I really loved the oldskool demos back in the pre-1995s. However they were "real" DOS demos were programmed in assembly/C and used EMS/XMS, etc.

I've tried running some demos under DOSBox and they worked. However they ran really slow, more like slide-shows. This is because DOSBox is emulating the hardware for a 486 and soundcards.

Am thinking whether it be possible to create/develop a Virtual Machine specifically to running old-skool PC demos. A virtual machine that can interpret the assembly/low-level-C-code and do some on-the-fly/just-in-time translation for "todays" PCs running under WinXP, etc.

PS: PC demos as in the scene.org demos (
ftp://hornet.madtracker.org/mirrors/hornet/de … /s/solstice.zip
and it's patch update
ftp://hornet.madtracker.org/mirrors/hornet/de … 96/s/solfix.zip
)