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#Daggerfall dosbox config install
#Daggerfall dosbox config full
#Daggerfall dosbox config license
#Daggerfall dosbox config download

Open up Notepad (or any other ASCII editor) and type the following (make sure you do the replacing with your own paths) : You can to this by using the button on the top-right corner or by pressing CTRL+F9. You may try Test Digital and Test MIDI if you feel like it.Ĭlose DOSBox. Leave the HMI Sound Operating System Setup Utility by selecting OK from the main menu. Pick Sound Blaster 16/AWE 32, and set the port to 220, the DMA to 1 and the IRQ to 7. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, enter this section.

#Daggerfall dosbox config install

You should be able to install the program on your own, just pick "Install the game on your hard drive", "Change the install size", select the biggest size, accept, accept the default folder and let the program do its job.ĭOSBox emulates a bunch of common sound cards.

#Daggerfall dosbox config license

When the License Agreement comes up, "lock" the mouse within DOSBox by clicking on the window (you can use CTRL+F10 to "unlock" the mouse). Luckily, the CD contains a program named install.exe which means DOSBox can run this. If you type something that isn't a command, the OS searches the current directory and tries to find a program named (minus the extension, which is the text after the dot - e.g.exe -) after what you've entered. This isn't one of DOS' internal commands. cycles=max (this maximizes the use of your CPU - Daggerfall is quite power-hungry in terms of CPU time)Īutoexec (that one is at the end of the file)Īdd the following lines and replace C:\DDRIVE by the path leading to your own folder (see 2 - Create a folder to use as DOSBox's virtual hard drive) :

- core=dynamic (the fastest CPU emulation).

- scaler=advinterp2x (this applies a nice scaler that'll make edges look a bit better - omgzor teh graphix lol!!!1!z -, leave this to none if your machine is a bit slow/old).

priority=highest,pause (this forces your OS to give DOSBox more CPU time when you're playing and it pauses your game when you alt-tab out) output=ddraw (this tells DOSBox to use Microsoft DirectDraw as its output API, if you're under Linux, you might want to use output=opengl instead - whatever you do, don't leave this to output=surface as it's very slow) fulldouble=true (this will allow double buffering in fullscreen mode)

- fullscreen=false (I like to leave this setting to false as you can switch to fullscreen mode by pressing ALT+ENTER when DOSBox is running).

Since you're probably eager to start playing, here's a list of things you need to edit (if a parameter isn't listed here, just leave it as it is): Just make sure you don't use incorrect values (read the lines that begins with #, these are comments that aren't interpreted as settings by the program at run-time). just click on : Start -> Programs -> DOSBox-0.70 -> nf).Įditing nf is fairly straightforward. The Windows version of DOSBox will put a shortcut to this file in your start menu (i.e. You'll want to open "nf" in an ASCII editor (e.g. I like to use C:\DDRIVE (I guess /$HOME/DDRIVE would be good if you've got a Linux box) as it's simple, short and easy to remember.

#Daggerfall dosbox config full

Keep in mind that a full install of Daggerfall requires ~500 Mb.

You can create this folder anywhere on your machine.

#Daggerfall dosbox config download

Running Daggerfall under DOSBox for imbeciles :ġ - Download and install the latest version of DOSBoxĢ - Create a folder to use as DOSBox's virtual hard drive Feel free to reply and/or PM me additional questions you might have.

Here's a guide I thought some of you might want (sorry if it's completely useless).