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Itlodeo

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Posted February 15, 2009

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I would like to play with joystick/joypad, but i don't find any option about controls, can someone solve my problem?
What is the best graphic option for my grafic card? I have a Ati Radeon 9000 all in wonder.
Edit: Thank you very much hansschmucker!

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hansschmucker

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Posted February 15, 2009

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Itlodeo: I would like to play with joystick/joypad, but i don't find any option about controls, can someone solve my problem?
What is the best graphic option for my grafic card? I have a Ati Radeon 9000 all in wonder.

The gfx card doesn't matter: Screamer can't use it anyway, only the processor power matters. Anything above 2Ghz and you should be covered for 640x480.
About the joystick... that's a little more complicated than it ought to be:
Go to your SCREAMER directory
Open dosboxScreamer.conf with notepad
Find the line "starth.exe" near the bottom
Replace it with "setup.exe" without quotes
Start Screamer from your desktop link (it will now open setup instead)
Go to controls and configure the joypad
Exit setup
replace "setup.exe" with "starth.exe" again
Launch again to play Screamer with gamepad.

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hansschmucker

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Posted February 15, 2009

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One more thing:
You may want to set timed=false in the config file to solve the calibration issue,

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Pandy

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Posted April 24, 2009

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I've done the
Go to your SCREAMER directory
Open dosboxScreamer.conf with notepad
Find the line "starth.exe" near the bottom
Replace it with "setup.exe" without quotes
Start Screamer from your desktop link (it will now open setup instead)
Go to controls and configure the joypad
Exit setup
replace "setup.exe" with "starth.exe" again
Launch again to play Screamer with gamepad.
And it launches and then closes.
Any ideas?

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chautemoc

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Posted May 06, 2009

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Pandy: I've done the
Go to your SCREAMER directory
Open dosboxScreamer.conf with notepad
Find the line "starth.exe" near the bottom
Replace it with "setup.exe" without quotes
Start Screamer from your desktop link (it will now open setup instead)
Go to controls and configure the joypad
Exit setup
replace "setup.exe" with "starth.exe" again
Launch again to play Screamer with gamepad.
And it launches and then closes.
Any ideas?

Yeah, this happens all the time with me. Only thing to do is keep opening it til it works (sometimes this takes 10 tries :P).

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yowie

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Posted July 28, 2009

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That didn't work for me but I found my own solution. I installed the original DOS Screamer on my WIN 98 PC, then booted into pure DOS and ran setup from there. I then copied the controls.cfg file to my laptop and hey presto! I now can use the Z key to accelerate, yay.

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dpost2002

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Posted September 05, 2011

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My problem: Vista won't let me save the file after changing "starth" to "setup.exe" to .conf from Notepad. Any suggestions?