Comment by haunter

2 hours ago

>install DOSBox for Mac

Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one.

Nowadays the three most popular one would be DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure, and DOSBox Staging

https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x

https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed/

https://www.dosbox-staging.org/ https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging

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HelloUsername  2 hours ago

> there are DOSBox forks, most popular one would be DOSBox-X

Straight from the article:

> there are actively developed alternatives like DOSBox-X

thaumasiotes  2 hours ago

> Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one.

What do you want to be "interesting" about dosbox?

  • badsectoracula  5 minutes ago

    Last time i checked (and DOSBox hasn't made an official release since then) the vanilla DOSBox isn't able to run the game i made for an MS-DOS game jam a few years ago[0] because it doesn't implement RDTSC properly (that the game uses for timing). All currently developed DOSBox forks work properly.

    Also the forks add some additional niceties, e.g. DOSBox Staging has some very nice CRT filters that basically make games look almost like the real thing (i have some actual CRTs to compare). DOSBox-X has a GUI to setup options while the emulator is running which is very convenient.

    [0] https://bad-sector.itch.io/post-apocalyptic-petra

  • haunter  2 hours ago

    Read what the others offer

    GUI config, load games from zip and image files, controller support, save states, various sound, graphics, and network enhancements etc.

    There is more to this than simply being a DOS emulator.

  • parl_match  25 minutes ago

    > What do you want to be "interesting" about dosbox?

    Quality of life improvements? Expanded (experimental) hardware support?