Listening to audio material on headphones where certain sounds are only present in either the left or the right channel can be a rather distracting and unpleasant experience. This is most noticeable on certain Dual OPL game soundtracks and tracker music (e.g. MOD, XM, S3M, IT, etc.).
Professional headphone amplifiers like pictured below implement a feature called "crossfeed" to eliminate this problem.
The crossfeed feature in DOSBox Staging does the same; by enabling crossfeed in the [mixer] section, a certain percentage of the left channel is mixed into the right, and vice versa. The default crossfeed strength is 40% which is a good general setting, but you can provide a custom percentage value as well (e.g. crossfeed = 55).
The amount of crossfeed can be fine-tuned per individual channels via mixer commands; please type MIXER /? in the DOSBox prompt for further details.
Most DOS-era sound cards feature an output low-pass filter (and sometimes a high-pass filter too) that play an important role in giving their sound its character. DOSBox Staging can accurately emulate these analog output stage filters for all supported sound devices.
sb_filter
opl_filter
cms_filter
lpt_dac_filter
pcspeaker_filter
ps1audio_dac_filter
ps1audio_filter
tandy_dac_filter
tandy_filter
fsynth_filter
gus_filter
innovation_filter
mt32_filter
Filters are enabled by default for all small-speaker audio systems (PC Speaker, PS/1 Audio, Tandy, and the various LPT DAC options). Depending on the particular device, these filters either emulate the analog output filters of the original device, or the sound coming out of a small band-limited speaker in an acoustic environment. Either way, the result is a more period-accurate and pleasant listening experience, especially on headphones.
Advanced users can specify custom filter settings for any of the supported sound devices. You can specify either a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter, or both at the same time.
MSDOS version installed from GOG & got the SEGA rom. Comparatively, the DOS version have poor graphics. This is not a problem but the SEGA version (1990) also have music.
The introduction is already very immersive. Let's discover the game!
I think I'm approaching the end of episode 1: "Dr. Mangle's Lab"! :0)
"Legacy:
Apogee released the game as freeware on December 23, 2005 as a "Christmas present", and the full game can be downloaded from the Apogee website. On 23 October 2014, 3D Realms released 3D Realms Anthology, which includes Bio Menace".. from Wikipedia
Paths passed to commands mount, imgmount, and audio track paths in .cue and .ins files are now treated as case-insensitive, regardless of the operating system.
Fixes numerous issues with running DOS games on Linux or FreeBSD. This change alone corrects the vast majority of Windows-only DOS game releases on GOG or Steam (such as e.g. Settlers II, Redneck Rampage, or Mortal Kombat series) - users no longer need to manually adjust the paths after unpacking games from Windows installer.
This should significantly improve the quality of Lutris installers as well.
DOSBox Staging Basics
Today: Improve Telnet-mode handling for modem emulation
For those hosting a BBS behind a Telnet interface, you can now pre-configure your serial port in Telnet-mode with the telnet:1 argument, as follows:
[serial]
serial1 = modem telnet:1 listenport:2323
For those dialling BBSs hosted behind a Telnet interface, use the following dial-prefix: AT+NET1DT. In general, the +NET1 or +NET0 AT-command will enable or disable Telnet-mode, respectively.
This change brings Telnet-mode in-line with the Hayes multi-character command specification, which should be compatible with existing BBS software.
Coming soon-ish to a Twitch stream near you... IT CAME FROM DOS: A DOS TRASH SERIES!
A stream series dedicated to some of the very worst DOS games ever to grace a floppy drive and inspired by one of my very favorite YouTube content creators in Civvie 11.
This a terrible idea but... well, those are my favorite kind!
DOSBox Staging Basics
Today:Splash screen and help banner verbosity control
The splash screen and its delay, as well as the blue help banner, can now be skipped using the startup_verbosity setting in the [dosbox] section in the config file. The verbosity can be set as follows:
high shows everything: the splash screen, blue help banner, and initial console output.
medium skips just the splash screen and its delay, but still shows the blue help banner and initial console output.
low skips both the splash screen, delay, and blue help banner, but still shows initial console output.
quiet skips all of the above. The first output will either be the command prompt or output from startup executables or batch files.
By default, the verbosity is set to auto, which is either low when an executable or directory is passed on the command-line or high when DOSBox Staging is started without initial commands.
For a visual depiction of the options, see: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/477
Save exported & reimported to another machine on DosBox.
Halfway to potentially find the "Amulet of Yandor"?! We all want it! There were some very, very hot moments!
But, huhu.. I totally forgot the name of the scroll after reading it!! Very helpful!! haha
I've made good progress, but I'm afraid I'll miss food.
Oh yes, NetHack of course, I play it too! :0) https://www.nethack.org
It's more complete because you can choose your class and race, have a dog or a cat, useful for treasure detection or combat.
Okay!
Some of you got the "Amulet of Yendor" one day?!
A tip for the next game party would be to hang around in the 1st levels to level up since the mobs respawn randomly. But watch out for the food in this case.