I've been hearing about CP/M for ages, but I've only used under the Amstrad PCW emulators. If I understood right, that OS was a precursor of DOS and CP/M programs could be run in several computers as far as they didn't include graphics.
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This is how I find what I like to emulate, like some wired setup computer wise or software wise - I read old PC Magazines from 80s and then I hunt software / emulator to check it out. :smile2: For example, this kind of magazines: https://archive.org/search.php?query...r%3A%221980%22 |
CP/M coming up after DOS? I guess it's possible. I used 8 bit computers before PCs, and sometimes I find hard to reconcile that PCs were a thing as early as in 1981.
I also like to browse older magazines... I was incredibly happy when I found all numbers of Micromania -the local computer magazine- had been preserved as PDFs. However, when I tried using them as a guide for must-try games I had to stop. It's incredible how many of the games they show in the news section ended up in development hell. As for the reviews, they are often hit and miss. They tended to give very high ratings, and to ignore obvious problems with major releases. |
Not CP/M as os, but one made for IBM PC.
I grow up with 8 bit computers as well, and I was reading about PCs, but nobody I knew had one, as they were way to expensive for my country of origin. Once i moved to Amiga, I still have one at home and emulate it a lot. Only thing I was not successful installing/emulating was AIX for 386. I have OS, but it is very hardware specific and I was not able to install it. I do have one server to play with (Aix 5.3) and we have 2 servers in production (AIX 7.1). It is my favorite *NIX system, right after FreeBSD. |
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Never heard of AIX before... to be honest I've only used Unix / Linux builds a few times, and Ubuntu was the one I preferred. Unless you count Android, of course. Also never tried OS/2. From the included instructions in some games, it sounds difficult to set up. As for Amiga, it was like the holy grail to me in the 80s and 90s. I was green with envy whenever I saw Amiga screenshots in game magazines. I had to learn a little bit about the system, but I was very happy when I finally got WinUAE and Amiga in a box working. Lovely system, a pity CBM let it fall behind the PC. |
Well, made me look into it, I remember reading about it. Here is Wiki, if we can trust it.
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http://classicwb.abime.net/ Sorry, didn't want to get this far off main topic here. I like what you doing here, please continue. :) Are XT and AT next? :) |
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All I needed to "get" Amiga emulation is that higher Kickstart doesn't mean higher compatibility and a few other notions about the system. As for doing more PC machines, I don't know, really. I'd like to, but I don't feel much affinity to machines I haven't heard of / tried in real life. We'll see. |
OK, for my next trick you're going to need a high-end PC... does anyone remember "The System 16 Arcade Emulator"? It was one of the first arcade emulators I ever used, together with Callus and DOS versions of MAME.
https://i.imgur.com/mH44XsV.png I requires a P133 CPU, an S3 Virge (it crashes with lesser videocards, don't know why) and to set your PCem window as "resizable". As for what it does, it emulates certain SEGA arcade titles, such as "E.SWAT", "Shinobi" or "Golden Axe". Back in the days, it didn't get any much cooler than this. Personally, I never could get enough of "Out Run". https://i.imgur.com/oZVbjO9.png This should also run under DOSBox, but the last time I tried it ran way too fast. My guess is that it relies on VSYNC to calculate the right speed on faster systems. |
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WinUAE 0.8.8 should work fine on pcem. :smile2::smile2: Wonder if you guys know about LaunchBox, emulation front end. At some point its creator was bored and created DOS version of front end. It works really great on DOS computer... https://forums.launchbox-app.com/fil...ecial-edition/ |
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EDIT: It's pretty decent and lightweight. The main disadvantage is that it won't let you run files from your harddrive directly, as other shells do, instead you need to create a profile for every program you want to run. Still quite good. https://i.imgur.com/cmdVbRE.png For my emulated DOS machines I prefer a free Norton Commander clone called UFO: Universal File Operator. |
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