Yeah, this is why i'm asking. Make sure that you use something like winimage to "write" the image on the floppy, not just transfer the files. You can ensure that the floppy is correctrly written if you actually try to boot from it in virtualbox. Not the image file as you've already done, the actual …

1) Can the 486 boot from any other floppy disk? 2) How do you "expand" the image to the disk?

The games you describe are the only kind I still play, I just can't go through learning a million things to play a game anymore. Probably I'm getting old 😀 btw the video you posted is a Brix-like game, one my favorites back then

Considering as a fact that... Tr3vor42532 wrote: It wasn't this slow before, I would recommend a surface scan with scandisk or even better using the manufacturer's utility to identify potential fatal problems

Now that you explained in more detail, in my opinion and from a business point of view, virtualbox (or similar virtualization software intended for this use such as vmware)+winxp is the correct way to go.

Maybe try nGlide in case there is a (highly probable) difference in performance? Haven't done any comparison myself, just saying...

I read that you've tried other emulators, but a) just to make you've tried this solution also b)out of curiosity why it wasn't suitable for you a setup with for example virtualbox+ms-dos doesn't provide a solution?

Cool, that's progress and from what i saw at nGlide forum there's also a suggestion from the developper. Hope that solves it!

If it doesn't work even with a windows 98 boot disk for example, then you should also look at cabling

From what I understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong, this setting isn't clearly explained and this is just my experience) - glide=true requires a real voodoo card present or a glide wrapper such as nGlide - glide=emu emulates it (and is slow as expected) Having the game working in emu mode …

As he says it's "set to give me 8mb of RAM", it does not seem that would fix the problem. I wasn't being smart here, just not sure if by "RAM" the topic starter meant just "memory" or the RAM parameter for EMM386. It's not common for people to specify specific amounts of EMS memory (not to mention …

All retro-computing things I find in US ebay seem more than overpriced compared to prices in EU ebay's (I live in EU, it's my primary searh area). On the other hand, I can't find everything I want within EU limits and I end up paying for overpriced items + ridiculous shipping. I mean OK, I would …

Are you sure that you've set EMM386 with the RAM parameter? I would bet my money on no 😀

Since you're interested in having the most conventional memory available for some reason, let's straighten up something: it doesn't really matter what you replace with what or how many drivers you load, as long as they get loaded into upper memory and not conventional. In some of the screenshots you …

Try the /C parameter to see what is taking up so much conventional memory. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your configuration files, on the contrary, so maybe it's the core of dos 7? With this configuration in dos 6x you should be able to have more that 615KB free

It's definitely possible, I recently wanted to checkout something and connected with teamviewer. I had in mind that I might not get any image via teamviewer, but to my surprise dosbox and a game was showing correctly. I have no idea if output setting has to do anything with it but anyway in my …