First post, by Kerr Avon
I love DOSBox, it's fantastic for running old games, and I have a few questions which I hope you can help me with;
1. Are there different DOSBox downloads, according to their abilities and their respective speeds (i.e. if they have a certain background process removed, which makes DOSBox run faster, but means it will only run with some games)? Thanks to DOSFreak's signature I know of;
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/SVN_Builds
but is there a more detailed list, please?
2. Is there a sort of speed test utility that I can run in DOSBox, to see how fast each version of DOSBox runs on my PC (or is such a speed test built into DOSBox)? That way I'd know which version ran fast enough, to help me squeeze any extra % of speed for a demanding game (i.e. Carmageddon).
3. DOSBox had been at it's current version (0.74) for at least two years or so (I think?), I know work is progressing on it, but why hasn't there been a 'stable' (recommended) release since 0.74? I'm not complaining, of course, as 0.74 is great, I'm just surprised that there's not been a new stable release since then. I would have thought that there would have been at least a recommended SVN download version every few months, like there was with the XBox 1 version of XBMC.
4. Was it never made possible for DOSBox to use 'virtualisation' (I think it's called, where the program uses a real CPU to simulate a similar sort of CPU (i.e. both x86), instead of using brute force emulation) to speed up DOSBox on real PCs? I assume not, as (as far as I know) DOSBox can't do this on a real PC, but was this ever even theoretically possible? I ask as this is (I think?) what happens in a virtual machine, such as Virtual PC.
Anyway, many thanks for DOSBox, it's a great program, and thanks to anyone who reads/answers this thread.
