Hi, basically I want to know what I'm doing wrong, i follow the steps laid out by the guides, I can mount my hard drive easy enough and access the directory where the game is at (quake) but it just doesnt run. I type in quake.exe and nothing happens, then after a minute or so the log window in the back starts generating hundreds of "Illegal read from xxx" statements.
Any ideas on what I'm failing to do? 😕
quake needs a fpu, dosbox doesnt emulate that
Don't be so hard
wrote:quake needs a fpu, dosbox doesnt emulate that
Wrong. DOSBOX emulates FPU! There must some other bug. But I think that the Quake would be probably too slow anyway (just guessing - I did not try it).
Mirek
I think Quake needs Pentium instructions. I am not sure whether DOSBox emulates Pentium instructions.
quake should work in the cvs, so maybe wait for
the next version (and yes, it IS slow 😀)
wd
just wanted to add that it doesn't require Pentium (found in quake's .txt files)
well it uses some fpu instruction only present in pentiums 😀
I added as wd pointed out.
Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!
Most likely they wanted to be sure that you have a
fast machine by restricting the game to a pentium
(or at least recommending one...).
Dynamic core did work pretty well with this game btw.
wd
If you are talking about quake1 it sure as hell did not require a pentium.. I remember playing quake2 with a pentium 100, and that was quite a bit later.
It does need a floating point unit, but other than that a 486DX-2 >50MHz should be fine. Cant remember about visual quality issues though.
But I do think there are a lot of better ways to play quake now than playing the original in an emulator just browse around the web and you'll surely find some neat stuff 😀
wrote:I think Quake needs Pentium instructions. I am not sure whether DOSBox emulates Pentium instructions.
ouch! ok, why run quake if it requires a pentium cpu ? why not run glquake or x port ? 😁 :joyjoy:
Don't be so hard
Quake 1 ran on my ol' 486 DX4/100 and on a friends DX2/66.
It works in latest CVS but it's sllooooow.
Mhm, The fast pace action games are quite slow when get more recent. heh. Some day we'll get it worked out eh?
Ieremiou
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Helping Debug DOSBox.
Quake works on my 386 DX 40 MHz with 387 coprocessor
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