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It is possible that someone else could use the exactly same nickname. If you want assurance of your identity, you are recommended to login before posting.) Login. Dosbox 0.74 Mac OS XIts main use is to run old DOS games on platforms which dont have DOS (Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux FreeBSD Mac OS X). DOSBox also emulates CPU:286386 realmodeprotected mode, Directory FileSystemXMSEMS, TandyHerculesCGAEGAVGAVESA graphics, a SoundBlasterGravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games. You can re-live the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that dont run on your new computer. Its almost as good as the Amiga version, yet the adapted Amiga soundtrack is even better, using samples instead of MIDI sounds. Theres a bunch of stuff that simply was not running too well before to be playable, that its really worth coming back again on what this new release can do and what this changes for the Pandora. He bundled it together with a nice little launcher called DBGL (using java, though), that makes it super easy to tweak several options for each game one-by-one. Its interface may be a little crowded but it works just nicely on the Pandora screen. Note that all screenshots following are coming from my Pandora. Until now it was far from being straightforward to install and play CD games on DOSBox and DBGL removes most of the pain. You click on the Add Game Wizard button and it will first ask you for the name of the game, and whether it requires any installation or not. The name field is used to download information about the game in case you are online at the time. The other selection will define how complex the process will be. If it requires no installation, you will simply have to provide the path to the executable file and the setup file, and thats it. If installation is required, youll need to select or mount the install mediumdirectory and let it go through the installation process DBGL should automatically detect in the end that the installation is over and let you go on to complete the addition of your game. This effectively brings 3D acceleration to the DOS games that did support it at the time (they are only a few of them, but as we will see below, it can make a huge difference). The problem lied with the internal coordinates support in glshim. Up until now, glshim was using texture coordinates in 2 dimensions, which is enough in most cases, while the geometry in itself is stored in 3 dimensions as you would expect. But OpenGL and OpenGLES actually can use up to 4 dimensions (if you are interested to learn more about why it is so, I believe this post on gamedev clarifies the situation ). Once PtitSeb added the appropriate support in glshim, textures started to display correctly with OpenGlide. I had always been used to the way Soundblaster sounded like, and to me at the time it was clearly an inferior solution to the Amiga sound capabilities. But with MT32 sound well the difference is not so clear anymore. It does sound MUCH better than you typical Soundblaster audio card MIDI. While the MT32 standard progressively disappeared with the introduction of CD audio and General MIDI, it was widely supported in the 90s by numerous DOS games. Note that turning on the MT32 emulation will hit your CPU hard, so its not recommended to use it on games that are already not running too well with DosBox. But adventure games, for example, will benefit from it and it should show not too much of a gap in performance. As a good indicator, if your game runs fine with 3000 (emulated) cycles in DosBox, theres a good chance turning on MT32 will not make it much worse. Note that it does not mean that it will be used by all games without doing anything. For most titles you need to run the setup file and again and ensure that you select Roland MT32 or a similar annotation during the installsetup process so that the game will try to support it when starting up.
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