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random DOSBox / DOSEMU comments (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 04.06.2008, 02:21
(edited by Rugxulo on 04.06.2008, 16:10)

I installed DOSEMU 1.4.0 on my bro's late-model PII 366 Mhz (Mendocino??) PuppyLinux 3.01, and it runs pretty well (surprisingly). Of course, I tried one or two little games, and sound either didn't work (Cash Invaders) or it wouldn't load / crashed (BioMenace ... no surprise there). And one image viewing app wouldn't work correctly (SEE), but otherwise it ran most stuff pretty well (e.g. DJGPP apps, even my unfinished PAQ8o8z port using MMX, compressing its own src in a very speedy 20 secs).

DOSBox is good, but it's 486 DX only and dog slow (emulation). And it's hard to find a decent Linux port of it for certain distros (although antiX Mepis 7.2 has 0.72, go figure). Actually, QEMU/KQEMU/SSE2 on my AMD64x2 seems fairly slow too (as does MMX, which is no faster/slower, oddly). So it is indeed a good thing if your Windows can use V86 mode to use DPMI (see next post). Oh, and BTW, DOSEMU also supports VESA 2.0 (as does DOSBox), and DOSEMU can somewhat modify its speed (although I didn't try it).

BTW rr, I've heard that the latest Linux kernels have MUCH MUCH better ACPI support, so it might be worth another try (dual boot, preferably). ;-)

EDIT: Latest Ubuntu has a Windows-based installer, even (WUBI). :cool:

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