> On Mar 17, 2025, at 2:54 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > My recollection is this game runs in CGA, and QEMU doesn't correctly emulate > all CGA video modes. (I get the same problem on QEMU.) > > Others will have to confirm, but I believe this game works fine on real > hardware. > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 11:59 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: > 1.4-RC3 > cd games > cd dosdef > dosdef > I get, just a sky blue screen. > No reaction to mouse... or Ctrl-Brk (sent to the virtual machine) > So I have to reboot. > > Tried QEMU and VirtualBox. >
This brings up some points we should discuss after the 1.4 release. Possibly, the LSM metadata files should contain a hardware requirements field. Maybe, programs which have special requirements possible get notes added to the LSM for the end-user. For example, the long summary could have things added like (Requires mouse and real hardware. Will not run inside a virtual machine.) Possibly, we could relocate programs that require real hardware or unusual requirements into a new group on the BonusCD. Therefore, they would not be installed by default. We could add a “RUN.BAT” to each program that requires real hardware. The batch could use V8Power Tools VINFO command to test if it is a known VM. Then if one known incompatible emulators is detected, print a message saying it is not supported and exit. There are a number of other things we could do as well. But, I think this is better suited for discussion after 1.4 is released.
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