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by JosepMa
Wed 04 Mar, 2020 9:59 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Bitbucket deleting all Mercurial repositories on June 1, 2020?
Replies: 21
Views: 18934

Re: Bitbucket deleting all Mercurial repositories on June 1, 2020?

JIRA is an issue tracker software, not a source repository software.
by JosepMa
Sun 06 Oct, 2019 6:14 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: No CD Audio in v15
Replies: 5
Views: 10361

Re: No CD Audio in v15

You need to change the mixer values on DOS or on the emulated Windows, not on your host Windows system. When I implemented the new mixers for the soundblasters, I followed the programming guide that suggested that the default for the CD audio was silence (which in this context means -60dBs, so not c...
by JosepMa
Thu 11 Jul, 2019 8:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: [BUG] International keyboard layouts
Replies: 8
Views: 10303

Re: [BUG] International keyboard layouts

I can only confirm your findings (at least about ami 386 and xi8088)

It's clear that the keyboard emulation that was added on that commit that we identified, is making these systems use an incorrect key mapping.
by JosepMa
Thu 11 Jul, 2019 7:55 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)
Replies: 84
Views: 117026

Re: [Feb 2018 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)

Official pcem is not compiled with MSYS2. it is compiled with the other mingw and not using the exact same versions of the dependencies.
You need to use the dlls that are in msys2.
by JosepMa
Wed 03 Jul, 2019 7:57 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)
Replies: 84
Views: 117026

Re: [Feb 2018 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)

@omarsis81: more information is needed to know what are you doing wrong. Given that not even hg worked for you, maybe we should first verify that the environment is correctly installed. Anyway, you don't need to use hg inside msys2. you can still use TortoiseHG or whatever windows tool that you alre...
by JosepMa
Tue 25 Jun, 2019 10:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I don't think KEYB SP is working right...
Replies: 24
Views: 23001

Re: I don't think KEYB SP is working right...

I am unsure why you have the problem on MS-DOS, since it works here, but since I had the problem in WinMe, I tried recompiling the sources and located the commit 1432 "Add ability to change AT keyboard scancode and disable translation. Fixes keyboard in Solaris 8." to cause the command pro...
by JosepMa
Mon 24 Jun, 2019 5:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I don't think KEYB SP is working right...
Replies: 24
Views: 23001

Re: I don't think KEYB SP is working right...

MS DOS 6.22 -> Fine
Command prompt on Windows 98 -> Fine
PCem V15 Command prompt on Windows Me -> Error as in ruben's post.
PCem V14 Command prompt on Windows Me -> Works ( same disk image and config as above)
by JosepMa
Wed 05 Jun, 2019 6:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I don't think KEYB SP is working right...
Replies: 24
Views: 23001

Re: I don't think KEYB SP is working right...

MS-DOS 6.22 here and all fine ( normal, shift and alt+gr characters)

config.sys:
COUNTRY=034,,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)

autoexec.bat
MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((850) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)
MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=850

KEYB SP,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
by JosepMa
Thu 23 May, 2019 6:20 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Compile error - files missing
Replies: 5
Views: 8220

Re: Compile error - files missing

Since you use MSYS2, you should be building it like this (as a clean install): make clean autoreconf -i ./configure --enable-networking --enable-release-build make -j cp src/pcem.exe dist (That last "cp" line is because I've created a dist subfolder where I have all the .dlls and roms so I...
by JosepMa
Wed 22 May, 2019 9:32 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Can we have a PCem BIOS datfile?
Replies: 10
Views: 14931

Re: Can we have a PCem BIOS datfile?

I think I saw some posts on which sarah is a bit against this because it would somehow promote the research of roms to "have them all".
by JosepMa
Mon 06 May, 2019 8:55 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: v15 compatibility & bug list (WIP)
Replies: 72
Views: 96321

Re: v15 compatibility & bug list (WIP)

Ok, I can confirm too that the graphic glitches are gone now. On a side question... Is there a known reason why the starting video uses so much cpu? (in v14 too). One strange thing that I saw is that on the statistics (misc->machine), it shows also near 100% CPU on the Voodoo part, even though all t...
by JosepMa
Thu 02 May, 2019 7:18 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: v15 compatibility & bug list (WIP)
Replies: 72
Views: 96321

Re: v15 compatibility & bug list (WIP)

Hello. I found a regression with Fifa 98 Road to world cup. (Looks fine in v14) The lower side of the scren has graphic paint errors, which are "fixed" when moving the mouse over there (That's why the two lower buttons are correctly drawn. I moved the mouse there). (note: I reduced the jpg...
by JosepMa
Tue 16 Apr, 2019 7:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Video BIOS messages not showing up on startup before BIOS POST screen
Replies: 9
Views: 14420

Re: Video BIOS messages not showing up on startup before BIOS POST screen

With the released version of v14, AMI winbios and Trident TVGA, I see the trident message during two seconds, so it seems there's something more in your setup that could be causing this misbehaviour. (video speed is set to default)
by JosepMa
Thu 21 Feb, 2019 7:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pentium MMX 200 emulation problem
Replies: 5
Views: 7388

Re: Pentium MMX 200 emulation problem

Yes, that should do it.
by JosepMa
Wed 20 Feb, 2019 8:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pentium MMX 200 emulation problem
Replies: 5
Views: 7388

Re: Pentium MMX 200 emulation problem

Yes, and don't forget to install Rain 2.0. That should make idle windows not hog the CPU like that.
by JosepMa
Mon 10 Dec, 2018 7:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem is still open (background process)
Replies: 7
Views: 9157

Re: PCem is still open (background process)

