Starting up help

[Cleon]

hi everyone i was wonderin if someone could help me. Recently ive been trying to run jazz jackrabbit on my pc but it just wont work. The proper CD version doesnt work nor does another i downloaded. Just say i open the folder and everything i can access setup, instruction manual etc but when i go to open jazz.exe or the msdos one it opens it up to black for about a second then closes again?any ideas on gettin the hunk a junk to work?

If it helps i have windows XP

[Erik]

use dosbox

[SPAZ18]

Here's the link to DosBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

[LittleFreak]

Yep, Jazz won't work on XP without it (or a similiar programm maybe).

[Doubble Dutch]

TPPatch works too.

[Tik]

TPPatch works too.And is probably better than dosbox (which runs quite slowly, at least for me). Here's a link to it: http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/downloads/info.php?levelID=341

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

And is probably better than dosbox (which runs quite slowly, at least for me). Here's a link to it: http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/downloads/info.php?levelID=341

TPPatch doesn't make JJ1 works under XP though. DOSBox running slow? Use CTRL+F12 to increase the amount of CPU Cycles (emulated speed). Around 9000 should give you Pentium speed.

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3

[SPAZ18]

If you go into dosbox.conf using Notepad and change the the "cycles" value to auto, DosBox will try to guess the correct amount of cycles when you run a program. This is in the latest version 0.65.

[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
# You can also let DOSBox guess the correct value by setting it to auto.
# Please note that this guessing feature is still experimental.
# cycleup -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.

core=normal
cycles=auto
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[ThunderPX]

And is probably better than dosbox (which runs quite slowly, at least for me). Here's a link to it: http://www.jazz2online.com/J2Ov2/downloads/info.php?levelID=341

This is clearly the fault of your crappy system.

[Jimbob]

This is clearly the fault of your crappy system.
I have a really fast system, and, well, at first, my Dosbox ran VERY slowly, then someone came and changed my CPU cycles to about 9,500. That runs at a good speed.

[Tik]

This is clearly the fault of your crappy system.A helpful comment. Actually, I had forgotten about using CTRL+F12 to increase the cycle speed. I have bad memories of using dosbox on my old system, however, to make that Xargon tileset. Jerky as hell, that.

[ThunderPX]

My best PC is still pretty crappy and it runs everything in DOSbox perfectly without me having to adjust the cycles.