can’t tell what video card it mimics, so I can’t tell which company’s driver I need to download.. This applies to other hardware as well. Because of this I noticed that a lot of the hardware runs in compatibility mode.

EDIT: so I think I found something… https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9918

I’m gonna give the guide here a go and see if I can use these generic Scitech drivers

BTW… WOW I can’t believe u got half-life 2 to run in a phone! ?????

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

Hey guys thanks for all the help, I got the images mounted and working and even managed to install a windows game.

That’s about all the good news… The bad news is that while installing games, the virtual cd either locks up or crashes randomly so it’s very hard to get it working. I got red alert installed and working, but none of the other add on games like aftermath or counterstrike will install successfully.

Any idea why virtual clone drive is so unstable?

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

I GOT IT!

I deleted the d: drive holding the drivers.img file…. I figured I won’t need that drive anymore (I hope) since I already installed the drivers on windows.

I mounted the new 2gb image on the d: drive and it boots into windows fine.

So now I have a new question… Does this mean I cannot mount and have more than maximum 2 hard drives at the same time?

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

I think I understand now… Basically those HDD images r like blank CDs… And I’m burning or injecting ISO into it so I can connect it to windows and run it. I am having trouble with the command to connect it to windows IMG so it recognizes it on boot… I tried reverse engineering the drivers.img expert command line u had on the windows.mgc, but to no success. Can u tell me what I need to write? I went with the 2gb hdd image, but the actual size of the image is less.

[ManfredVonRicthofen]

Bump

Hi can someone please help me? I haven’t made any progress since I successfully installed win95.

On a normal desktop, once you boot into windows you pop in a CD and start the installation of any game… Well how do I go about loading a CD image of any game so windows 95 sees it while running on dosbox?

The whole idea of not having a physical cd rom is what’s throwing me off…i can’t for the life of me figure out how to add any files, cd rom images, folders, etc, into win95 from the outside.

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