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Look what DosBOX can do!!
« on: January 31, 2012, 07:02:11 PM »


At present there are not too many games that run, but the speed is there. As Fish was saying, it is possible to modify the sources so that will more games such as Half-Life can be played, also I guess OpenGL can be made to work, though I've had trouble getting games to run smoothly in GlMode under DosBOX on Windows, but maybe there's something I'm missing.

Sadly, Fish is having computer troubles, so it may be a while till we see any advances, but in the mean time I figured I'd upload this little photo just to show that Windows can indeed be ran inside of AROS! :)

Photo taken on a machine running at 2.6Ghz.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 08:34:30 PM »
It's  98lite, and yes in DosBox on AROS.

Next release should have glide/GL support.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 10:37:49 PM »
I have 1 reason and one reason only...

To run Half-Life, Dark Forces II, and Drac's Shadow (a suped up clone of Castlevania II).

Many old Win95 games are problematic in XP and 7, plus I'm looking for ways to avoid having a dedicated Windows machine in my house.

Besides, the next Amiga Commodore had planned was supposed to be able to run Workbench, Mac OS, and Windows...

I'd say AROS (bugs aside) is the closest to achieving that dream in particular, though I'll be happier once MorphOS is converted to Arm or X86 and will have faster hardware available to pull off such feats as well! MorphOS is just solid all around.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 11:59:37 PM »
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An easy question, I saw your screenshoot, DosBox runs software but this is under img, how I can make this images, because it is How the other virtual machines on Windows? aslo I'll like run DR-DOS the best PC Dos system.

Are you asking me how to take a screen shot in AROS?

At work, will have to get back to you about Dr. Dos.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2012, 03:33:22 AM »
Quote from: Templario;678497
An easy question, I saw your screenshoot, DosBox runs software but this is under img, how I can make this images, because it is How the other virtual machines on Windows? aslo I'll like run DR-DOS the best PC Dos system.


Um... Windows 98 ain't supported by modern hardware dork! :)
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2012, 04:03:18 AM »
Well...

Better ask an AROS fan. While I'm hopeful that it improves, there's not much about it in it's present state that I'm really enthusiastic about aside of the screen drag feature.

I just use it as a beta Amiga like environment to run high end emulators in, that's about it...

Maybe I'm missing something though?

MorphOS on the other hand is what I hope free little old AROS lives up to some day.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2012, 07:32:38 PM »
Wtf happened to my thread?!? :)
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2012, 12:07:35 AM »
Good to see we're back on topic. :)

For the note, I've been busy recording video showing the strengths and weaknesses of both MorphOS and AROS. I will try to eat well and get plenty of rest so that the video remains as unbiased as possible. When they are done I'll post them on YouTube and link to them in a separate thread. I think it should be interesting.

Back to topic, I'll put up guides on how to set Win98 and such in DosBox soonish for those interested in doing this themselves.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2012, 03:31:56 AM »
I'll put it this way.

I'd rather be running Windows under an Amiga-Esque environment, than Amiga under a Windows environment. That being said, all this business is just plain old fun and show cases some of the advantages that come with having support for faster hardware.
That is to say x86 hardware that can take advantage of UAE and DosBox's JIT, unlike PPC, ARM, etc. At least for the time being, I guess there is work being done to bring UAE's JIT to PPC. Until then certain emulators are always going to drag on non-x86 hardware no matter how good the OS may be or how fast the CPU.
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Re: Look what DosBOX can do!!
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2012, 06:14:42 AM »
Quote from: Thorham;678723
Why would I want to have my Amiga gather gust in some corner? My asvice: Use your old Amiga hardware and have fun doing so, that's what Amigas are for :)


Ditto, in regards to classic Amiga. Nothing beats the real deal...

Unlike Windows or DOS. ;)
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