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.