I installed XP specifically for a stepping-back-stone to be able to run some older games. I'm currently running 7 as my main OS, but the PC is old enough that emulation through DOSBox is too slow for my tastes.
In other words, DOSBox runs the game pretty choppy.
EDIT;
In my opinion a Pentium 4 class PC should be more than enough to emulate that era's DOS games, on paper, and from a pragmatic viewpoint.
What I think has happened is that while DOSBox has improved in compatibility, it has become less optimized (or less efficient) at running on in-between machines (way newer than DOS era, way older than current), leaving the thousands of people still running single-cores out in the cold.
That is unless there's a single-core, or Pentium 3/4, optimized build I don't know of.
Yeah, yeah, everyone and their Grandma has a multi-core... maybe, maybe not.
What I need in the end is feedback from someone who's either succeeded, or failed, at running this game on a P4 to chime in. I'm hoping there is....
A pre-emptive thanks to anyone who can help me find a speed limiter that works in XP. Because I think the problem is speed-set. I won't let me go past the "-28.0" setting. I assume that the closer to "-100" one gets the slower the timing?
And... yes. I've tried the DaggerXL port, but it's really in a way early alpha stage. It's not playable, and like most ports, it probably won't be a genuine experience.