Brain1012's Tutorial #2: Some DOSBox Commands and DOSBox Games

I know this tutorial is long, and has no music or anything eye-popping.

I mean, even I am tired of making this video.

But you guys need help, and I'm here to help. All I need is your questions, and I'll look for an answer.

Now I'm sure that if you pick a random game to play when you want to do this tutorial, you'll need the documentation to figure out the game's controls, copy-protection, etc... So I'm posting a link to a site that has pretty much every single game documentation known to a human being:

http://www.replacementdocs.com/news.php (If it's down, I won't know. Sorry if it is.)

If you're wanting to know where I got the game, here's the link to it: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/74/Flashback.html

The discussion for it is located here, in case the tutorial here didn't work for you. Ask them about it, cause they know more: http://www.abandonia.com/en/forum?url=showthread.php?t=105

Here's the list of some of the Abandonware sites that I know of:

www.abandonia.com
http://www.xtcabandonware.com/

The better ones are better left unsaid.

Here's a link to some fan-made games:

http://www.reloaded.org/

A lot of them are really good!

If I left anything out, be sure to tell me. I'll get to it as soon as I can.

Read the comments! They can help solve miscellaneous issues that this video does not cover!

Keep the Annotations, for there is an important update to the information in the video.

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[seriouslyWeird]

i should have watched it whole before posting

1. ctrl+f12 is not a dos command

2. you could use "core auto" "cycles auto" in most of cases, dosbox does the job pretty well

3. frameskip doesn't make the game chop, more like other way, on slower machines it helps to run them more smooth

4. you CAN install the game, it's just that you had to mount your FB directory as a virtual floppy drive A and dosbox would install from there. it was looking for a drive that you didn't create

[brain1012]

Very nice, thanks for the corrections. I'm no expert on DOSBox... And why did Youtube remove the video?

[seriouslyWeird]

which video do you mean?

[brain1012]

This one.

[seriouslyWeird]

it did not get removed o_O works for me

[brain1012]

Really? That's weird...

[brain1012]

Nevermind, it works... Youtube maintenance I suppose.

[seriouslyWeird]

you mean dosbox commands and dos games

[brain1012]

Yes, because DOSBox is only able to affect files in your "CDrive" folder. If your game comes in a bunch of files, it's recommended that you put all of the game files in a folder.

[TheMikon]

sorry but nevermind I installed it into my cdrive folder and it works. As for Syndplus it's different it doesn't have an install exe file