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Velduanga · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:42 am Post subject: OHR on DOS emulators?

I don't want to start a Win vs. Mac war here, but does anybody here use OHR through a DOS emulator on a different OS? I'm intent on purchasing a new comp(ahem Laptop), but I wish to continue working on OHR on it. If I chose a Mac, well I don't know if I can use OHR on it(Hence the question). If I choose a PC, I get to use OHR but slightly hinder my computing needs in real life (sorry I'm a Mac fan). Anyway, if anybody has any answers to that I'd be glad to hear it, but remember my first sentence people.
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knight_00000 · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:42 am Post subject:

On the FAQ on the Hamster Republic Homepage, James says that several Linux and Mac emulators have been confirmed to work, just some buggy speed defects have occured
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Blazes Battles Inc. · **I'm a chimp, not a** Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 505

The Macintosh thing is called 'Virtual PC.' I have no information on it, though.
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Aethereal · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject:

There's also a Windows version of Virtual PC. I have successfully gotten Game.exe to run in it (with sound!), but I haven't been able to run Custom.exe in it. :\
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SDHawk · **Silent One** Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 80

I've used the PC version of 'Virtual PC'. It works, but it runs extremely slow in most places. There's also a weird problem with text boxes where you can't see them when your editing them until you have 2-3 lines typed in. I haven't used it extensively so there's probably more problems. In theory, it might run usabley if you have a faster computer (and more memory would probably help too), but there's no way to be sure (unless there's someone around here with such a thing). Not to mention it's very expensive.

Anyway, I'd reccomend just getting a real PC if you want any hope of running the OHR properly... but then, I'm biased towards PCs sooo...

Edit: Argh, Aeth beat me to it >.< To run custom.exe run game.exe first then custom.exe

Squall · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

Heck, I'd just get a G5 or something and buy a little Win95 computer for the OHR.
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Aethereal · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject:

The OHR will run on an old 25-cent 486, but it doesn't run at optimal performance. It DOES work, though, so you can grab one of those if you have a copy of Win95 or 3.1 (ahh, 3.1, how I miss thee...)
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Ahh, 3.1. Actually, we had a special networking version; it was Windows 3.11, but our computer was so bad it didn't have the memory to run that! This was the computer we had before getting the one we have now. I loved it. Everything was done from DOS, it was great. We used Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS as well, so much better than the visual-based wordprocessors now...

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:48 am Post subject: bochs

You might want to try bochs http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

A couple years ago I tried bochs on my old Linux computer (a K6-2/350) at work. It worked without any glitches that I could see, but was too slow. On a modern machine it might be fast enough. I am going to try it on my Penium III 800 and see how it works there.

There is also a MacOSX version of bochs, so I would be curious to know if that works for anybody.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:17 am Post subject: dosbox

Has anybody tried http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ ?

I just stumbled upon it yesterday, and was please to see that it runs GAME.EXE on Linux even better than DOSEMU. I was able to get sound support to work too. Unfortunately it is still slower than a Windows dos box, but it is still quite cool-- and on my Dual Athalon 2000 at work it runs better than full-speed :)

One thing I noticed was that most other DOS games run full speed in dosbox. I think the reason GAME.EXE runs so slowly in DOS emulators is because of the direct hardware access. In a ture DOS environment, direct VGA access is the fastest and most efficient possible method of display, but in an emulated environment direct access turns out to be slower.

Anyway, I would be curious to hear how dosbox works in Windows, as I haven't gotten a chance to test it there yet.

Now I am all happy because I can play my old DOS games like "Gobliins 2" and "God of Thunder" on my Linux box :)