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I need to generate some characters for my party. I've got some new
stuff in stock!
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On Sun, 11 May 2025 00:10:59 -0500, Praetor Mandrake
<[email protected]> wrote:

I need to generate some characters for my party. I've got some new
stuff in stock!

I had no idea that saving your state was even a thing in DosBox as I
never had a need to do it.

Anyway, google is your friend. Just google 'how to save your state in
DosBox' and you will have your answer.
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On Mon, 12 May 2025 11:22:38 -0400, Mike S. <[email protected]>
wrote:

I had no idea that saving your state was even a thing in DosBox as I
never had a need to do it.

It isn't, at least not in default DOSBox. I think some of the forks
may offer it as a feature (I think Daum supported savestates; I know
DOSBox-X also has save-states) but I've found it rather buggy when it
comes to actually using it in game. It's tricky enough to do on a
console; on a PC, lacking a standardized environment where the games
did a lot of funky stuff with memory layouts, it's much more
difficult. Games could often be very particular about their states,
and save-states never restore everything perfectly back to how it was
when the state was captured.

That said, I haven't tried using Save-States on DOSBox-X in a dog's
age, so maybe things are better now.



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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 12 May 2025 11:22:38 -0400, Mike S. <[email protected]>
wrote:

I had no idea that saving your state was even a thing in DosBox as I
never had a need to do it.

It isn't, at least not in default DOSBox. I think some of the forks
may offer it as a feature (I think Daum supported savestates; I know
DOSBox-X also has save-states) but I've found it rather buggy when it
comes to actually using it in game. It's tricky enough to do on a
console; on a PC, lacking a standardized environment where the games
did a lot of funky stuff with memory layouts, it's much more
difficult. Games could often be very particular about their states,
and save-states never restore everything perfectly back to how it was
when the state was captured.

That said, I haven't tried using Save-States on DOSBox-X in a dog's
age, so maybe things are better now.

I made do with a bard instead of a samurai and also got lucky about the
same time and rolled a lizardman ninja without "cheating."

The bard is pretty good - something of a jack of all trades. Has
lockpick, music, thaumaturgy and decent ranged and hide/melee. I don't
think his armor is good enough for the front line though. Additionally,
if it comes in range I'll put him as samurai eventually who also uses thaumaturgy.

Something I learned this time around - Alchemists have nice hit points.
A real change from the mage.
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On Mon, 12 May 2025 21:02:05 -0500, Piter De Vries
<[email protected]> wrote:

I made do with a bard instead of a samurai and also got lucky about the
same time and rolled a lizardman ninja without "cheating."

Yeah, I remember some mod or addon you can install to improve your
rolls during character creation. I would use it as I have no interest
in rolling a hundred times just to get the elite classes.
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Mike S. wrote:

On Mon, 12 May 2025 21:02:05 -0500, Piter De Vries
<[email protected]> wrote:

I made do with a bard instead of a samurai and also got lucky about the
same time and rolled a lizardman ninja without "cheating."

Yeah, I remember some mod or addon you can install to improve your
rolls during character creation. I would use it as I have no interest
in rolling a hundred times just to get the elite classes.

Well it was a female lizardman ninja something of an accomplishment.
Just hit that lucky 17 and there it was.
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