kurkosdr wrote:

Barry_Purplelips wrote:

Again, 3D Game or not, there's no emulator capable of outperforming DosBox.

This is what i find perplexing. How its possible for a full emulator (DOSBox) to beat a virtualizer (VirtualBox) in terms of performance?

Books say that virtualizers (VirtualBox) beat full emulators (DOSBox) in terms of petformance.

You asked for an emulator, not virtualization, so that's what I recommended. Any virtualization software that allows native execution should be faster than DosBox, but on Win7 64bit, forget about DOS stuff.

Any virtualization software that allows native execution should be faster than DosBox

None allows native execution of system-level code.

Also make up your mind. Dos applications or games? Huge difference and performance isn't as important as compatibility...

kurkosdr wrote:

Barry_Purplelips wrote:

Again, 3D Game or not, there's no emulator capable of outperforming DosBox.

This is what i find perplexing. How its possible for a full emulator (DOSBox) to beat a virtualizer (VirtualBox) in terms of performance?

Books say that virtualizers (VirtualBox) beat full emulators (DOSBox) in terms of petformance.

DOSBox is not a full DOS environment. It is optimized towards running games only and does not emulate any part of DOS that is not needed to make games work. That's why it is faster than a full on virtual machine, it doesn't do anything it doesn't need to do so it runs the things that it does do extremely fast.