No one brought up "supposed to look" until mothergoose729. Don't pull me into any discussions about artists intent or nostalgia. I'm just talking technical. I'm only clarifying this because my post keeps getting quoted and then "supposed" is used in related replies... A lot of DOS games probably …

They were and are pretty perfect. They just don't scale the same as modern displays and aren't confined to the fixed pixel grid issue. What we have now is flawed by the square fixed pixel grid issue. DOS games took advantage of the fact that you have analog range in the shape of the display... Not …

Out of curiosity, have you noticed this behavior with any other game? Not that I can really remember maybe... Ok maybe Ultima 9 exhibits this behavior but then there are also a whole lot of other variables that get introduced when you are testing something in Windows 98. But sticking to dos things. …

Pick a "slower" CPU. On my 5900X I toyed around with this months ago. The winchip2 CPUs do good. Also, disabling cache in the BIOS of the emulated computer and then picking a faster MHz CPU. These all seem like counter productive things but try them out. Edit: basically you want to pick a emulated …

Nice, that's good advice. Yeah Pentium 4 era. Sound chip is definitely something I've thought of but I ain't asking for much just general sound blaster stuff. Software rendering is pretty much my nostalgia in dos, I've never used glide even though I was envious of it. In Windows general opengl or …

Here is a semi complete list of games I used to play and would like to be able to run now. - Strife (with SoundBlaster) - All the Civ games up to 4 - Carmageddon 1 & 2 - Worms - WarCraft 1 & 2 - Duke3D & Blood & Shadow Warrior - & more I think you get the picture. It's a mix of games that I don't …