Dosbox?

[Drewus]

Hey guys,

Just wondering if there is a DosBox emulator created for the GP32 yet? and if not, is the GP32 capable of emulating it?

Reason being that i noticed you can use those mini keyboards with the GP32, and thought they would be great for use with a DosBox port.

 

[Blah]

A friendly warning:

No, there isn't a dosbox emulator. There probably never will be. Dosbox doesn't even run right on a PC. And the GP32 really isn't capable of emulating it. (It could, but VERY slowly, you'd wait days between frames).

So now, fasten your seatbelt, release your anti-flame umbrella, stand gaurd and ready yourself for the massive flaming you will get becuase we're like that.

 

[Drewus]

A friendly warning:

No, there isn't a dosbox emulator. There probably never will be. Dosbox doesn't even run right on a PC. And the GP32 really isn't capable of emulating it. (It could, but VERY slowly, you'd wait days between frames).

So now, fasten your seatbelt, release your anti-flame umbrella, stand gaurd and ready yourself for the massive flaming you will get becuase we're like that.

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Prepare myself for flames, due to asking a simple question?

I didn't demand nor imply that the community needs to get working on a Dos emulator. I asked a simple question of "is it possible".

So flame away, if that is what makes you happy.

 

[skeezix]

Asking questions is good; however, you'll be flamed mercilessly for asking the most common question asked, that gets asked every other day and that the search function will turn up results for Some people will answer wll, others will telly ou to use search, others will flame you until you explode

jeff

 

[Captainbubby]

Well, to lighten up the post I'll ask a question that I'm 100% sure has never been asked before.

Is Amiga Emulation possible?

 

[trooper]

The search function.

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?act=S...hlite=%2Bdosbox

Just a couple of results.

Trooper

 

[c0ncept]

look on the bright side you got a polite and informative answer before any flames got through, lucky!

 

[wraggster]

hmm there may be a Dos emu that may be portable

Quzar released a port of Bhole for the Dreamcast

The sourcecode and info is here --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/bholedc.shtml

True it doesnt run a lot of games but wouldnt it be cool to say you have a Dos emu on the GP32

 

[sensible GP32]

i was gunna close this thread but since wraggster has raised that issue, what you guys think?

 

[c0ncept]

other than actually having it, what would be the point?

What might it be able to do, theoretically?

 

[Blah]

You could play old DOS games, which would be awesome.

 

[trooper]

There wasn`t really a hardware standard until later on, Was there ?.
Which would surely make it more difficult to do than it needs to be.

You had numerous gfx cards and various soundcard standards (adlib, Roland, GUS, SB etc. Oh i nearly forgot the humble pc bleeper.

Where would someone start. :blink:

Trooper

 

[Blah]

You would start at the beginning: Intel 8086 with no math coprocessor, a text-only graphics card, no sound, and 640k of RAM. And then build up from there.

 

[wildo2ne]

I'll tell you what good a dos emu would be

we could create a batch file of

START

dir /a/s/h

goto START

and just watch the directory listing all day long.......YAH!!!!!!!

B) wildo2ne

 

[trooper]

You would start at the beginning: Intel 8086 with no math coprocessor, a text-only graphics card, no sound, and 640k of RAM. And then build up from there.

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Without a keyboard, And you needed a sound card for joystick support.

Just curious, What (playable games) would it add to the ones we already have access to on other systems ?.

Trooper

 

[Squidge]

What platforms was Beneath a steel sky released on? I remember playing it on PC DOS and Amiga I think, but I don't know about other platforms.

 

[lizard808uk]

I think DOS intepreters are more likely to appear than an emulator such as DosBox, this has already been the case with Sarien and Scumm. (and that other LSL interpreter) I'd think it'd be great to play all those old Apogee games again, or even Colonization / Civ!

 

[trooper]

What platforms was Beneath a steel sky released on? I remember playing it on PC DOS and Amiga I think, but I don't know about other platforms.

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Seem`s to be originally released only on the Amiga a PC-Dos according to this site and others.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/versions/gameId,386/

Untill scummvm that is.

Trooper

 

[cozmic]

like i said before i have a Hewlett packard HP320 monochrome handheld pc which runs a DOS emulator perfectly!

The native OS is win CE 1.0


Games like ultima 3 etc etc. run perfectly. (Without sound though)

@ only 33mhz and only 3mb of work ram free!! (Hitatchi SH3)

 

[Drewus]

I'd just be happy if the thing ran Commander Keen, or any of the early Apogee/Epic games.........