DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support

Post by snvzz » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 5:06 AM UTC

joezydeco wrote: post #17

addled wrote: post #15

One 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…

Post by LeoPanthera » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 5:06 AM UTC

NikkiA wrote: post #13

mrbuttons454 wrote: post #3

86box 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.

Post by bni » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 5:35 AM UTC

haunter wrote: post #6

DOSBox has many many forks https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/DOSBox https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/wiki/DOSBox... Personally I use DOSBox Pure with RetroArch

Post by farseer » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 6:55 AM UTC

addled wrote: post #15

One 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…

Post by nunobrito » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

tetrisgm wrote: post #11

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.