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[WhiteWolf04]

Howdy all! heh... okay. After some mindless tinkering on my computer several months ago, I installed DOSBox and VDMSound onto my computer so I could play some old games. (ah... nostalgia...) Anyway, a friend of mine found an old game of his that he wanted to play again and asked me to get him an emulator. Now for the actual question: I know that you need VDMSound to get sound from your games, but does VDMS need DOSBox to play the games?

[swiss]

No. They are two completely different programs.

VDMSounds is used to play games under Windows directly (looks at least like it) and DosBOX is a whole emulator with shell and all the other stuff. I would always recommend DosBOX for most games run better in it. For those games that do not, well, use VDMSounds. I installed both on my machine ...


cheers,

swiss

[Rogue]

Originally posted by swiss@Sep 26 2005, 01:46 AM
No. They are two completely different programs.

They are not that different, as DOSBox is based on VDMSound, but final use of the programs is different.

I too recomend DOSBox if you have fast enough PC.

[The Fifth Horseman]

VDM can be used for those games that you can manage to get running under Windoze. It runs X-Com Apocalypse at a normal speed, while DosBox needs a very powerful piece of hardware to achieve the same.

[WhiteWolf04]

I was wondering, 'cause I seem to only get sound from my few DOS games through VDMS. DOSBox doesn't seem to do it. I just want to make sure I'm not having my friend put more programs on his computer than he needs to have.

[Danny252]

In dosbox you need to have the dos games setup to use thje values dosbox is emulating. In the old days, they had soundcard setup...

[Mr.Snuggles]

I can run most Dos Games on my old 2001 PC. Most games from this site i can run perfectly. But a little over the edge.