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86Box: Why Not Pentium III?

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Re: 86Box: Why Not Pentium III?

#101
They need to stop adding features and start completing features. Get accurate instruction cycle counts for all the CPUs up to and including the Pentium Pro. Be more clear on what is happening when you disable cache in the bios for platforms that allow this. Just saying that it reverts back to interpreter mode seems false. It allows me to run very fast clock CPUs with no slowdown. It's doing something different than just disabling the dynrec. I still just use PCem every day instead though. I trust that code way more than 86box mainly because of the machine window with the history graph and seemingly way more reproducible behavior in terms of performance. 86box is so wonky.

Socket 8 Pentium pro 200 is just universally great for everything. Disable cache and move down to 150 and you can run older stuff quite well with no hyper speed. I have a bunch of old system presets I use every day. I got a win98se setup that is usually socket 7, super 7 or socket 8 for most stuff. It has 4 55GB VHD drives mounted to it. It's great. Every DOS game is just there. Bunch of Windows software ISOs too. Got a bunch of 2gb dos compatible disks and every DOS version installed and ready to go. I'll toy around with all the OS/2s sometimes too, very cool system.

But please, just polish what is there!

Re: 86Box: Why Not Pentium III?

#102
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ego, and a lot of emulation devs have straight-up social problems. IE "do not play well with others". I've been following the 86Box project from the sidelines and seems to be one of the few projects that actually handles people issues well.

You ever go back on the PCem forums and see the old posts where battler would request completely ignorant things from walker? I beg to differ on 86 handling anything well. The constant PCem smearing to the point where walker just left from all the stress. I consider 86box a patchwork mess. They might strive for accuracy but I don't believe there is a full understanding of the original code.

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