rfnagel on 12/12/2009 at 20:45
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
Hey, good to see you! I'm well, thanks. Not managing to do terribly much gaming these days, but I'm still keeping an eye on this place
I myself moved out into the woods back in 2005... have a look at the hillbilly homestead here -> (
http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Weeds_Backwoods_Homestead/Weeds_Backwoods_Homestead.htm) ... "you know you might be a Redneck when..." <LOL>!
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
It's pretty quiet around here these days, so seeing that many threads updated was a surprise :) Thanks for the URL updates. It's hard to believe it's been eight years since you were originally posting about all that!
Yeah, hard to believe how time flies. Good that I finally got off my butt and updated those download links :)
rfnagel on 19/6/2010 at 03:36
BTW, duuno if anyone running DOSBox had missed it or not:
The DOSBox authors released a new version of DOSBox back in May 2010, version 0.74. This new version, among other things, has quite a few tweaks to make things run a bit smoother. A lot of DOS games will run quite a bit smoother with this newer version, Terra Nova included :)
rfnagel on 13/7/2010 at 07:25
BTW, a little something that I discovered... haven't actually tried it yet though.
Seems that games that use DOS4GW for their memory manager will (usually) run a bit smoother under DOSBox if the game is edited to use DOS32A instead. I tried it with the original Command and Conquer, but not Terra Nova yet.
Anyhoo, read here for more info about embedding DOS32A in a game's executable that uses DOS4GW (in the case of Terra Nova, that would be "__FF.EXE") -> (
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/TOOLS%3ADOS32A) .
rfnagel on 13/7/2010 at 08:00
P.S. I tried DOS32A with Terra Nova, but unfortunately had random crashes while playing the game... so's I think that DOS32A is a no-go for TN to help improve performance.
jagguar20 on 15/9/2010 at 20:39
Quote Posted by rfnagel
First of all, a BIG shout out to Shadowcat! Long time, no type, how have you been?
Anyhow, I've recently started playing TN again. Using DOSBox on a P4 2.666ghz PC running Windows XP w/ SP2.
First of all, create the directory on your hard drive "C:\DOSGAMES".
Run DOSBox and then:
mount c c:\dosgames <ENTER>
mount d d:\ -t cdrom <ENTER>
Then log onto your CDROM drive:
d: <ENTER>
Install TN in the usual manner that you would from native DOS (not via the CD's "autorun"):
install <ENTER>
This will create a virtual drive "C", and install TN to the virtual drive's "C:\TNOVA" directory. Viewed in Windows Explorer, you'll then find the game's files in the "C:\DOSGAMES\TNOVA" directory on your hard drive (when DOSBox isn't running).
After installation, and from then on, you will:
mount c c:\dosgames
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
c: <ENTER>
cd\tnova <ENTER>
TN <ENTER>
.
This worked like a charm on DosBox 0.74. Runs flawlessly.
This is the first time I play this game since I was 6 (And I could never get past the training mission due to my PC having no sound card and me knowing no english at all).
rfnagel on 27/11/2010 at 10:03
A little update on running Terra Nova under DOSBox (all versions):
Seems that under DOSBox the game's stereo digital sound effects are flipped... what you see happening on the left side of the screen you'll actually hear in your right speaker, and vice-versa.
In Terra Nova's configuration menu/screen there is an option for "Swap Stereo" (or something like that, I forget the actual wording offhand). If you enable this "Swap Stereo" option, the digital sound effects within the game are correct. BUT, the audio in the game's cutscene movies is still reversed.
I mean, no biggie, but it looks (or "sounds") rather screwball when watching the game's cutscenes LOL!
Anyhoo, community member "ripsaw8080" over at Vogons created a patch for Terra Nova's "SB16.DIG" digital audio driver that corrects this problem when running the game under DOSBox, without the need for setting the game's configuration for "Swap Stereo" (which suffers from the cutscene problem as outlined above).
This thread -> (
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=15800)
This file -> (
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/download.php?id=8345) (swapfix.zip - Modifies SB16.DIG to prevent reversed stereo channels in DOSBox).
From "ripsaw8080" within that message thread:
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To modify the driver, run the attached program inside DOSBox in a folder where SB16.DIG is located (preferably an installed copy). The driver file has several variations, so the program searches for the correct offset to modify.
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Anyways, the patch works like a champ! :)
Hanssen on 11/11/2011 at 09:52
I wanted to install DosBox on my MacOS 10.3.x, and then found out that they re not compatible. That's sad.
