DOSBox, DOSBox, DOSBox
August 10, 2009
Posted by: gruso
That’s right, to the power of three. Three new videos, multiple games within each. Press the Back button and return to normal life, or hit the read link and see how deep the Pickle jar goes.
Dark forces looks nicee.
by guizm August 10, 2009 at 1:25 pmHoly Cow! Guess what I’m going to download when the pandora comes out…
looks like dosbox… any chance of us seeing good ole warcraft 2?
by keaft August 10, 2009 at 1:53 pmN.B. On the forum thread, Pickle says that this is the Pandora running overclocked at 850 Mhz, with DOSBox set to: dynamic core, MAX cycles, 22050 sample rates.
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49010-anyone-for-dosbox/page__view__findpost__p__746060
by Shadowcat August 10, 2009 at 1:57 pmDark Forces! Time to find the box and cd in the basement! π
by r00tw00t August 10, 2009 at 2:01 pmI would love to see The Elder Scrolls I – Arena and The Elder Scrolls II – Daggerfall
by Knop August 10, 2009 at 2:23 pmI read 486 and 3.1 is maybe… So this leaves out Age of Empires I requiring
# Pentium 90 or higher processor
# 16 MB RAM
# Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 3
# Local SVGA bus video display (with 1 MB VRAM) ?
I know the obvious answer is NO… But I’d like kinda ask… It’s my first game… It sounds like the pandora dos box can run JUST before my first game… Sigh π
by Giepi August 10, 2009 at 4:24 pmDon’t mean to spam but… I read some people asking for warcraft II… What about this (looking) nice project called Wargus? Never tried, but it looks like an easy way to play Warcraft II on the pandora WITHOUT dos box’ed headache!
by Giepi August 10, 2009 at 4:39 pm@Knop: me too, although Arena needs like 15000cycles to run at a good speed and Daggerfall needs 20000cycles. I think there is a possibility for Arena but I don’t think we will ever be able to play Daggerfall at a decent speed…
by Dragons_Slayer August 10, 2009 at 4:59 pmDark Forces may be the limit of DOSBox, but QEMU and WINE could eventually be fast enough to run games that require up to a 200mhz Pentium. But that’s a ways off.
by fischju August 10, 2009 at 5:17 pmAge of Empires I was a window was it not?
by keaft August 10, 2009 at 6:21 pm“Dark Forces may be the limit of DOSBox, but QEMU and WINE could eventually be fast enough to run games that require up to a 200mhz Pentium. But thatβs a ways off.”
by blub August 10, 2009 at 7:00 pmBullshit, QEMU would have to emulate a complete operatings system.
And WINE will NEVER(!!!!) run on the Pandora, since it isn’t X86-Architecture.
What are the prospects for Dune 2 and X-Com?
by pepper August 10, 2009 at 7:39 pmOh my god, do you think Dungeon Keeper might be runnable? This would be so awesome…
by DerUngeduldigeWartende August 10, 2009 at 7:53 pmBlub, this has already been discussed and Exophase seems to think that it’s possible.
http://forum.openhandhelds.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1088
by TJSomething August 10, 2009 at 8:06 pmBlub, you’ve completely missed the point. WINE is x86-only only because it doesn’t do processor emulation – it’s job is to implement the OS system calls portably. If Qemu is used to do the x86 emulation, and hands off the system calls to an *ARM-native* WINE then it doesn’t have to emulate the OS at all.
Note this is only an *idea*, nobody knows if it’s feasible yet.
by pelrun August 10, 2009 at 8:15 pmFPS back then just isn’t like it is now..
by kloplop321 August 10, 2009 at 8:56 pmMadelman said he got Windows 95 running on the GP2X with Bochs and FreeDOS.
Still, that doesn’t mean it’s worth doing on the Pandora for gaming. You will get a slightly faster slideshow.
by atraintocry August 10, 2009 at 9:07 pmNice, I would love to play the 7th guest on pandora π
by Hybrid August 10, 2009 at 9:09 pmIt worked on a 486sx with 4MB and dos 5.0, more videos pleeease !
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/48726-qemuonarm/
by fischju August 10, 2009 at 9:48 pmIt has been discussed a lot, I’m pretty sure Laurent did get a beagleboard for his idea. But we probably won’t have anything by Pandora launch, and DOSBox is performing surprisingly well.
Hey, someone mentioned my favorite old game. I would really love to see the 7th Guest game emulated! Best game of its time!
by dj August 11, 2009 at 10:14 am@blub and others
by Zeno Arrow August 11, 2009 at 10:53 amCheck this out:
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/QemuWork
http://darwine.sourceforge.net/
There’s your proof it can be done.
Nice, realy nice!f
by blub August 11, 2009 at 7:43 pm