What kind of CPU is similar to DOSBox running at 10000 or even 16000 cycles?
You can't compare it to a CPU.
So just set it until the game plays fine.
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Well then how many MHz would a program inside DOSBox report then?
doesn;t match either with a normal CPU.
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Well this is no help I was expecting processor name or at least numbers.. =/
It doesn't work that way, listen to Qbix the DOSBOX Author 😀
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If you want an unofficial way, you could try running TOPBENCH at those cycles to see where it puts the CPU emulation.
http://dosbenchmark.wordpress.com/
That said, it's still unofficial and perhaps not accurate enough for your purpose. But one of the general ideas behind TOPBENCH was to help DOSBox users peg their speed.
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The reason why it works the way it does is because while different x86 ASM instructions consume different numbers of cycles on different CPUs, on DosBox ALL ASM instructions consume exactly 1 CPU cycle, so it's not really comparable to any real CPU, and since DosBox basically emulates these instructions as fast as it can, the speed can vary widely from computer to computer (though it's much more consistant when you're dealing with modern hardware, rather than the Pentium 4-era stuff I used to run DosBox on 🤣).
10000 cycles ~ 10 MIPS
1+1=10
For gaming benchmarks I would recommend pcpbench, which was done by a long dead German gaming magazine called PC Player. Similar to 3dmark this benchmark renders a (very simple) 3d-environment, which makes it a pretty good tool for testing Pentium-era DOS game performance.
10.000 Dosbox cycles (dynamic core) yield a DX4/33 rating with this benchmark.
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