View Full Version : DOSBox 0.71 Released
Jorpho
07-30-2007, 03:13 PM
Not the giant leap forward that 0.70 was, but nonetheless, Huzzah!
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
norkusa
07-30-2007, 04:35 PM
I tried messing around with DOSBox before on my Mac but I'm too stupid to figure it out. I always got stuck on the part where you have to select a hard drive space for it to read/write to.
kaedesdisciple
07-30-2007, 05:21 PM
I tried messing around with DOSBox before on my Mac but I'm too stupid to figure it out. I always got stuck on the part where you have to select a hard drive space for it to read/write to.
I messed around with it on my PPC Macs. I got it to work, but it was too slow to be useful. BTW here are the specs of each machine:
G4 1.2 GHz
1.25 GB RAM
OSX 10.3.9
Dual Processor G5 2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
OSX 10.4.9
Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong, but it runs like molasses.
Jorpho
07-30-2007, 10:12 PM
0.70 introduced a remarkable speed improvement. Perhaps you were using an older version?
oesiii
07-30-2007, 10:38 PM
DOSBox .70 works great on the newer Intel Macs but its a pain in the butt to configure. None of the frontends are up to snuff yet. I usually just fire up WinXP in VM or Bootcamp and run DOSBox that way, works everytime.
Glad to see a new version to try out.
Trebuken
07-30-2007, 11:03 PM
Tried it out with D.O.G. front-end under Windows Vista (64-bit). Works great.
Speed issues are adjustable as long as you have a newer machine. Probably depends on the game though.
SeverThe7th
07-31-2007, 10:02 AM
ive got .63 still.
I hope they make dosbox compatible with Magic Carpet 2 and the sound compatible in master of magic.
Edit: Hmmm.. apparently they did :)
Jorpho
07-31-2007, 10:06 AM
ive got .63 still.
I hope they make dosbox compatible with Magic Carpet 2 and the sound compatible in master of magic.
:hmm: Maybe it already is compatible with those games. But it will be kind of hard for you to tell if you keep using 0.63, though, won't it?
norkusa
07-31-2007, 11:25 AM
DOSBox .70 works great on the newer Intel Macs but its a pain in the butt to configure. None of the frontends are up to snuff yet. I usually just fire up WinXP in VM or Bootcamp and run DOSBox that way, works everytime.
Yeah, I'm using an Intel iMac but I do have a partition for XP. Is the PC version of DOSBox really that easy to set up? No need to mess with that imgmount like in OSX?
Kitsune Sniper
07-31-2007, 12:39 PM
Yeah, I'm using an Intel iMac but I do have a partition for XP. Is the PC version of DOSBox really that easy to set up? No need to mess with that imgmount like in OSX?
Nope, I don't even set up hard drive images, though it's possible. All I do is copy a bunch of files to a folder, tell DOSBox to treat that folder as a hard drive, and start playing. :)
oesiii
08-01-2007, 09:40 PM
Nope, I don't even set up hard drive images, though it's possible. All I do is copy a bunch of files to a folder, tell DOSBox to treat that folder as a hard drive, and start playing. :)
Ditto. Real easy to get working on the PC side. There also has been several good gui-based frontends on the PC side, sometimes it take a little tweaking to get a frontend like dfend to work with new, updated versions of DosBox but the forums are great for getting config tips.