04-01-2005, 10:33 PM
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Originally posted by Koen+Jan 4 2005, 10:55 PM****| QUOTE (Koen @ Jan 4 2005, 10:55 PM) | ******QuoteBegin-xoopx@Jan 4 2005, 11:49 PM
dosbox is so demanding because its emulating the soundcard, the graphics card, the cpu, the whole shebang of an old p.c -at a lot of accuracy (accuracy = slower) and its all done by your p.c's cpu - the 3d card doesnt help like it probably does in a ps2 emulator
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Why can't it just USE the soundcard, the graphics card etc etc instead of EMULATE it... :blink: [/b][/quote]
its mostly because the games of the time were specifically programmed for certain types of hardware, and wont work with modern ones.. or even old ones that were built after the game was made. those old games are very fussy. later dos games that used a lot of memory could be a real pig to run even on the machines they were meant for! with dosbox they aim to have a complete p.c emulated so that you can run it on a mac or whatever future computer you want to port the emulator to. you`ll be grateful in 10 years when you have a 200 ghz pc running linux version 24322354 or something
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