First post, by s3freak
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- Newbie
Seeing that there is no dedicated section on this forum to introduce myself, unlike another forum that is for a specific series of video games, I thought I would create a new thread in this section for that purpose.
DOSBox is one of my favorite "virtualization" tools from the mid 2000s for running DOS games, as well as other retro software such as Windows 3.1. I understand that DOSBox is primarily for DOS games, but I also use and customize it for other purposes tool. I also use other virtualization tools such as VirtualBox and VMware for running more modern games and software such as Labyrinth on Windows XP.
I don't have that much experience with programming. However, I did learn it during my academia where I definitely have enough experience to at least patch -p 1; ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; make install, etc. Therefore, some of my programming related posts may be noobish to you.
I have been tweaking the DOSBox S3 Trio graphics controller to suit my needs and is one of the components of DOSBox which is of greatest interest, hence my username, S3Freak. I did actually own a real 1MB S3 Trio64+ graphics card that came with one of my previous PCs in the late 1990s. Although it was thrown away, I won a very similar one, 2MB S3 Trio64V2/DX, on eBay yesterday. I also have a real genuine Sound Blaster 16 which is now more of a collectors item as I no longer have ISA slots!
With the rise of virtualization, I no need to have so many separate PCs where I can combine many into a few with such technology. I used to have a PC that worked well with retro software until it broke because the capacitors had leaked significantly. Because of DOSBox and other virtualization tools, I now no longer need for a dedicated retro PC.
By registering on this forum, I hope to be able to share my patches, ask questions and answer others, as well as helping other DOSBox users including non games.
