Bashe Posted August 4, 2004 Is there a way to play old DOS games on Win2000/XP? I tried DOSbox, it runs the games like crap. Is there another way to play DOS games besides that? I really wanna play OMF again. I don't think there's any source ports for it. 0 Share this post Link to post
wildweasel Posted August 4, 2004 You can expect Dosbox to run OMF slowly - OMF was designed for a 486/Pentium system, and to be running the equivalent of a 486/Pentium in Dosbox, you'd probably need a 4 GHz computer. And that's with a frameskip setting of 1, and sound disabled. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bashe Posted August 4, 2004 Damn... There might (just might) be a source port for it, but I doubt it. Still, is there any other DOS emulation programs? 0 Share this post Link to post
wildweasel Posted August 4, 2004 There's really only a few options, only one of which is freeware. You can try Bochs (freeware), but it runs slower than Dosbox; VirtualPC, which runs faster but is commercial, and then there's VMware which is also commercial. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted August 4, 2004 Increase the CPU cycles in DOSbox to 8000 for decent OMF performance. (You'll need a 1.3ghz though) DOSBox isn't slow, it's slow at default. And it's all you're getting. Try playing in fullscreen or switch output to overlay rather than surface. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bashe Posted August 4, 2004 Yeah I did those. Oh well, looks like OMF is out of my grasp. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted August 5, 2004 win2000/XP are not made on top of DOS. best case is dual boot, emulators arnt that great right now. i havnt used one that is an absolute beast. or use an older system as a DOS box. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted August 5, 2004 Not really. They probably have work-in-progress supprot for it. You don't need a 4GHz to emulate a 486, you can make do with a 1.8GHz to get a full speed 486 80MHz emulated (estimated) I've played Duke3d in Dosbox on my athlon 950, it was playable, with the screen size lowered a bit. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bashe Posted August 5, 2004 Ah, it's not worth dual booting. Just forget it. Maybe I could make a OMF port... YEAH RIGHT! I could be done, though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted August 5, 2004 In the time it took you to sit on these forums, your dual boot would be installed and working already. Or you could've gone out to a computer store and bought a refurbished 586 system. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted August 5, 2004 Why dualboot? PCI sound cards break almost every dos game in existance. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mordeth Posted August 5, 2004 There are other threads about this. Check them out. 0 Share this post Link to post
VinceDSS Posted August 5, 2004 gargoylol said:Why dualboot? PCI sound cards break almost every dos game in existance. False, Creative SB Live! are very good for most (99.9%) DOS games (PCI sound cards). The best for DOS games is to use Win98 (SE if possible). The SB Live even have a DOS driver if you restart in DOS mode (which is very cool). 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted August 5, 2004 Even on a Win98se system the Live! causes problems. Slow FM OPL2/3 emulation (that actually slows the game itself, and it doesn't sound correct or authentic either), freeze-ups on Build games with reverb (sure there may be a hex-edit for Duke and Blood, but those only cover specific older versions) and some games not detecting the sound at all and only music (most to all of Sierra's games) 0 Share this post Link to post
VinceDSS Posted August 5, 2004 Strangely I can run the build games on my system. I see no slowdown either... the only bad point is that the midi doesnt sound right. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted August 6, 2004 I have no DOS game sound issues whatsoever with my Creative Sound Blaster 16... the cool thing is that they are still in stock. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted August 6, 2004 What about those AWE32's or AWE64's? They're the same as the SB16, but with additional wavetable synthesis. And that's not an ISA card :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Murdoch Posted August 7, 2004 See if any of the methods on this page (and utilities linked from it) help any. http://www.gginc.org/post5-1.html 0 Share this post Link to post