PCem

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.

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.

@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...

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 prompt on Win...

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)

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

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 can run i...

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".

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...

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 quality t...

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)

Yes, that should do it.

Yes, and don't forget to install Rain 2.0. That should make idle windows not hog the CPU like that.

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 ...

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 option. The same ha...

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 ...

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

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

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 actually ...

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 ...

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...

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.

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

Correct. VirtualBox supports different disk formats that support dynamic size allocation, including VHD and VDI

@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...

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 under a Cor...

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...

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.

How to include all dll's in exe? Just locate them in msys2 and copy them into your final dist folder. They are: libexpat-1.dll libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll libjpeg-8.dll liblzma-5.dll libopenal-1.dll libpng16-16.dll libstdc++-6.dll libtiff-5.dll libwinpthread-1.dll SDL2.dll wxbase30u_gcc_custom.dll wxbase30u...

Not something that really answers your question but.. why do you want to use AudioPCI under plain DOS? Very few, programs might support it explicitly, and for the rest, you would need to use soundblaster emulation, so what's the point? Also, for the programs that support it, I am guessing that they ...