Dosbox newbie
 

Im not exactly sure what im doing but im trying to play fantasy empires thru dosbox and it gets to the title screen but neither the keyboard or mouse will work to initiate the game! and in this im prob just new but can dosbox be full screen or only a little window? Thanks in advance :)

i don't know but it started working for me after i ran sound setup, maybe cuase it didn't initialise mouse before? or i don't know
so run SOUND.exe
then pick option 2 sound cards, choose roland for music (should be the only option if you havn't changed default dosbox config) and for sound pick sound blaster 16, leave everything detect automatically and save

then run fantasy.exe

that worked :) thanks!

no probs ____

still wondering if its possible to maximise the screen for dosbox tho :o

Full screen: ALT+ENTER
:)

Just a side notice - if you select in some game in DosBox Roland MT-32, Roland Sound Canvas or any other Roland card as the option for music, without having the actual external sound module attached to your computer or without having at least an emulator for that type of music module, the music output in the game would be incorrect, and often even crappy compared to Soundblaster / Soundblaster Pro / Soundblaster 16 selection. The reason is because DosBox doesn't emulate those music modules.
You might want to simply select one of the Sound Blaster options for music in that case, if you want the music being played as intended.

If you still want to use the Roland option(s), one possibility is to buy one of those sound modules on eBay, but they're usually heavy bid on and end up being sold for quite high prices. Another possibility, for example for Roland Sound Canvas, is to get Virtual Sound Canvas (version 3.23 as only this one can run in Windows XP) which is an emulator for this sound module and does the emulation quite good.
For Roland MT-32 there're also emulators available, in my opinion the best is this one - Link. But you'll need the two Mt-32 ROM files for it, which are not provided with the emulator.

Cool! thanks for the extra info also... now all i need is the speakers for my computer and i can try it all out... lmao :nuts: