old dos/windows program crashing

Alexander Nicolaysen Soernes alex at thehandofagony.com
Mon Sep 17 08:26:43 CDT 2007


On Monday 17 September 2007 15:10:39 Kuba Ober wrote:
> > I obviously tried WINE then, but it didn't work,
> > however, dosbox works with it (though slow, obviously)
>
> Wine will not be any faster. Dosbox doesn't emulate the CPU (at least when
> run on x86 machines), it's your old good VM environment, just like if you
> ran DOS under win9x.
>
> Cheers, Kuba


Isn't the whole point of DOSBox to emulate an old computer with all the 
necessar stuff like SoundBlaster 16?  Last I checked it had a setting to set 
the number of emulated cycles.


Alexander N. Sørnes



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