26-09-2005, 05:50 AM | #1 | ||
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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?
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26-09-2005, 06:46 AM | #2 | ||
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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 |
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26-09-2005, 09:39 AM | #3 | ||
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26-09-2005, 12:19 PM | #4 | ||
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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.
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26-09-2005, 03:59 PM | #5 | ||
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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.
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26-09-2005, 05:58 PM | #6 | ||
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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...
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27-09-2005, 03:58 AM | #7 | ||
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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.
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