My bad.. I misunderstood you. I thought you mean you closed the command console, not PCem. I tried it again and closing PCem ends the pcem process for me. I am using a self compiled version. I just tried as well with the Official v14 and what I immediately see is that my build makes the script wait ...
by JosepMa
Sun 09 Dec, 2018 7:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem is still open (background process)
Replies: 7
Views: 9157

Re: PCem is still open (background process)

If you want it to run it from the same process of the window where you lauch it, use "call" instead of "start" (or even simply pcem, without any extra command before). Edit: Ok, forget about that comment. It still does not do what you want, but I'm not sure if you really have an...
by JosepMa
Tue 13 Nov, 2018 9:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem crashes when running AWEUTIL /EM
Replies: 4
Views: 6430

Re: PCem crashes when running AWEUTIL /EM

I see in that trace that the midi is going out to alsa via uart emulation. (note: I am using Windows). I am not sure what is sending/receiving that causes the crash on PCem, but probably we would need to intercept something in there with the AWE so that it does not assume that the signal has to end ...
by JosepMa
Mon 12 Nov, 2018 7:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem crashes when running AWEUTIL /EM
Replies: 4
Views: 6430

Re: PCem crashes when running AWEUTIL /EM

Mmm. I am currently testing this and, while it does report an error ( ERR014: Feedback path error), it does not crash.

I haven't worked on the emulation for some time, so I cannot say if I could fix it, but I might look at what it does to report that error.
My version is AWEUTIL 1.32
by JosepMa
Sat 03 Nov, 2018 5:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Ctrl-Alt-PageDown not working
Replies: 7
Views: 7616

Re: Ctrl-Alt-PageDown not working

I don't think I fully understand your problem with the keyboard keys.
But if you have, the problem that you report on v12 only happens with Direct3D. Switch to OpenGL and you'll no longer have that problem
by JosepMa
Fri 26 Oct, 2018 2:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem and New Intel Laptop CPUs
Replies: 2
Views: 4816

Re: PCem and New Intel Laptop CPUs

Other than "That's on the top end of the current performance for computers", what kind of answer do you expect? (servers aside, where there are even 16core 32thread processors) Myself I am running on a i7 6700 3.4Ghz (4cores 8 threads) and can emulate Pentium MMX 200, AWE32 and voodoo 2 (I...
by JosepMa
Mon 01 Oct, 2018 5:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 open sourced
Replies: 4
Views: 6398

MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 open sourced

Hello. I've just read that Microsoft has published the sources and binaries for MS-DOS versions 1.25 and 2.0. https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/ It looks like they had published them already some years ago, but opted to publish them again on github for a greater exposure and reference. While they ...
by JosepMa
Wed 12 Sep, 2018 7:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem v14 not honoring default audio device in Windows 10
Replies: 2
Views: 4370

Re: PCem v14 not honoring default audio device in Windows 10

PCEm does honor the default device, but only at startup time. Currently it does not react to changing the default output. I haven't looked into this, but I am assuming that it's because of the kind of audio API that it uses. I might have a look someday how easy or complicate it would be to use porta...
by JosepMa
Sun 05 Aug, 2018 9:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: "Disk I/O Error" when switching machines
Replies: 3
Views: 5632

Re: "Disk I/O Error" when switching machines

What might happen is that either the bock size configuration when adding the disk to PCem, or the BIOS detected parameters do not match with those used when the disk was created.
Please, check the values in the PCem disk setup from the working machine and replicate those to the other machines.
by JosepMa
Fri 27 Jul, 2018 5:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: how to enable Log in PCem ?
Replies: 3
Views: 5763

Re: how to enable Log in PCem ?

Mmm.... indeed, seems the log is completely disabled from release builds :

Code: Select all

void pclog(const char *format, ...)
{
#ifndef RELEASE_BUILD
        char buf[1024];
    [...]
#endif
}
by JosepMa
Wed 27 Jun, 2018 8:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VHD support
Replies: 72
Views: 74767

Re: VHD support

Correct. VirtualBox supports different disk formats that support dynamic size allocation, including VHD and VDI
by JosepMa
Wed 27 Jun, 2018 7:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: VHD support
Replies: 72
Views: 74767

Re: VHD support

@xXLuckyXx : The answer is actually in that screenshot. 20GB disk (as seen by Windows 98 in PCem), sizing around 250MB on physical disk. Shermanp did already implement fixed-size VHD support (which is almost a raw image with some headers), but he is currently implementing, with success, dynamic-size...
by JosepMa
Fri 22 Jun, 2018 9:05 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: 3DFX compatibility list
Replies: 99
Views: 157867

Re: 3DFX compatibility list

Hey, I didn't see it mentioned (other than a old failure of the DOS version), but I've successfully been playing FIFA 98 under PCem, Windows 98, and 3dFX with SLI. This is the one that had the "Blur - Song 2" theme on startup. I use a Pentum MMX 166 configuration with the AWARD 430VX ROM u...
by JosepMa
Thu 17 May, 2018 6:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Strange shader manager problem
Replies: 11
Views: 13859

Re: Strange shader manager problem

I wonder if all is caused by the use of wx 3.1 in Sarah's build (at least it was 3.1 on previous releases. now it's hard to tell since it's statically linked). The stable version is still 3.0, although the development has gone on for some time. It might even be some small incompatibility between tho...
by JosepMa
Sun 29 Apr, 2018 8:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: MacOS X
Replies: 18
Views: 23549

Re: MacOS X

Ok. It seems that the wxwidgets part is not properly prepared for MacOS for autoreconf to work, so ok, keep the original copy of configure.