DOOM at its original resolution without any scaling or enlarging.Īs I mentioned, these settings are my personal preference, so you may want to experiment to find settings that look good to you and give you the performance you want.
Its possible that the mouse driver wasnt enabled, or that its set to the wrong choice, and is ignoring the mouse altogether. It’s amazing how much information game artists were able to cram into so few pixels. You might want to try to running setup.exe in dosbox from the directory that win 3.1 is installed in and check on the mouse option.
If you use Megabuild, you can also browse the Internet by loading a ne2000 packet driver and installing Trumpet WinSock in Windows (run 0圆5 3 0x300 and winpkt 0圆5 before starting Windows). Just for comparison, here is DOOM at its original resolution. Yeah, installing Windows 3.1 in DOSBox is pretty simple. DOOM enlarged with no enhancement or scaling. The results vary depending on what’s being displayed on the screen, but something is better than nothing. Notice how the large red numbers in the screenshots below are pixellated in the first image but smoothed out in the second image with hq3x scaling. hq3x scales the image up 300%, but it can make things look a bit “cartoon-ish” because it smooths pixellated edges. I suddenly cannot control the mouse on my remote computer. This will depend on your personal preference and the speed of your hardware. Right after that I like to change scaler=normal2x to scaler=hq3x. To do this I change the aspect=false line to aspect=true. Once the output is set to ddraw, we can enable aspect correction and scaling. Some DOS resolutions do not use square pixels, so aspect ratio correction keeps these games from looking “squished” on the screen (old CRT monitors did not have a fixed number of pixels, so this was not an issue back in the day). Next I change output=surface to output=ddraw to allow for scaling and aspect ratio correction. If your monitor is different, be sure to use its resolution (e.g. Open the nf file via the Start menu.įirst, I change the line that says fullresolution=original to fullresolution=1920x1080, which is my monitor’s native resolution. These settings can be changed by opening the DOSBox Options from the Start menu. The nf file controls how DOSBox displays old games and software. If either file is located in another directory, you would substitute the C:\Windows\ for the directory containing the file.Compared to today’s high-definition games, DOS games used low resolutions, so playing old games in DOSBox on a modern LCD monitor or HDTV is not an optimal experience without some configuration. Autoexec.bat LH C:\Windows\MOUSE.COM Config.sys DEVICE=C:\Windows\MOUSE.SYS Once the file is on the computer, follow the instructions below that correspond with the file that was found. Go to 'Start', 'Settings' and open 'Control Panel', and then double-click on 'Multimedia Properties'. If you get a file not found error, try the alternate command. If you have a working DOSBox-X General MIDI setup, either emulated or real, you can use that in Windows 98. Once either of these commands are typed in, a list of directories containing the file is shown. To locate a file in MS-DOS, type either of the commands below at C:\> prompt. USB not working or detected in Safe Mode or MS-DOS.īefore placing any information into the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys, you need to locate one of those files on your computer.For a mouse to work in an MS-DOS environment, load the Microsoft mouse driver in the autoexec.bat file or the mouse device driver mouse.sys loading in your config.sys file.