Howdy all! heh... okay. After some mindless tinkering on my computer several months ago, I installed DOSBox and VDMSound onto my computer so I could play some old games. (ah... nostalgia...) Anyway, a friend of mine found an old game of his that he wanted to play again and asked me to get him an emulator. Now for the actual question: I know that you need VDMSound to get sound from your games, but does VDMS need DOSBox to play the games?

No. They are two completely different programs.

VDMSounds is used to play games under Windows directly (looks at least like it) and DosBOX is a whole emulator with shell and all the other stuff. I would always recommend DosBOX for most games run better in it. For those games that do not, well, use VDMSounds. I installed both on my machine ...


cheers,

swiss

They are not that different, as DOSBox is based on VDMSound, but final use of the programs is different.

I too recomend DOSBox if you have fast enough PC.

VDM can be used for those games that you can manage to get running under Windoze. It runs X-Com Apocalypse at a normal speed, while DosBox needs a very powerful piece of hardware to achieve the same.

I was wondering, 'cause I seem to only get sound from my few DOS games through VDMS. DOSBox doesn't seem to do it. I just want to make sure I'm not having my friend put more programs on his computer than he needs to have.

In dosbox you need to have the dos games setup to use thje values dosbox is emulating. In the old days, they had soundcard setup...

I can run most Dos Games on my old 2001 PC. Most games from this site i can run perfectly. But a little over the edge.