DOS and Windows emulation and gaming
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(06-08-2020, 02:34 AM)Wizzard Wrote: I tried Recalbox on PBP, but I think the best system to emulate on PBP is DOS and maybe Windows, because of its form factor. We have a keyboard, what is all we need for DOS games and dont need any additional gamepad.

I installed Dosbox and later Dosbox SVN and the games run very well (using the latest Auyfan's Ubuntu 20.04 with KDE Plasma)

Tried Bolo, Tomb Raider, Quake, Duke3D and some older games.

I had to set Dosbox to scale to full screen and enable openGl and also tweak number of CPU cycles that Dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond. When setting to 100000, all the SVGA games run smoothly, but not so fast, so I also added frameskip=1.

It was even possible to install Windows 98, but it does not run stable. There are still some problems after booting so it is not usable yet. If anyone was able to install and run Win98, please let me know, how to do it.


If you want to run Windows games, just use TwisterOS, it has box86 and wine, you can even run modern games with it, I got Guild Wars to run with barely any problems and Worms Armaggedon to work totally ok, Steam support is not yet here but it'll be here in the future... I think TwisterOS is the way to go for the pbpro in term of gaming... n64 emulation and PSP emulation is working as well...
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DOS and Windows emulation and gaming - by Wizzard - 06-08-2020, 02:34 AM
RE: DOS and Windows emulation and gaming - by pcx - 02-12-2021, 08:48 PM
RE: DOS and Windows emulation and gaming - by Idaho - 02-13-2021, 04:46 PM

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