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First post, by hajime

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Hi dudes.
Yesterday I was trying an emulator of Mega Drive for DOS, called KGen.
I could load it, but it was SO SLOW! (And my computer is not the best
in the World, but it has 1'73 Ghz, which certainly should be enough).
I read in other thread something about "cycles"...does that have something
to do with speed? Which file should I change, and what should be the
changes in order to get nice speed?

Thanks a lot, mates!
ありがとう!!!!
😉

Reply 1 of 15, by wd

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You read the readme, didn't you? Also browse through dosbox.conf,
especially the comments there.

Reply 2 of 15, by Wintermute

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What original operating system do you use?
I guess it would be better to find a Mega Drive emulator for your native system instead of running an emulator inside another emulator which is sure to slow things down a lot.

Reply 3 of 15, by hajime

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Oh, I am sorry, I am using Linux and don't know where to find dosbox.conf.
What should I change in it?

Yes, I have a Linux emulator but it is not as good as KGen...That's why I want to use KGen, which I find awesome.

Thanks for ur help, mates.

Reply 4 of 15, by wd

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> I am using Linux and don't know where to find dosbox.conf

See the readme.

> What should I change in it?

See the readme.

Reply 5 of 15, by hajime

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Hi mate,
I hope I don't upset you, but...could you tell me where to find the readme?
Cuz in the DosBox for Linux installed, I can't find it because sometimes the
installation path is set by the program so I don't know where it is.
In the webpage of DosBox I couldn't find it either...would you mind in
sending it to me, in a PM?

Thanks! 😎

Reply 7 of 15, by MiniMax

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$ find / -name 'dosbox.conf'-ls
$ find / -name 'readme' -ls
$ find / -name 'readme.txt' -ls
$ find / -name '*whatever*' -ls

$ find /some/where/else -name 'something' -ls

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Reply 8 of 15, by hajime

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Hi friends,
thanks a lot for ur kind help, and sorry for being a bit annoying with so many questions - I just don't want to ruin my PC... 😅

I could do it but probably cuz my pc is not good enough I lost a LOT of fluidity.
Thanks again!

Reply 9 of 15, by wd

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? Doesn't sound like it worked out well.

Reply 10 of 15, by hajime

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Hahahaha! No, it didn't...but I think it is my pc's fault. 😖

Reply 11 of 15, by MiniMax

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Did you find the readme file? And the config file?

What did you do? How do you know that you actually did want you intended to do?

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Reply 12 of 15, by Wintermute

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Hi, you might try out Gens, an excellent Mega Drive emulator, which also supports Linux:
http://gens.consolemul.com/index.shtml

I guess, you have to compile it yourself to obtain a Linux executable; I myself use Windows, so I can't help you directly.

Reply 13 of 15, by hajime

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Hi dude!
Yeah I could read those 2. I knew I could do it since the framerate and the
cycles were changing when I pressed F8,F11,F12... but it didn't come out
too well 😦
However, thanks for ur help mate.

Reply 14 of 15, by hajime

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Cool!
Let me have a try...although I am not sure if I will be able to install it successfully. I will try at once! 😉

Reply 15 of 15, by wd

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> and the cycles were changing when I pressed F8,F11,F12

Just for information: that's where reading through dosbox.conf comes
handy because dosbox can do that automatically if told to (that is
cycles=auto). And the core setting matters as well (core=dynamic).

But Wintermute is correct, this is one emulation layer too much 😀
Anyways it should work.