Talk:DOSBox/Archive 1

message: Should I mention that DOXBox runs on the Sony Play Station portable console?
:Only if you've got a reliable source for it, and if it's an officially supported platform.--Drat (Talk) 05:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Quick question

message: Does this emulator support unreal mode, as stated in that article? --surueña 14:01, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
:I believe it does, as one of the many DOS games I play in the BeOS version of DOSBox requires it - just not sure which one now.... --Kiand 14:21, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreal mode

message: Many games I played on DOSBox run slow on it compared to the Windows XP virtual DOS mode.  Is their any way to tweak the settings to allow programs to run faster? (unsigned comment from anon)
:I don't have any experience running it on windows (I use linux), but I believe it's obvious it'll be much slower. DosBOX is an emulator; the code is translated with a jitter or interpreted by an interpreter, not run directly on your CPU; and all hardware (vga card, sound card, etc.) is emulated, not used directly. It makes sense because it works in other arches (like ppc) and will still run even if the hardware dogmas do change, like how future amd64 or intel's 64bit cpus will drop x86 support completelly. On Linux, on slow cpus, what we do is stuff like enabling frameskip and jit as opposed to interpreter.-- Roc VallèsTalk|Hist - 23:42, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's worth remembering that the DOSBox crew are constantly improving the Dynamic core option both in terms of speed and stability. I've performed a test using the DOS version of Quake to compare how fast will it perform, and found out that in 0.70 it was nearly twice as fast as in 0.65, if the FPS given by the program can be relied upon.--The Fifth Horseman 12:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  slow program 

message: Can anyone comment on this quote from the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition page:
:Another solution is to use virtualization software like VMware or VirtualPC to run other versions of Windows or MS-DOS, but are considered "hellishly slow" to users compared to the aforementioned DOSBox. DOSBox will also allow 16-bit Windows applications to run by running Windows 3.1 on the emulator
I've always believed and heard that DOSbox is in fact slower then VMware and other virtualisation software. This makes sense because it's an emulator even if it does do dynamic translation. As such, this comment sounds incorrect to me. But I don't have enough experience to say for sure. If you're reasonably sure that this claim is incorrect, please go ahead and edit the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition page. Nil Einne 19:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faster then VMware 

message: which may not run properly on newer PCs and may not run at all on non-IBM PC compatibles (e.g. PowerPC Macintosh).
::If DOSBox has been ported to GP2X, doesn't that make this statement untrue?  Or does the GP2X have something similar to an x86?  —TheMuuj Talk 18:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I read that statement out of context.  I retract my question. —TheMuuj Talk 05:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-x86? 

message: Every time I try to play a game in full screen, it won't let me because of the frequency range of my monitor.--67.10.200.101 21:50, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full screen 

message: Does DOSBox have any form of DRM? Devil Master 09:09, 15 December 2006 (MET)
:None that I know of. Why would it? It's just an emulator.--Drat (Talk) 08:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DRM? 

message: Like all open  source programs its crap . this  useless emulator  cannot run dukenukem 3d on a 3200 64bit amd—Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.149.107.137 (talk • contribs) 
:Have you read the issues section? Game console emulators have slightly similar problems. It's also pretty silly to dismiss all open source software because of one program.--Drat (Talk) 22:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In answer to my own questions: (1) I found a way to disable disc access for this game (simply overwrite all INT 13 commands with NOP), so it now runs - albeit without saved highscores. (2) In dosbox.conf set machine=tandy to enable emulation. Bastie 08:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't a forum for discussing the topic. There is an official DOSBox forum for such things.--Drat (Talk) 05:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lexi