I've just realised I didn't download LemEdit2, which I thought I had. But now the clock won't initialise. I did follow the advice in the other thread, but even with the cycles set to 20 it failed--is this Mac OS X being faster than Dosbox is perhaps designed for? I've now set it to 6 but it's taking years to load. Why didn't somebody hack it so it didn't do this?
Because I haven't figured it out yet.
LemEdit2 was made mainly to allow the mouse to work, it doesn't pretend to fix the clock problem. In fact, I only have a fix for the mouse problem because someone else pointed out somewhere on this board that LemEdit attempts to do a check for Windows and then switch to a "Windows compatible mode", but unfortunately the check only works up to Win98--on later versions of Windows the check fails, so LemEdit thinks it's running in a real DOS environment. My hack in LemEdit2 simply forces LemEdit to always use the Windows compatible mode no matter what. It fixes the mouse but doesn't really help with the clock problem.
Really, the author of LemEdit is the one who should be publicly executed for the atrocity. I mean, even Lemmings itself runs on XP, just that the speed is wrong. Mouse at least works there. It behooves me why LemEdit author would try to deal with the mouse and timer in such unorthodox ways that it breaks compatability with basically any system that doesn't have true DOS on it.
While I don't think I can offer much to get around the timer problem, do tell me how bad it is: the test looks for 2 seconds, what did it report back? (On my machine without changing the emulation cycles number from the default 3000, it gives back about 1.70 seconds.)
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I'm also slightly confused now though. I thought you said you are running DOSBox in XP? But now it sounds like you're running it on the Mac OS. Very few people here have Mac OS, and of the ones who do, I think you're the only one so far who has tried DOSBox on it. So we don't know anything about how things will work on the Mac OS. But DOSBox is supposed to be relatively platform independent, so generally things that works in DOSBox on WinXP should also work on DOSBox on Mac OS.
