486dx2 System Question

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I still have an pentium 133 for my dos games, but really, I think it's obsolete. DosBox has almost 100% DOS compatibility (if you know how to configure it correctly), and that's more than that pentium 133 can achieve, because older games run too fast on it (moslow didn't work for me), or for one game you need emm386 and the other not... fussing around with one game to be needed to installed on C:, and the other in another directory of it's own, messing it all up for you.
No, Dosbox + dbgl is all the way for me considering dosgaming, (except for one old 8086/80286 with monochrome monitor, for dust sniffing purposes)

Just accept this wisdom from an old MS-DOS veteran. ;-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Well... you can use DOS 6.22's multi-config booting option to have various bootup configs. I did that, had like 3 or 4 configs for various amounts of RAM and memory managers. For instance, Wing Commander liked EMS, I believe. However, many demos didn't want ANY XMS or EMS, just raw memory.

Yes, and that fussing around, I hated.

Using DOSBox is like using WinUAE. There's many people who just prefer the real thing.

Oh yes, I normally prefer the real thing above others, but I see dosbox more like a tool for the real thing, rather than being an emulator.
But, considering a 286 with a monochrome display, I'd say you're right. :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

da9000 wrote:
There are certain people who are more prone to enjoying physical objects, touching, feeling, smelling (hey, stop thinking what you're think you dirty pervs! :-p ). Anyways, I'm the type that enjoys putting his hands onto things

Go on, go on! I love when men are talking like that :-D

Also on the PPC Macs it seriously needs a JIT - it's hard to get sound that's not choppy, and definitely not working well with many demos.

I don't run it on PPC macs, and I don't get choppy sound as well, it's just 100% MSDOS, in fact, it's more compatible than a real MSDOS machine, since it perfectly emulates all the environments.
You just need to get the settings right.
Normally I also prefer the real thing (heck, I collect old computers, while these can be emulated), but now my pentium1 would gather dust if it were not for the fact that I use it's parallel port for StarCommander (PC->C64 floppy transfer).
Well, it is that way after dosbox 0.70 + DBGL, otherwise I'd say you're totally right considering 486's.
However, the feeling of a 286 cannot really be emulated, with their lovely yellow/orange monochrome displays (ah, memories). I do not want that to be emulated either.
Maybe it's a repression of my memories during the 486 time, or maybe I remember it too lively, when my computer was always too slow, and setting ipx networking/soundblaster settings/emm386 fuss was really a pain in the arse (har har)
It's the very reason why I fell in love with the spare computer I got (because of the single tasking nature of my pc) - an Amiga.