Homebrew DosBOX Wii

[Mrmatch]

my crappy pcline usb keyboard works stright away i dont need to re-plug it in or anything.

 

[Jacobeian]

nice, always wanted to play The Incredible Machine with the wiimote

 

[MrTea]

Battle Chess, North & South, Stunt Car Racer, Wings of Fury and ALien Breed all seem to run well... but Moonstone has control issues, robocop 3 crashes and Star Wars Chess also crashes once its plaied the opening speach sample.

Pretty good going so far though!

 

[mowfax]

I don't get why you guys want Windows 3.11 to work... Just for fun?
Are there any good Windows 3.11 Games you want to play?

It's nice to see that it works, but I'm curious what I can do with it on my wii.

 

[exilizer2k]

actually there is no mineswiiper clone for the wii.

But to be honest I think the main reason for emulating a 15year old Operating system on a gaming console could only be fun...

 

[Sashabel]

keyboard work fine for me

Do you connect your USB keyboard after you start DosBox Wii?

Nope. When I start DOSBox it already connected.



r40 (maybe needs new sdl.... but I don't want to install it

)

 

[DjoeN]

I don't get why you guys want Windows 3.11 to work... Just for fun?
Are there any good Windows 3.11 Games you want to play?

It's nice to see that it works, but I'm curious what I can do with it on my wii.

I know one game i really want to play under windows 3.11

"Lode Runner: The Legend Returns" by Dynamix/Sierra On-Line
(A DOS version was released a bit later i think.)

this game needs Windows 3.1 / WfW3.11

Think, that's the only game i wanna play under Windows 3.xx

"Lode Runner: The Mad Monks' Revenge" was for Windows 95, as far as i recall

 

[Mrmatch]

rev40

Civilisation - loads all the menus up to you selecting a tribe etc but when the game starts it code dumps.
Cannon Fodder - loads up to the MVP software splash then crashes.
Dinopark - setup crashes. game works a bit... pulling up the date crashes it.
Dopewars - Works fine as far as i can tell
Theme park - Cant click on the check to start the game...

 

[xcvmvcx]

Do any of the Sierra games load? :-)

 

[Deleted-171178]

GTA doesnt.

 

[skryckman]

I have tried Kings Quest 2 from Sierra and it loads fine and have movement. Did not lag for me and intro music played fine. But only let it play for a minute or two.

 

[DjoeN]

Alien Carnage (Apogee)
- Feels a bit slow, but working, Classic controller works as joystick

Arkanoid, Revenge of Doh (Taito)
- Crashes with a code dump after +/- a minute of gameplay

Prince of Persia 2 (Broderbound)
- Some sound hishes, when starting up, but plays fine (Only played till the boat)

Duke Nukum Episode 1: Shrapnel City
- Works Fine

Duke Nukum Episode 2: Mission - Moonbase
- Works Fine

Duke Nukum Episode 3: Trapped in the Future!
- Works Fine

Duke Nukem 2
- Works Fine

Hocus Pokus
- Works Fine

Commander Keen 1: Invasion of the Vorticons
- Works Fine

All tested unwder DOSBox r40

 

[HaTaX]

For those of you looking to get network / internet connections with this setup....

For starters I haven't even tried out DOSBox yet, but most likely will soon, it looks like a fantastic project and I'd like to try it out. Have some old games I loved to play.. (DeathTrack.... )

Anyway, I noticed the configuration has a section for serial port / modem configuration. If you could get a modem connection to go back to a PC and use it to share the internet connection out over a dial up connection, you could get to the internet with it! Not sure how fast it would be, but I bet it could work. Remember in Win 3.1/3.11 you have no ability to connect without using a software winsock application like Trumpet.

Just thought I'd add that in case someone was trying to get internet connectivity in Windows 3.1, might help someone figure out a way to do it.

If you could get even a basic version of windows 95 running, I'd think the web browsing experience would be far better, I don't think flash even has a player that will run in 3.1..

 

[Dteyn]

HaTaX, in my last post in this thread I posted this:

http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/ne2kstuff/db_ne2000.html

Basically it's a patch for DOSBox that adds NE2000 ethernet support. If someone was able to merge this into the DOSBox Wii source, there may be a way to get DOSBox Wii to support ethernet connections using the Wii's network access.

In other words, it may (with some work) be possible to get DOSBox Wii internet connectible... there are many DOS TCP stacks as well as the Trumpet one that you mention for Windows 3.x.

I for one think it would be really neat to have internet access in Windows 3.1... I just want to be able to control Netscape 4 with the Wiimote.

 

[DjoeN]

...

Added some screenshots i took of games i tested (see my post above)

 

[Deleted-171178]

Do any of the Sierra games load? :-)


QUOTE(DjoeN @ May 11 2009, 09:48 PM) ...

Added some screenshots i took of games i tested (see my post above)

Thanks dude, added.

 

[DjoeN]

Seems there working everyday on this

r42 is out:
http://code.google.com/p/dosbox-wii/source.../#svn/trunk/src

 

[exilizer2k]

r42 Changelog:
change back to 22khz. seems to work better.

So nothing really new...

 

[elfsander]

I don't get why you guys want Windows 3.11 to work... Just for fun?
Are there any good Windows 3.11 Games you want to play?

It's nice to see that it works, but I'm curious what I can do with it on my wii.

Minesweeper!!!

Nah, my test on the Win 3.11 road is just for fun/win3.11 apps.

 

[DjoeN]

Ok, here's a new list of games:
Tested on DOSBox r40

1942: The Pacific Air War (1994 - Micropose)
- Working, but slow, sound is a complete mess

3-D Helicopter Simulator (1987 - Sierra)
- Working as far as i can tell

Dragons Lair (1989 - Sullivan Bluth)
- Working as far as i can tell

Dune (1992 - Avalon Interactive)
- Working as far as i can tell

Golden Axe (1989 - Sega)
- Working as far as i can tell

Italy '90 (1989 - U.S. Gold)
- Working as far as i can tell

Loderunner - The Legend Returns (1994 - Sierra)
- Working, but you can't play, cause you can only run left (making holes left and right works)

The Lost Vikings (1992 - InterPlay)
- Black Screen (sound continues) (press home to return to HBC)

MegaMan (1990 - Capcom)
- Working, runs a bit to fast to enjoy the game

MS-Pacman (1983 - Atari)
- Working as far as i can tell

Outrun (1988 - Sega)
- Working as far as i can tell

EPIC Pinball (1993 - Epic MegaGames)
- Black screens when you starts to play the choosen table

Pinball Dreams (1992 - 21st Century Entertainment)
- when starting the game, you always return to dos

Push Over (Ocean)
- Working as far as i can tell

Robocop (1988 - Ocean)
- Working, Runs to fast to play descent

Sim City (1989 - Broderbound / Maxis)
- Working BUT Mouse only works bottom half of the screen

Sokoban '97 (1997 - Thinking Rabbit)
- Black screen

The Games Summer Edition (1991 - Epyx)
- Working as far as i can tell

Test Drive 2 - The Duel (1990 - Accolade)
- Working as far as i can tell

Tetris Classic (1993 - Spectrum Holobyte Inc)
- Working as far as i can tell

Zaxxon (1984 - Sega)
- Working but runs to fast to play descent