Hi everyone.. can help me and others users with a list of best sites for iDOS games? Thank you for any reply.. Have a nice day and happy halloween
hey guys, can you tell me how to delete the zip files from the dir on DOS or from the iDOS inside iTunes? thanks!
In the file sharing section you can highlight the item and press the delete key on your keyboard. In iDos from within the correct directory (the one the item is in) just type "del (file to be deleted)". For example: del dizzy3.zip
I've successfully created saves in most of the games I've played. Especially the Space Quest series. Talk about the most difficult point and click adventure ever... (Quite possibly the only point and click adventure to toss in half a gazillion ways to kill your character.) Save and restore is an integral part of the SQ games. They would be unplayable without it.
Actually, the Frotz app doesn't allow you to add games other than the ones that come packed in, last I checked. So using iDos does help for games like HHGG. Edit: And it appears I am wrong. Looks like you can but have to use a FTP client.
No problem, somebody else told me earlier. The only thing I've actually been able to help anybody with in here. xD
Step by step guides: Install & play Epic Pinball Android table: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=1380796&postcount=661 Install & play Discworld: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=1386952&postcount=1117 W3.1, W95 http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=1383220&postcount=899
I see someone already posted some explanations. But here's an additional walkthrough in a nutshell: * Download a game from an abandonware site to your computer. Older, simpler games have a better chance of running easily. * You will need the game to be in a zip file. If your comp automatically unzips it you will have to compress it back to .zip. Rename the file to a short abbreviation. For instance if your file is kingsquest1.zip, I suggest renaming it kq1.zip. * Open iTunes and highlight your idevice, then apps and scroll down to filesharing and highlight idos. Drag your zip files to the idos field. If your idevice is jailbroken this part of the process is probably different. * Run idos on your idevice. Type the following at the prompt C:\>md kq1 C:\>copy kq1.zip \kq1 C:\>cd kq1 C:\>kq1\unzip kq1.zip C:\>kq1\dir/p This will bring up a list of all the files in the games directory. You will look for exe files such as install.exe, or run.exe, or Sierra.exe. You may have to install first and sort out the sound options. No sound always makes things easier but you can usually get sound to work too. C:\>kq1\sierra And enjoy. Troubleshooting: -Ctrl F11/F12 toggles the cycles up and down. The default is 3000 but most older games run best at around 2000. Switching too rapidly can crash things. -Ctrl F7/F8 toggles frame skip. -Alt F12 toggles a "turbo mode" but I haven't had stellar results with this yet. -If a game requires a cd drive input C:\>mount d ~/ -t cdrom -For more help input C:\>intro C:\>help/all
Does anybody have recommended dosbox.conf settings to get games running really fast? Also, does turning off sound (significantly) increase speed?
From what I can tell, if the game is using pc speaker for sound, it runs fine. Of course, pc speaker sound is crap, but HEY WE WERE HAPPY DAMN IT! hehe Other sound emulations are more processor heavy, Adlib (music only), Soundblaster, Soundblaster Pro, etc, each taking more processing. Your mileage may vary. Good luck! Currently I'm running this file for ones that use the dos4gw type memory manager: [dosbox] [sblaster] #sbtype=none [render] frameskip=0 [cpu] core=normal cycles=3000 cycleup=500 cycledown=20 [mixer] #rate=22050 #blocksize=8192 prebuffer=100 [midi] mpu401=none mididevice=none [speaker] #pcspeaker=false [render] scaler=none
I'm reading through all the pages here but I'm not done yet, so this might be redundant information. But a lot of times when I start a DOS game on my iPad the graphics are messed up and the sound skips. I then use Alt+Return to change the aspect ratio and that fixes it. Using "force ratio" in the settings menu doesn't fix this start up problem. I also have moments where not one game will start anymore. What helped was to lower the CPU cycles to the thousands before starting the game (like Castlevania for instance). And in response to the Dark Forces question: I haven't installed the full version yet, but the demo worked for me. My settings are: [dosbox] memsize=16 [cpu] core=normal cycles=3000 cycleup=500 cycledown=20 [render] frameskip=2 aspect=normal scaler=none So far I've been pretty successful with demos like The Dig, Fate of Atlantis, etc.
Thank you. I can actually play games at a reasonable speed now. Heroes Of Might and Magic works well with those settings, if anyone cares to know.
Thank you for taking the time to do that! Yeah, I think I know what's going on now, after getting a tip from Habakuk (<thanks!) and the actual developer in the dospad forum: It appears most people are using file sharing (dragging the file to idos in itunes), and I've been manually sending them over the var/mobile/documents file. In a nutshell, it needs permissions. Thanks again guys
The same thing. When you've got uncompressed folders, zip them, shorten the filename and don't mix upper and lower case letters. Transfer to iDevice, unzip there. Installed? You mean you have them on iPad/iDOS? Create a folder, put the exe inside and try to launch it. Some exe file is nothing more than a zipped folder with an unzip routine inside (launches when executed). For all who are not common with DOS commands, get freeware "DOS navigator" then you can use touchmouse: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=1378878&postcount=200 Because you cant transfer folders via USB/iTunes/Filesharing to iPad/iDOS. Most of the games come in a (as a) folder. It's a folder (directory) what you compress on Mac/PC (an "archive" in Apple speak). You don't need to make a directory and copy the zip into it because the compressed archive decompresses into a folder by itself. You should know if you compressed a folder (directory) or a single file with your Mac/PC first. Strange: Works on iPhone 4 (iOS 4.1) here but not on iPad (iOS 3.2.2; "illegal command"), both never jb.
