Re: Game problem Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

Hello.

Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> After setting up doom2 to "no sound", it works.
You haven't applied the necessary
patches from here:
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas/
so what is to expect.

> Supaplex uses a kind of "split screen", the lower part contains time
> and other status info, the upper part is a 2D scrolling screen.
> The problem is that under xdosemu, the lower part is scrolling, too
> where it shouldn't.
Vga emulation is far from perfection,
use dosemu in a console mode instead
to get the proper graphics.

> Pinball Fantasies does not start, I do not know why, maybe because of 
> the network drive?
Unlikely.

> Serf City (Settlers I) starts but its mouse handling is too fast(?):
> the mouse is too sensitive.
Yes, there is something weird with the
mouse driver of dosemu. Under console
you can use an external mouse driver
however. Also try fiddling with emumouse.com.

>> 2. in xterm type "xset fp rehash" to make
>> your X server to search for the new fonts.  
>  But I did neither this not "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs reload".
>  Today morning I switched on the machine, the font is working, as I 
>  expected.
But you asked for the way of doing that
without restarting an X server, didn't
you? Hmm...