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[Yobor]

I have an old 98 computer, but it doesn't run DOS cause it's busted :-(
A lot of games that I remeber that should have been running at certain speeds just aren't cutting it with DOSbox. Why does the dosbox not put more into it?

[Eagle of Fire]

Moving the thread in the forum it belong now.

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Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@Mar 1 2005, 05:05 PM
Hey, I don't have anything against having a pure-true-DOS old machine with sole purpose of bring used to play games, but it makes little sense to me to run a 1,3 Ghz computer under true DOS just to play old games. That's all.

On the other hand, if that's your slowest and oldest machine -I myself am not that priviliged unfortuantely- it might be useful :whistle:

Anyway, I'm still tweaking my Compaq Pressario 4810 P166 that I found in the basement at work k:

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Originally posted by Yobor@Mar 1 2005, 09:52 PM
I have an old 98 computer, but it doesn't run DOS cause it's busted :-(
A lot of games that I remeber that should have been running at certain speeds just aren't cutting it with DOSbox. Why does the dosbox not put more into it?

It takes a lot of sheer processing power to emulate a CPU. As a guidline, the emulating system has to be 4 times as fast and powerfull as the emualted one. This means that in theory with a fully optimized emulator you could emulate a 1GHz-proc on a 4Ghz machine.
However, the protected mode that many DOS-games use (this comes from the DOSBox-site btw) is vastly resource hungry and so the power needed goes up exponentially.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Anyway, I'm still tweaking my Compaq Pressario 4810 P166 that I found in the basement at work*

Myself I'm fighting to get a 486 to run. Found a pile of hardware (most old or broken) at work, but there was a 486 DX2/80 and a motherboard that supported it. Now, I also found out that there is another board that should support 486 DX4/100, but only Intel ones. Happens that I have one like that left from my old PC which ended up with a fried motherboard a few months back.

[Grinder]

I know that running DOS on a 1.3Ghz is stupid, I put windows on it now. I just bought an old pentium 1 pc i want to use for DOS games. it has 166Mhz, 1.1GB HDD and 32MB EDO RAM. Dos 6.2 English. Also a CD-Rom drive at 24x speed.

[cpt renault]

I always feel a little lame whenever I read the machinery other people use. I feel so...behind the times. *sigh*

[TheChosen]

Please. Stop digging up 4 year old threads.