Bill, Albrecht is talking about DOSBox SVN-Daum. Are you running DOSBox SVN-Daum or the original DOSBox, Bill? I think I remember reading on the internet that their configuration files are different in places and potentially incompatible. Tim Wegner is running DOSBox SVN-Daum under Windows 10. See below. Albrecht, Please see Tim's [Fractint] 1/25/2018 [Fractint] post about the configuration file for DOSBox Daum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just found a voluminous DOSBox SVN-Daum .conf file! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The bottom of the last post on this page by "waltc": https://www.gog.com/forum/stonekeep/full_screen_mode includes a link to a DOSBox SVN-Daum .conf file that has a .jpg extension with the instructions "Here's my conf file...(just remove the .jpg to view)" -- which did not work for me. I discovered that some browsers (e.g.: Firefox) refuse to display this text file, so once I successfully viewed it with MS IE, I put it on my server with a .txt extension if you want to look at it. It appears to contain a tremendous number of options to get many specific DOS games (and the hardware they require) running. Fractint's needs are comparatively simple -- hi res graphics -- and possibly a sound card, so we won't need *everything* that "waltc" has in their .conf file. Here's that DOSBox SVN-Daum .conf file: http://tinyurl.com/DOSBox-SVN-Daum-conf-file or: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/DOSBox_SVN-Daum/_List_of_commands_in_a_DOSBo... "waltc" further says: ---------------------------- I'd strongly advise you to use this version of Dosbox: http://ykhwong.xo.st/ It is Dosbox-svn-daum and it is much better than the anemic version of dosbox Gog [Great Old Games -Hal] ships, imo. This version of Dosbox svn-daum (published Jan 27 2014) includes a 64-bit version of dosbox & allows you to use any of a wide variety of pixel shaders...Highly recommended... I run the game [StoneKeep, I think] @ 1920x1200 with a D3d pixel shader that cleans up the graphics significantly...but there's only so much that's possible with this old game, as you note...;)...I found that the 64-bit version of dosbox pretty much doubles the animation and game frame rates and of course allows the game to use more ram and resources than the 32-bit version of dosbox.exe. ---------------------------- I'm guessing that Fractint doesn't use pixel shaders, so this particular concern may not apply to Fractint -- just to live action games. Another user, "iancurtis", on that page listed their graphics settings. Here they are: ------------------------------ My graphic settings: (dont know which shader to use there for best quality) fullscreen=false fulldouble=false fullresolution=desktop windowresolution=1920x1200 output=direct3d autolock=true sensitivity=100 waitonerror=true priority=higher,normal mapperfile=mapper-SVN-Daum.map pixelshader= usescancodes=false overscan=0 ------------------------------ I believe that some of these commands are likely to be the same as in "vanilla" (non-SVN-Daum) DOSBox, so the DOSBox Wiki may will give useful info about these commands for use in DOSBox SVN-Daum: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/ Their discussion of the vanilla DOSBox .conf file is here: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf I also found a page that discusses: "Is there a way to make a Windows shortcut that will run a dos program through DosBox automatically, without the need to open DosBox mount a drive etc. manually?" http://tinyurl.com/Windows-shortcut-2run-Fractint or: https://superuser.com/questions/195755/windows-shortcut-that-runs-through-do... Doing this allows just a double click on the shortcut icon to set up and run Fractint in DOSBox SVN-Daum. Tim Wegner posted: -------------------------------------------------- I have SVN Daum working fine under Windows 10. The *.conf file has a different name for the Daum version than for the regular DOSBox. Mine is: C:\Users\twegner\AppData\Local\DOSBox\SVN-Daum.conf The fractint-specific part of the conf file is at the bottom: [autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here. mount c c:\fractint c: fractint My fractint setup is in c:\fractint under windows 10. So under DOS_Box the fractint directory is c:\, and my autoexec.bat runs fractint (that's really optional). You will need to do something more to give DOSBox access to your fractal files directory. ----------------------------------------------------- Please note Tim's: "You will need to do something more to give DOSBox access to your fractal files directory." Here's a wild guess: Possibly another Mount command pointing to your fractal files directory?... Tim, Do you know if my guess is right? <---<< <---<< I'm getting interested in trying to get Fractint running in DOSBox SVN-Daum... I got a Windows copy of DOSBox SVN-Daum (Jan. 25. 2015 ver.) from: http://ykhwong.xo.st/ > Download > DOSBox SVN builds - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Bill Jemison Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 5:23 PM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] SDL Version Albrecht - I will email you myconfig file for DOSBox, which works on my W10 64bit system. Bill Jemison Audio Fractals <https://sites.google.com/site/audiofractals/home> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Albrecht Niekamp <Multifrac@t-online.de> wrote:
My system is Win10_64bit. Due to fundamental problems I have given up using the SDL Version, these are not caused by the MFR Software. Now trying to use DosBox SVN Daum, installed inspite a warning on the net. Problem: Fractint completely fails : on all searches "nofiles" error, - images, frms, pars and so on also Not caused by "autoexecute" ! All known versions of sstools tested, inside or outside the Fractint folder, manual reso calling does not help. Maybe it´s a problem of user rights or lack of 16bit support after latest "upgrade". Any help welcome, Albrecht
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