First post, by SieBoi
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First of all let me explain my usage of dosbox, as programming i haven't started something yet however i have few plans and for gaming im not really into 3d things, doom is the 3d as it get for me and the rest is late 80s and early 90s, so i don't have too much use for 3dfx glide stuff. Also what got me into it was actually the fact that it works in 16:9 and nothing else.
Im not an expert on dosbox, not a really newbie but not an expert either. I know svn daum is long abandoned (believe me even at the time downloading it from some sketchy korean site was an enough for me to understand its long abandoned) however i never noticed anything off with it. of course it sometimes completely break on some games however all the time its because im using it 16:9 and when i fix it back to 4:3 its working again.
So can anybody tell me what is so wrong with it? Anytime when somebody mentions SVN DAUM on the forum people lose their... well.. Everybody is saying its buggy and abandoned but what is that buggy part? I mean as updates goes dosbox getting its updates slowly but surely so i don't miss on too much new things. I know SVN DAUM get its latest update on 2015 but how much bug fixes happened since?
Im not saying these to insult dosboxes development, im genuinely curious. What is so broken about SVN DAUM and what are the better alternatives that support 16:9?
Also since im here mine as well ask my other questions:
Why does dosbox uses "dos 5.00" and not "microsoft's 6.22" or "ibm's 7.00"?
And what language dosbox written in and is there an any chance for porting it to windows'es own command prompt like modern visual studio console programs (ofc we may need to trim down graphical interfaces)?
Im just a curious fella!
Thank you for reading this mess.