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[MaskingTape]

If you are looking for some games that you could try with this take a look at www.the-underdogs.org

That's a page with a lot of abandon ware games. Most being old dos games.


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[chevi]

I recommend you too to try Sky Roads, amazingly addictive game    

[XPort]

uberjim - why don't you put the "config -readconf" command in mystuff.bat and then map some XBox controller buttons to CTRL, ALT, W, BACKSPACE, F12, F11, etc.  When the game starts up you'll be able to simulate keypresses like CTRL-ALT-W by pressing and holding the 3 mapped XBox controller buttons.

[chevi]

I´ve had an idea, perhaps if a frontend can´t be made for this emulator we could use Norton Commander as frontend, and old msdos program very easy to use, just mapping the arrow keys and the enter keys to the controller and making dosbox to exec norton commander at startup......time to look for NC in my 3 1/2 floppys    

[UberJim]

Here is my "MYSTUFF.BAT":

CODE

config -writeconf c:skyroads.cfg config -readconf c:skyroads.cfg skyroads.exe

I launch the program, and it boots Skyroads.  I would expect a file called "skyroads.cfg" to be in the games folder, but it isn't.  I have tried having it save in other places too with no success.  Anyone know what the problem is?  I need it to create a config file before I can edit it.

[XPort]

The file name you specify for the "config" command are XBox relative.  So those CFG files you created are now located on your XBox C drive.

[UberJim]

QUOTE (XPort @ Sep 8 2003, 11:52 AM)

The file name you specify for the "config" command are XBox relative.  So those CFG files you created are now located on your XBox C drive.

You're right thanks.  I did try to put it other places without success.  I should be able to figure it out now that I have it writing a config file though.

[UberJim]

Well I figured it out, I can now pick Skyroads from my EvoX menu and it boots straight to the game with the right frameskip and controls and what not.  I have another question now though.  Is there a command that I can use in "MYSTUFF.BAT" that will exit to the dash?  With that I could exit the game as normal and it would return me to the dashboard.  This isn't really that important as I could just IGR to get back to the dash, but it would still be nice.

[XPort]

"exit"

That will exit out of the emulator, and theoretically it should return to the dashboard although I have not tested that on a retail XBox.

[UberJim]

QUOTE (XPort @ Sep 8 2003, 01:34 PM)

"exit" That will exit out of the emulator, and theoretically it should return to the dashboard although I have not tested that on a retail XBox.

That worked, thanks again.

[P to the L]

This is great !  However, it will be REALLY great when X-Com will be able to run on it !  MmmmMMmmmm X-Com..... *drool*

[chevi]

I´ve managed to use Commander Norton as frontend for the emu

First uploaded the emu to Xbox and put cn.exe in games dir and some games too each in their own dir
Then make a mystuff.bat with notepad with something like
config -writeconf e:emulatorsdosbox_v2cn.cfg
c:nc.exe

and upload it to games dir
exec dosbox and reset console
edit mystuff.bat and change writeconfig for readconfig and edit cn.cfg with you keys, I use
xbox_1_BUTTON_A=32
xbox_1_BUTTON_B=306
xbox_1_BUTTON_X=308
xbox_1_BUTTON_Y=13
xbox_1_BUTTON_BLACK=27
xbox_1_BUTTON_WHITE=121
xbox_1_BUTTON_LTRIG=292
xbox_1_BUTTON_RTRIG=293
xbox_1_BUTTON_START=0
xbox_1_BUTTON_BACK=290
xbox_1_BUTTON_LTHUMB=288
xbox_1_BUTTON_RTHUMB=289
xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_UP=273
xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_DOWN=274
xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_LEFT=276
xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_RIGHT=275

then upload cn.cfg and mystuff.bat and now you can use dosbox without keyboard, navigating trough dirs with arrows ans using Y as return, white as escape, trigers as f11, f12, x as alt, b as ctrl, a as space and thumbs as f7,f8

I suppose using cn before games kills some memory but I use cn 2.0 veryy old

[UberJim]

I thought it would be nifty if we could have a collection cfg file changes for playing games smoothly with just the controller.  I'll start it off with Skyroads:

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xbox_1_BUTTON_A=32 xbox_1_BUTTON_B=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_X=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_Y=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_BLACK=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_WHITE=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_LTRIG=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_RTRIG=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_START=13 xbox_1_BUTTON_BACK=27 xbox_1_BUTTON_LTHUMB=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_RTHUMB=0 xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_UP=273 xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_DOWN=274 xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_LEFT=276 xbox_1_BUTTON_DPAD_RIGHT=275 xbox_screen_u=18 xbox_screen_l=29 xbox_screen_b=-36 xbox_screen_r=-59 frameskip=1 cycles=3578

With these changes Skyroads runs great on the Xbox with just the controller.  The screen changes are perfect for my TV but that might be different for others.  With this controller setup A is space which makes the ship jump, start is enter, back is escape, and the dpad is used for the arrow keys.

So if you got any games working great with just the controller post the config changes so it will be easier for the next person.

This post has been edited by UberJim: Sep 8 2003, 07:10 PM

[pcween]

skyroads (full version & xmas special full version) does not run very well on dosxbox v2. sound is choppy and game running slowly. can anyone confirm this?

[UberJim]

QUOTE (pcween @ Sep 8 2003, 04:05 PM)

skyroads (full version & xmas special full version) does not run very well on dosxbox v2. sound is choppy and game running slowly. can anyone confirm this?

This kind of post makes me pretty mad.  Read post in the topic, then read the included text files with the dosxbox release.

This post has been edited by UberJim: Sep 8 2003, 08:11 PM