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The Nvidia Shield...running Windows

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First post, by arkanis

Posted on 2013-08-23, 01:57

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My question is: would it be better to run games by installing Windows98/XP in Dosbox and playing them that way, or would it be better to install Bochs 2.5.1 and put Windows 98/XP inside that and then run games? I'm curious about speed and stability. I just ordered my Nvidia Shield, so I can't test it out yet, but I am sure there are some who have Nvidia Shields here.

Either way, I am going to keep DosBox on my android device...I have many DOS games that will be great on it.

Reply 1 of 1, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2013-08-23, 05:32

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My experiences with Bochs have been, well not positive for the most part. :XD: It feels like the bastard child of a hardware virtualization program (like VMWare or Virtualbox), and an emulator (like DosBox). I find virtualization programs are better for running Windows stuff (VMWare in particular is actually quite good for Win98), and DosBox is better for DOS stuff. Unfortunately, I don't believe you can really get any sort of x86 virtualization software on non-x86 platforms.

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