Well, the game must be run in DOS. A few days ago, I found a video player called Mplayer which plays a video in DOS, so I made a bat file to run this player first, and then the game. Just like this; mplayer.exe intro.mp4 game.exe I'm not sure whether this is another better way.

I am going to play a video at the beginning of a game, but really don't know how to do that. Allegro supports FLI/FLC format by itself and AVI format by its addon library, but I can't find both. There is one program called Videomach that creates FLC video, but the created file is so huge(duration 3 …

My computer is Corei5(3GHz, 4CPUs), 12GB RAM. My working VM is Ubuntu, 2Cpus, and 2GB RAM. My game uses 10% of CPU and 1.3% of RAM in VM. When I run the cross-compiled game in DOSbox, it is really slow and slow.. - Does this uses the same amounts of CPU and RAM as the case of Ubuntu in DOSbox, too? …

Thanks for your answers! I really appreciate them all. But, I am still now sure what is really assigned to my case.... Let me explain my situation. As DOS is really slow and uncomfortable to work, I am coding and make build for both Ubuntu and DOS using DJGPP. My ubuntu vm has 2 cpus and 2GB ram, …

When you develop a program, it uses some amount of CPU, RAM and accesses hard disk frequently. These are normal phenomena in programming, thus nobody worries about these issues. But in dos or embedded programming, this is very important, cause it can decide the entire performance of the program. So …

Thanks for your advice. My goal is to code a program which sends and receive packets manually, so I need dev env

Then what about watt32? It is really network library for c programming. Could you explain to me how to use it now? I am building my program using djgpp in dosbox.

Hello, everyone. Now I am going to develop some simple applications to get html pages from web server, ping to other hosts using C. These applications must be run in FreeDos and Dosbox. Can anyone let me know which library should be used for Dos network programming? I know there are Watt32 and MTCP …