Re: Some problems with version 1.3.3

[Julius Schwartzenberg <julius@zgod.cjb.net>]

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> Just to make sure, I downloaded keen4 from:
> ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/share/4keen.zip
> 
> unzip, start dosemu, run install.exe, run keen4e, fine, no delay.
Yep, I just tried it with this version, same problem.

>> Have you ever looked at the VGA emulation in Dosbox btw? It seems to 
>> handle some stuff (such as Commander Keen) better. I don't know what 
>> possibilities there are when it comes to sharing code between Dosbox 
>> and Dosemu though. I prefer Dosemu myself because it runs faster, but 
>> there also seem to be some nice developments on the Dosbox side.
> 
> 
> Yes I have looked at the VGA emulation in Dosbox, and the Dosbox 
> developers have looked at the VGA emulation in DOSEMU. It makes for a 
> good comparison when game xxx does not work in DOSEMU but works in 
> DOSBOX, and a few fixes were made that way.
> 
> Directly sharing code is not so easy, partly because dosbox uses C++ 
> (although it's C++ with a lot of C, not using STL for instance) and we 
> use plain C.
> 
> Just recently I went through the licenses in the dosemu-freedos package 
> and found that shsucdx.exe is unclear. That in combination with the a 
> report that you could not obtain the (possibly LFN) volume label from an 
> lredir'ed cdrom directory was a god incentive for me to port the mscdex 
> code from dosbox. I even noticed a few errors in the dosbox code, will 
> report them back when I have the time.

Cool that stuff is indeed shared between Dosemu and Dosbox :)
Commander Keen seemed to run much smoother with the VGA emulation in 
Dosbox, which is why I asked about this.

>> PS: While typing this mail, (about 15-20 minutes after I launched 
>> Keen) it indeed seems to get further.
> 
> where does it get stuck? The init screen?
After the init screen. As Stas said, it doesn't really get stuck, it's 
just really slow, taking ~20 minutes before the title screen shows 
(having pressed a button).

Thanks,
Julius