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DOSBox vs. Qemu running win98

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First post, by meme

Posted on 2005-11-21, 00:38

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I'm running GNU/Linux (Athlon 2500+). I've installed DOSBox ver. 0.63 and Qemu 0.70. For fun, I made full win98 installation with qemu. Qemu has incomplete sound support, but in DOSBox sounds work ok.

Now, when I run win98 with qemu, and try to play DOS games, they run just smooth! A lot faster than with DOSBox! Qemu running win98 is in speed comparable to a pentium 2, even in DOS mode.

Qemu version I'm running is full GPL'd code, so I thought you could look at it, if you could use something of it.

DOSBox in general is fine, I ran Cannonfodder and Assault Trooper just ok, but Liero and Tapan Kaikki run slow compared to Qemu.

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[url]http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/[/url]

Reply 1 of 3, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-11-21, 00:49

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Been meaning to compare qemu to DosBox as far as speed goes but really haven't gotten into it.

Are you using KQemu too?

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Reply 2 of 3, by meme

Posted on 2005-11-21, 01:06

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I'm using only the GPL'd part, 'cause proprietary kernel modules do only irritate and are hard to get working (proprietary nvidia drivers are missing too.)

So, I run full in userspace. Machine is Athlon 2500+, 512KiB L2, 256MiB RAM, 266MHz FSB.

Comparing DOSBox and Qemu is meaningful, because both do full hardware emulation.

Reply 3 of 3, by wd

Posted on 2005-11-21, 11:58

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Well then use Qemu.

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