Multiple Installs

ryanglavin · 02-11-10, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

First game I played that had mods for it was SH1. Hawk's Silent Hunter Utilities...what a rush!

Don't bring back the memoriess!!! I still have SH1 somewhere, In my collection of classic video games... But i can't run it.

krashkart · 02-11-10, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ryanglavin

Don't bring back the memoriess!!! I still have SH1 somewhere, In my collection of classic video games... But i can't run it.

Hrm, try DosBox.

frau kaleun · 02-11-10, 10:49 PM

That's what I used originally to set up Discworld. Then when I got the new computer and went to look up all the info again, I saw there was a "new improved" program, D-Fend Reloaded. So I got that... but it runs the game in an 800x600 window which is teeny tiny on my monitor and I wasn't able to figure out how to make it run full screen or at least in a bigger window. The way that program works, it creates a config file every time you open the game which means you don't have a custom one with all that stuff set up in it, that loads every time. Which is what I had with DosBox.

I think there should be a way to do it, but I haven't taken the time to go back in and whatever it is it wasn't something that was obvious when I was clicking around in the interface. I think I even took a backup copy of the config I'd been using before and tried to make the new emulator use it but it didn't work.

I may just go back to DosBox if I decide to run that game in the future. It was much more complicated to set up, but once that was done, at least it did what I wanted it to do.

krashkart · 02-12-10, 10:00 AM

I find that I usually have to fiddle with the display settings a bit before I can really run a fullscreen game. I don't remember right offhand how I do it... I never take notes.

Luckily the newer D-Fend makes it pretty easy. BTW, IIRC the original DosBox project was abandoned and absorbed into D-Fend. It's all one package now.

frau kaleun · 02-12-10, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by krashkart

I find that I usually have to fiddle with the display settings a bit before I can really run a fullscreen game. I don't remember right offhand how I do it... I never take notes.

Luckily the newer D-Fend makes it pretty easy. BTW, IIRC the original DosBox project was abandoned and absorbed into D-Fend. It's all one package now.

Yeah, but I think I still have my DosBox download from when I set it up on the old computer. I just don't have the custom config file I used to run the game so it loaded and opened with one click on a shortcut. I could set it up again, I'd just have to remember what I did the last time.

02-12-10, 10:00 AM	#4
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	I find that I usually have to fiddle with the display settings a bit before I can really run a fullscreen game. I don't remember right offhand how I do it... I never take notes. Luckily the newer D-Fend makes it pretty easy. BTW, IIRC the original DosBox project was abandoned and absorbed into D-Fend. It's all one package now. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

02-11-10, 10:49 PM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	That's what I used originally to set up Discworld. Then when I got the new computer and went to look up all the info again, I saw there was a "new improved" program, D-Fend Reloaded. So I got that... but it runs the game in an 800x600 window which is teeny tiny on my monitor and I wasn't able to figure out how to make it run full screen or at least in a bigger window. The way that program works, it creates a config file every time you open the game which means you don't have a custom one with all that stuff set up in it, that loads every time. Which is what I had with DosBox. I think there should be a way to do it, but I haven't taken the time to go back in and whatever it is it wasn't something that was obvious when I was clicking around in the interface. I think I even took a backup copy of the config I'd been using before and tried to make the new emulator use it but it didn't work. I may just go back to DosBox if I decide to run that game in the future. It was much more complicated to set up, but once that was done, at least it did what I wanted it to do.