DOS Games Discussion

BillyGoat · Guest

i loaded magic carpet on dosbox and the keys to select your weopon are the number keys 1,2,3,4... etc you can press left/right mouse button at same time to get to a weapons menu... when ever i press a number key or left/right mouse together the game shuts down and goes right back into dos Sad

dosraider · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:09 am Post subject:

Don't press them together then..... it's a specific Magic Carpet related problem.

I don't have Magic Carpet installed right now but I thought you could change the keyinput somewhere and disable the 1,2,3,4... input.

Wally*Won_Kenobie · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:18 am Post subject:

Just press 7 and all will be well

Not real advise!

billygoat · Guest

so you suggest changing the number keys over to letter keys in dosbox keyboard setup?

dosraider · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject:

Try with the dosbox keymapper first.
Hit CTRL+F1 to access it when dosbox starts up.

Tough it can be a bitch on a laptop keyboard sometimes.
Now yeah, laptops sux anyway for gaming.

Oh yeah, if you're on such weird crappy Mac you must be fullscreen or keymapper won't work.

That or use in your shortcut
\%whatever%\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe -startmapper

Don't add the %whatever% .... Suspicious

Trial and error will be your destiny.
Shit-Eating Grin

wigglie · Guest

isn't that the copyright protection ?
spell change -> back to dos.

dosraider · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:39 am Post subject:

Nope, I have -(*had)- the original CD, and when it was installed I ran it from the harddisk, I simply copied the whole CD to HD , to avoid jerky spinup cddrive time, had no problems. So no copy protection.

Hmmmm, now that I think about it, soundsetup was SB I thought, if I remember swell. And run with 'carpet.exe' in the carpet dir, not the one in the base folder, or something ... whatever, try things out.

-(*had)- : One of my kids must have it now ..... damn kids.

billygoat · Guest

now that u mention that dosraider i think i remember playing the game when i was a kid and having the same problem and it was something you have to change with the soundsettings or something like that. i have the cd.

dosraider · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

Have look it up, correct settings are:

Sound source: Soundblaster
Music: Soundblaster 16 FM
Sound I/O: 220
Sound IRQ: 7
Sound DMA: 1

Accept: YES
Dosbox 0.72, freshly installed, nothing altered in dosbox conf.

BTW, if you have a joystick or gamepad you can select them by clicking on the right side of the setup screen (that big book, yes).