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

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Post by Rinzler89 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:24 AM UTC

snvzz wrote: post #21

joezydeco wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Good for an emergency, but I'd make sure to calmly move to an open 8051 compiler. Because screw that awful vendor.

Why? Moving your project to another compiler for a one time change is creating needless work and potentially opening a new can of worms you don't want to deal with.

If you have something battle tested and you know it works then just stick with it especially that now you got the vendor out of the loop.

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

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Post by wiz21c » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:29 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.

FTwebsite: "Get the Full Release via Torrent (638GB)"

Ouch!

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

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Post by wiz21c » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:30 AM UTC

Nothing to do with rust, but this one, although much less wide tha DosBoxX, is impressive too: https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc

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

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Post by ale42 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:38 AM UTC

farseer wrote: post #27

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…

Shouldn't large enterprises requiring DOS go for a virtual machine instead?

Why? Performance reasons?

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

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Post by lofaszvanitt » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 8:53 AM UTC

Wow, I didn't know you can play old games with this. Very nice.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 9:08 AM UTC

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

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Post by AlexDragusin » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 9:12 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.

Thank you for this, been looking for Destruction Derby 2 and the one contained in this works like a charm, brings back some memories!

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

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Post by tetrisgm » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 9:14 AM UTC

wiz21c wrote: post #32

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.

FTwebsite: "Get the Full Release via Torrent (638GB)" Ouch!

There's also a light version that gets things on demand. But it's really a DOS museum as an archive. I recommend the larger one

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

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Post by AlexDragusin » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 9:20 AM UTC

wiz21c wrote: post #32

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.

FTwebsite: "Get the Full Release via Torrent (638GB)" Ouch!

PRO TIP: You could select in the torrent to only download the particular game you care about and work it out yourself, easy, just did it with Destruction Derby 2 and works great.

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

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Post by Rinzler89 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 12:30 PM UTC

wiz21c wrote: post #32

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.

FTwebsite: "Get the Full Release via Torrent (638GB)" Ouch!

>Ouch!

Being a data hoarder can pay off.