In a few months when I get back to the US and have my hands on my old desktop again I'm thinking about setting up a dual-boot with some variant of DOS, mostly for playing games and maybe for some programming. I'd really like to know what people think of FreeDOS and OpenDOS and if there is any reason to favor one over the other for different purposes.
1.2 Ghz Athlon
256 MB
VIA chipset
Geforce3 Ti200
Depends on what you want to use it for exactly.
For example (e)drdos has a very good msdos-compatibility (win311)
whereas freedos has nice tools/bootable cdrom.
Games should work fine with freedos.
Just remember that most soundcards won't play any sound in DOS.
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Or at least most of TODAYs soundcards 😀
Ok, let's say almost all PCI soundcards. Ensoniq and Creative earlier PCI sound cards have some compatibility... some buggy and crashy compatibility. Also, I remember that my Athlon motherboard had hardware compatibility with Sound Blaster (it had a VIA sound chip).
Unless you manage to buy a motherboard with ISA slots...
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Yeah, I have a VIA soundchip. Haven't updated the drivers in years. I've never had a real sound card anyway so it's not like I know what I'm missing out on. Is a real card really much better than what can be provided by the VIA chip or the emulation in DosBOX? It seems to me that having nice speakers with no card is better than a card with crappy speakers.
Not exactly, but if you plan using real DOS to play games and you have a sound card that it's not sound blaster compatible in hardware, you won't get any sound.
For emulation purposes, any sound card will do the trick.
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