Dosbox... a cool dosbox emulator!

hamster

Today I tried a Dosbox emulator. DOSBox emulates a full x86 pc with sound and dos. It's main use is to run old dosgames on platforms which don't have dos(win2K/XP). I must say I'm impressed.

1) I ran the dosbox.exe
2) specified a folder as my c:\ drive.
3) specified a folder as my floppy.
4) Took out my 4 dos Ultima Underworld I floppy and ran the installer.
5) Ran Ultima Underworld I with sound (uses part of the VDMSound Project - legacy soundcard support).

I was able to tinker around with the settings such as:
CTRL-F11 Slowdown emulation.
CTRL-F12 Speedup emulation.

This made it as fast as it was my old 486DX2 with 8Mb back in '93. Woohoo! Now I only have a P3-850Mhz so
if you try it... your p4 or AMD beastie machine might provide more mileage.... All in all... wow! Won't work with DPMI mode games though.

I rather liked UW1. I never completed it due to a item losing bug and back then getting patches (or knowing about them) was difficult. Nice to sample them though.

Try it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox

hamster

Needed to provide a screenshot of the fannnn-tasic graphics. Although the tune makes me want to go through it again. If only there weren't other distractions.

Rambo

Works great on Linux as well

just copy you dos game to your Linux Hard drive then set up you c drive pointing to game directory.

hamster

Rambo,

What distro and spec are you using for it? I'm currently using RH8.1 and a geforce 2 go chipset on a 1.8Ghz P4 laptop. Just wondering are you using a high end P4 for it ?

Rambo

I am using Redhat 80 256m PT3 800 mhz
Intel810 graphics 16mb

Playing Elite Frontier
it is my work pc had a bit of fun at lunch time.