DCK

[shadow1013]

Quick question on the doom construction kit. whenever I try to run it on dosbox it crashes as soon as i select a video driver. if i try to select vesa dosbox crashes as well, and if i select s3 (which is what the dosbox card emulates) then dck wont startup complaining of missing driver. what gives?

[el zee]

DCK 3.62 works fine for me in dosbox 0.74, in VESA 800x600.

What versions of dck/dosbox are you running?

[hex11]

Hmm, some months ago I did get the last freeware version of DCK to run in DOSBox, but can't remember which settings I used. I ended up just learning Yadex instead because the DCK was very laggy under emulation.

Edit: oh my DOSBox is v0.73 though (mainly because I haven't upgraded my OS in the past 18 months, lol). Maybe the changes in 0.74 might make DCK snappier.

@NiuHaka: yeah, DCK was so nice and easy back in the day that I never learned DEU. ;) It also has some cool features like user-definable texture themes...

[NiuHaka]

I really wish Doom Builder was more like DCK. I really have nothing constructive to add to this. Just wanted to blurt that out.

[Pottus]

I tried it out in DOSBOX and it worked for me my only thought was how spoiled we are today with the 3D editing mode.

[shadow1013]

el zee, i have both dosbox 0.74 and dck 3.62, but when i try vesa 800x600 it crashes dosbox. i run linux x64 btw, and it crashes with a segmentation fault with a whole bunch of error messages from dosbox complaining about illegal writes to cs:ip

[el zee]

I don't know why it's not working, try messing with the dosbox config file, or post at the dosbox forums.

Also before dosbox was around I used to use a dos bootdisk to run DCK. I don't know if that will work these days with todays large hard disk sizes etc..

[shadow1013]

well i messed with everything and it still wouldnt work.. i change the cpu emulator to simple and i saw the loading screen but then it crashed again...

[hex11]

I tried the old version I linked to again and it works fine with VESA mode at 800x600. Basically:

$ cd /tmp; mkdir dck; cd dck; unzip dck22f.zip
$ cd /tmp; mkdir doom; cd doom; cp $DOOMWADDIR/doom.wad .
$ dosbox -fullscreen
C:\> mount d /tmp
C:\> d:
D:\> cd dck
D:\DCK> dck

I chose VESA when it asked for video driver, and then it just worked. I loaded my map, and used the auto-align tool to fix a bunch of linedefs on the map I'm working on. Saved the map, exited DOSBox, ran bsp and tested the map (looked okay).

I have these settings in ~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf:
machine=svga_s3
memsize=16
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=auto
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true

[shadow1013]

umm where else can I get that file? because your link doesn't work for me

[hex11]

It looks like tripod doesn't allow direct linking. Clear your cache and follow the link near the bottom of the main page instead:
http://doomquarter.tripod.com/

[shadow1013]

thank you :D it works!