DosBox:Colonization

Installation

• See DosBox for general details on setting up DosBox programs

Status

• With some overclocking and frameskip the game runs at decent speed without sound.
• Controls are difficult due to lack of mouse emulation. Editing trade routes and accessing the Custom House menu is impossible without mouse.
• Starting a new game takes about 5 minutes.(loading/saving is fast though)

Controls

Game controls:

Start  

Menu / toggle production numbers on/off

Select  

ESC

B  

Enter

Y  

construction menu/ recruit (Colony/Europe screen)

A  

buy/ purchase (Colony/Europe screen)

X  

units present/ train/ move pieces (Colony/Europe/World map)

L  

Tab/ 0

R  

• R + Stick  : numbers according to layout of the numeric keypad, except 5 and 0
• R + Y  : 5
• R + A  : activate unit
• R + X  : go to
• R + vol-  : Space
• R + vol+  : Info screen / change options

vol-  

unload cargo/ move pieces (Colony/World map)

vol+  

load cargo/ view pieces(Colony/World map)

Stick In  

Backspace

DosBox controls:

L + Start  

quit DosBox

L + vol-  

decrease cycles

L + vol+  

increase cycles

R + Start  

capture/release mouse

Files

dosbox.conf

[sdl]
# fulldouble -- Use double buffering.
# output -- Can only be Surface for the gp2x.
# sensitivity -- Mouse sensitivity.
# mapperfile -- File used to load/save the key/event mappings from.
fulldouble=false
output=surface
sensitivity=100
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[dosbox]
# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:hercules,cga,tandy,pcjr,vga.
# memsize -- Amount of memory dosbox has in megabytes.
machine=vga
memsize=4

[render]
frameskip=2
aspect=true
scaler=none

[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# 			Try simple first as this is the fastest, then normal and last full
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# 			Too low and the game will crash randomly
#			Too high and expect slowness
# cycleup   -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown    Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.
core=simple
cycles=2100
cycleup=50
cycledown=100

[mixer]
# nosound -- Enable silent mode, sound is still emulated though.
# rate -- Mixer sample rate, setting any devices higher than this will
#         probably lower their sound quality.
# blocksize -- Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering
#              but sound will also be more lagged.
# prebuffer -- How many milliseconds of data to keep on top of the blocksize.
nosound=true
rate=11025
blocksize=256
prebuffer=500

[sblaster]
# sbtype -- Type of sblaster to emulate:none,sb1,sb2,sbpro1,sbpro2,sb16.
# sbbase,irq,dma,hdma -- The IO/IRQ/DMA/High DMA address of the soundblaster.
# mixer -- Allow the soundblaster mixer to modify the dosbox mixer.
# oplmode -- Type of OPL emulation: auto,cms,opl2,dualopl2,opl3.
#            On auto the mode is determined by sblaster type.
#            All OPL modes are 'Adlib', except for CMS.
# oplrate -- Sample rate of OPL music emulation.
sbtype=none
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=11025

[gus]
# gus -- Enable the Gravis Ultrasound emulation.
# gusbase,irq1,irq2,dma1,dma2 -- The IO/IRQ/DMA addresses of the 
#            Gravis Ultrasound. (Same IRQ's and DMA's are OK.)
# gusrate -- Sample rate of Ultrasound emulation.
# ultradir -- Path to Ultrasound directory.  In this directory
#             there should be a MIDI directory that contains
#             the patch files for GUS playback.  Patch sets used
#             with Timidity should work fine.
gus=false
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
# pcspeaker -- Enable PC-Speaker emulation.
# pcrate -- Sample rate of the PC-Speaker sound generation.
# tandy -- Enable Tandy Sound System emulation (off,on,auto).
#          For auto Tandysound emulation is present only if machine is set to tandy.
# tandyrate -- Sample rate of the Tandy 3-Voice generation.
# disney -- Enable Disney Sound Source emulation.
pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandy=off
tandyrate=22050
disney=false

[joystick]
# joysticktype -- needs to be none, or else expect no input.
joysticktype=none 

[dos]
# xms -- Enable XMS support.
# ems -- Enable EMS support.
# umb -- Enable UMB support (false,true,max).
xms=false
ems=false
umb=true

[autoexec]
mount C "/mnt/sd/dosbox/colonize"
c:
OPENING.EXE -g %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

mapper.txt

#DosBox controls
hand_shutdown "key 105 mod1" 
hand_capmouse "key 105 mod2" 
hand_cycledown "key 114 mod1"
hand_cycleup "key 113 mod1"

#Game controls
#SELECT
key_esc "key 106"
#B 
key_enter "key 110"
#stick in 
key_bspace "key 115"

#L
key_0 "key 108"
key_tab "key 108" 

#R
key_1 "key 100 mod2"
key_2 "key 101 mod2"
key_3 "key 102 mod2"
key_4 "key 99 mod2"
key_6 "key 103 mod2"
key_7 "key 98 mod2"
key_8 "key 97 mod2"
key_9 "key 104 mod2"
key_5 "key 111 mod2"
key_F1 "key 113 mod2"
key_space "key 114 mod2"
key_a "key 109 mod2"
key_g "key 112 mod2"

#Y
key_r "key 111"
key_c "key 111"

#A
key_p "key 109"
key_b "key 109"

#X
key_t "key 112"
key_m "key 112"

#START
key_n "key 105"
key_ralt "key 105"
key_o "key 105" 

#VOL-
key_m "key 114"
key_kp_minus "key 114"

#VOL+
key_v "key 113"
key_kp_plus "key 113"

#Stick
key_kp_1 "key 100"
key_kp_2 "key 101"
key_kp_3 "key 102"
key_kp_4 "key 99" 
key_kp_6 "key 103"
key_kp_7 "key 98"
key_kp_8 "key 97"
key_kp_9 "key 104"

# Mod keys (mod1 = L, mod2 = R) 
mod_1 "key 108" "key 305" 
mod_2 "key 107" "key 307"

start.gpe

#! /bin/sh
/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 1 250 
DIRROOT=/mnt/sd/dosbox
DIRGAME=${DIRROOT}/colonize
cd ${DIRGAME}
${DIRROOT}/dosbox -conf ${DIRGAME}/dosbox.conf
sync
cd /usr/gp2x
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu