Hi,

since I've installed Win 10 I now want to reinstall Lemmings 2. I remember the window of the game was much bigger about a year ago when I last played it. I've followed your instructions and changed the scaler to normal3x but the window is still far too small to enjoy the game. I can't remember how I made it substantially bigger the last time. I realise that one cannot choose normal 4x or bigger. Is there any other way to increase the window? I've played around with all the possible values but didn't get a good result.

I'd appreciate your help.

Quote from: toriancarconn on October 27, 2018, 09:28:51 AM
got it, thanx

got it, thanx

Awesome

Earlier today I have told my son that I have found a solution for saving the game which means we do not need to start all over again each time we play it. He was ecstatic.

I tried the option to increase the size of the window in which I am playing the game but for some reason it is not increasing. Any option to use the full screen for playing the game? In case playing it full screen leads to the resolution being too low I would at least like to increase it somewhat. Right now I would say the game window uses a third of the height of my monitor and about half of its breadth. A bit too small.

While increasing the size of the game window there does not exist any option to keep the same resolution I guess, right?

Hello,

thank you, kieranmiller, very much for this input. I hope you will see this message. If you do, please respond so I know you have read this. I have been looking for a way to play Lemmings 2 on my Windows PC for a while now. I do not know much at all about the technical side of things but when I followed the steps you outlined it worked. I am so happy because before this I was playing a Lemmings 2 version that I believe had an error. I wasn't able to save games and each time needed to start all over again. Another version I tried did not let me go to the next level.

Now this works. I thank you for your help. My son, he is six, really likes this game, and now I can play it again with him together. Ah, nostalgia, what wonderful memories I have about discovering all of these wonderful C64 and Amiga games!

Kind regards,
Torian

P.S. Thank you, @mobius and @Simon, too.

Quote from: kieranmillar on May 02, 2017, 09:00:06 PM
I told a friend how to set up Lemmings 2, I'll repost it here.

1. Grab the DOS version here: http://www.camanis.net/lemmings/lemmings2.php

2. Extract the zip file somewhere. E.g. C:/games/lem2

3. Get DosBox here, presumably you want Windows but all sorts of operating systems are supported: http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

4. Install DosBox.

5. In your Start menu, you should go to DosBox and look for the Options, specifically "DosBox 0.74 Options". This is a text file where you set the various options.

6. In the options file you're looking for 3 options:

• Render options, scaler=normal2x. Can change this to normal3x if the game is a bit too small on your screen for your liking.
  
• Cpu options, cycles. Not sure what the default is here, but I'd recommend 10000, which keeps the loading times low without dedicating too much unnecessary processing power to running a 25-year old game.
  
• Autoexec options. This is right at the very bottom of the file, and you'll want to add in the following 3 lines (substituting the path you extracted Lemmings 2 onto your machine):
  
  mount c c:/games/lem2
  c:
  l2-fix
  

(This autoexec assumes you only want to play Lemmings 2, never anything else.)

7. Run Dosbox and Lemmings 2 should boot straight up. You'll need to press Enter at the screen at the start that says who cracked the game :p

8. Check if there is any sound and music playing. If not, press Exit on the main menu, then at the DOS prompt you'll be at, type "install". Then in there choose "Soundblaster" as your soundcard and accept the default of everything else. Try the game again by typing "l2-fix"

9. If it's all working, you can close DosBox by typing "exit" at the DOS prompt, by pressing Alt+F9, or by freeing your mouse from being locked inside the window by Alt-Tabbing out and then just closing the window.

10. In the menu options inside Lemmings 2 you'll find "Cheat Mode" which is essentially level select, might help if you get stuck. (Cheat Mode appears because you ran l2-fix and not l2.)