First post, by Kerr Avon
DOSBox is brilliant because it does what DOS gamers want; it boots into a clean, DOS compatible environment whenever you want, and you can alter it's settings for whatever each individual game requires (there might be DOS games that don't yet work on it, I don't know, but at worst DOSBox is still very good).
And a version that gave us a clean, working (and fast booting*) Windows environment would be brilliant too. It doesn't have to be related to DOSBox, of course, just a similar sort of program, but how close are we now technology-wise to being able to run games at full speed on a WindowsBox type program? I've been trying to get a Windows program to run, with no success (The old Timeshift demo does not start) and I don't want to alter too much on my PC as every other PC game I want to run on it runs fine, which made me wish for a DOSBox type emulator for Windows games, one where I could tell it to emulate different versions of Windows, different GFX cards, etc. So is the lack of speed of modern PCs (relatively speaking) the only barrier to a WindowsBox type program, or are there reasons why we might not see such a program in the near/mid term future?