Whenever I see a DOS thread, I like to remind people of eXoDOS, one of the most impressive archival efforts of every DOS game ever. Complete with manual scans, extras, and all neatly sorted in a launcher.
DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
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Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#12The fact that this has DOS host support is pretty wild to me…
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#1386box is also great, especially for retro PC gaming support. I can run Windows 98 with a Pentium 233 MMX and Voodoo3 on relatively modest hardware. (AMD 7840HS) https://86box.net
Also PCem, which is has a faster dynamic recompiler and supports a few more hardware configs afaik. But hasn't been updated in a couple of years.
There's also UniPCem, which I think is a fork/port of PCem, and more recently updated. But I haven't tried it.
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#14The fact that this has DOS host support is pretty wild to me…
Other than “because we can”, which is great, is there a use to that?
For example could you run DOS 7 apps on a DOS 5 host that way (taking slowdown and hardware needs into account)?
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#15One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes.
In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries.
Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use since not much had really changed.
I think it was with Windows 8 that it finally stopped working. My supervisor, in charge of intern program, started stressing after none of the built-in compatibility options worked.
I immediately thought of DOSbox, and sure enough, it worked like a charm. For the next couple years I was there, one of the first things all new devs did was install DOSbox and it gave me a smile every time.
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#16One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes. In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries. Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use si…
Can you tell me what RPG is? I assume a language that runs on mainframes??
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#17One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes. In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries. Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use si…
I have a DOSbox story as well. A customer requested an emergency change to some firmware that was built for an old 8051-based platform. We had a single instance of the compiler from [redacted] available on a PC that was left in a closet for a decade or so.
The compiler maker was still in business but wanted 15 years of extortion-level "retroactive support" payments to let us move the license to a newer machine, and I could hear the old one about to fail. Thankfully the protection scheme was the old type that locked the compiler to the MAC address of the host PC.
We copied the compiler over to a DOSbox instance and spoofed the MAC. Worked like a charm.
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#18One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes. In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries. Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use si…
Can you tell me what RPG is? I assume a language that runs on mainframes??
Report Program Generator, an IBM language from 1959 designed as an alternative to using punch cards.
From a glance ... unlike COBOL which was invented in the same year, it does not seem to be widely hated - possibly it's even well-liked. But since it is a proprietary language exclusive to IBM it is quite unfamiliar outside their silo.
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#19One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes. In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries. Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use si…
Did this retailer start with an "O"? Ran into a similar situation myself
Re: DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
#20Someday, when everyone is trapped in some strange vr future, this will be used to allow them to relive the computing of the 80's and 90's.