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leileilol

DOSbox 0.70 released

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YES

features:
- faster
- video compatibility (hercules, 256-colors in windows 3.1, etc)
- faster
- faster
- faster
- faster
- auto core for total idiots who think hi-end game x runs too slow on their pentium 4 2ghz because they didn't read the readme on how to configure cycles
- faster
- faster
- it's roughly 1.88 times faster
- faster

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leileilol said:

YES

features:
- faster
- faster
- faster
- faster
- faster
- faster
- faster
- it's roughly 1.88 times faster
- faster

Holy crap. These are the nine features I've been waiting for for years! I figured they were too obscure and nobody else wanted them!

Now I'm especially looking forward to the end of Friday.

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This would be super awesome if I still had my floppy drives. Ah well... off to the grey area for me.

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I think I'm going to test this on Tyrian! ^_^

edit: Holy shit it is fap worthy. I CAN PLAY ON THE HIGHEST SETTING AND IT WORKS! (yes, wild mode not Pentium mode)

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Can it play Vanilla Doom 1.9 under XP with sound?

Or GTA London, i used to be able to run the DOS version and somehow it didn't check for the prescence of GTA being installed

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deathbringer said:

Can it play Vanilla Doom 1.9 under XP with sound?


yes

dosbox is a complete emulator, it ain't no gay stupid broken vdmdumbsound 'compatibility layer'

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Now my geek friends will throw away all their porn!

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Technician said:

Can't wait. No seriously, I'm itching to go on a BLOOD binge.

Yes, finally I, as well, can finally play Blood!

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Antidote said:

I wish DOSBox came in stereo.

Uh it does. SoundBlaster 2 is the setting I believe.

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leileilol said:
features:
- faster
- video compatibility (hercules, 256-colors in windows 3.1, etc)
- faster
- faster
- faster
- faster
- auto core for total idiots who think hi-end game x runs too slow on their pentium 4 2ghz because they didn't read the readme on how to configure cycles
- faster
- faster
- it's roughly 1.88 times faster
- faster

So is it faster or what?

Actually, it is. doom2.exe runs much closer to the speed it once did on my Pentium MMX back in the day, whereas in previous versions it was much closer to 486 speeds. In fact, it could probably run even faster, but this was a quick test without fiddling with the configuration.

And for what it's worth, users of 64-bit operating systems running in compatibility mode (e.g. XP x64, Vista, most 64-bit Linux distros) might still find a 32-bit build slightly faster. At least I did, which I attribute to dynamic translation being enabled in the 32-bit version but not in the 64-bit compile...

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Am I doing something wrong? When I load Doom 2 it seems to be going slower than a 386. What's the correct settings?

Edit : Discovered the problem. The front-end program I was using was setting the CPU Cycles to some retardedly low setting. I'm just using DOSbox directly now and everything runs great. I can even play Blood at full speed. Awesomeness.

Edit 2 : Oh god the pixels, I can see them.

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udderdude said:

What's the correct settings?

A relatively powerful computer setup.

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AndrewB said:

Uh it does. SoundBlaster 2 is the setting I believe.


I know it does, but that is not what I meant. I guess it was bad joke. Trying to combine boombox and DOSBox was indeed a bad idea.

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I think it's funny after the auto-core and auto-cycles setting was made default people discover they can run their protected mode games now even though 0.63 and 0.65 already could

lol

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Well, on my P3 laptop I can play Quake (!!) without any slowdowns so yeah it's faster.

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