System Shock

System Shock

[Adrian Abraham]

I've been trying to get System Shock running under dosemu, but with no 
luck. When I try to run it, I get a black screen, then get dumped back to 
the prompt with a Salt the Fries error, "Could not find palette."

I've tried it both in X and at the console, with _console and _graphics 
enabled, with the same result.

What do I need to do to get it working?

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			-Adrian Abraham (aabraham@cc.gatech.edu)
                         CS1371 Teaching Assistant

Re: System Shock

[Ryan Underwood]

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On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:31:43PM -0500, Adrian Abraham wrote:
> I've been trying to get System Shock running under dosemu, but with no 
> luck. When I try to run it, I get a black screen, then get dumped back to 
> the prompt with a Salt the Fries error, "Could not find palette."
> 
> I've tried it both in X and at the console, with _console and _graphics 
> enabled, with the same result.
> 
> What do I need to do to get it working?

A debug log would help (run with -D+a -o /tmp/debug.log) along with
mentioning your dosemu and kernel version, and system configuration.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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Re: System Shock

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Ryan Underwood wrote:
>> I've been trying to get System Shock running under dosemu, but with 
>> no luck.
> A debug log would help (run with -D+a -o /tmp/debug.log)
-D9+a log can be very big, I think it
would be an overkill to post it here
in order to only find out the dosemu
version in use.
System Shock was tested and works with
the recent dosemus (not with an older
ones of course), so unless the version
is known, there is not too much of a help
to provide.

Re: System Shock

[Adrian Abraham]

> -D9+a log can be very big, I think it
> would be an overkill to post it here
> in order to only find out the dosemu
> version in use.

Yesterday, I tried to post the log (bzip2'd, even). It never showed up, so 
I guess the list just trashed it.

Linux 2.4.22, Gentoo patches, dosemu 1.1.99.1, X 4.3.0, ATI Mobility.

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			-Adrian Abraham (aabraham@cc.gatech.edu)
                         CS1371 Teaching Assistant

Re: System Shock

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Adrian Abraham wrote:
> Linux 2.4.22, Gentoo patches, dosemu 1.1.99.1
Gentoo guys were always keen to provide
an up-to-date dosemu version, but unfortunately
it is known to have some problems because
of the optimisation they use (in general
compiling dosemu with more than -O2 gives
problems).
So it would be nice if you try a fresh
1.1.99.1, or even 1.1.3/CVS and let us
know how it works. If it works, then you'll
have to contact gentoo' support instead.
Because System Shock works perfectly here
on both 1.1.3 and 1.1.99.1.

Re: System Shock

[Adrian Abraham]

> So it would be nice if you try a fresh
> 1.1.99.1, or even 1.1.3/CVS and let us
> know how it works.

I compiled both 1.1.99.1 and 1.1.5, with the same error from each. I 
didn't touch the freedos installation, or the files in my home directory.

For anyone who's interested, the log (from 1.1.99.1) is at 
shadowspire.net/debug.log.bz2

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			-Adrian Abraham (aabraham@cc.gatech.edu)
                         CS1371 Teaching Assistant

Re: System Shock

[Adrian Abraham]

Well, I was poking around a SS faq, and found something mentioning that a 
palette error can be caused by bad sound settings. I turned sound off, and 
it runs fine. After fiddling with the sound settings, it runs now with 
sound effects, and I'll watch the sound thread for getting my midi working.

Thanks to those who tried.

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			-Adrian Abraham (aabraham@cc.gatech.edu)
                         CS1371 Teaching Assistant