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Originally Posted by dosraider
you will need enough compy muscle
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Yeah I thought of this solution and I'll probably go with it.
How much RAM should I determine for the Virtual machine running Windows XP and Dosbox? Also, how many MB of disc space would such Virtual machine require?
I intend to use this VM on more than one computer, that's why I want to find out appropriate settings. And I also want to include the info in the guide (in the first post).
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Originally Posted by hunvagy
And you know what, all this hassle just to have save states is overkill, and UTTERLY USELESS.
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You're probably right. It would probably take me for ever to set up a MS-DOS based VM that will run every single DOS game. But I believe many older DOS games will work on VM with MS-DOS installed - without any additional settings.
Setting up such system is pretty easy: you install MS-DOS in VPC, install VPC04 additions, mount folder with the game as a CD and choose to run VPC in 640x480 screen resolution. The whole set-up process takes up only 5 minutes - and you've got save states in full screen.
I say it's worth to take 5 minutes and try if your game works directly in MS-DOS before setting up Windows XP with DosBox. I would only use the latter option for the games that don't work in MS-DOS.