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freedos 1,2 it' out (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 06.01.2017, 16:36

> Why should be DOSEMU2 better than Win32?

Win32 is presumably going away, riding off into the sunset. Latest Win10 needs a late-model P4, which is (AFAIK) the last of the 32-bit only cpus.

Also, Windows is proprietary while DOSEMU is Free, which means it should (in theory) be easier to download, modify, redistribute, etc.

> BTW how DOSEMU2 performs on 64b Linux? Is it faster than DOSbox?

Like I said, I haven't tried it yet. But the very first bullet point mentioned in the latest prerelease (from last August) says: "KVM is now enabled by default on 64bit builds. A huge speed-up!".

EDIT: Anything is faster than DOSBox, it's a software-only emulator, intentionally portable (SDL-based), so AFAIK, there was no effort to add any x86-specific speedups there at all.

Complete thread:

• freedos 1,2 it' out - iw2evk, 05.11.2016, 09:42 (Announce)
  • freedos 1,2 it' out - marcov, 05.11.2016, 19:03
  • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 05.11.2016, 22:06
    • freedos 1,2 it' out - Laaca, 07.11.2016, 14:33
      • freedos 1,2 it' out - alexfru, 09.11.2016, 08:35
      • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 26.12.2016, 19:03
        • freedos 1,2 it' out - iw2evk, 27.12.2016, 13:43
          • freedos 1,2 it' out - Laaca, 27.12.2016, 17:36
            • freedos 1,2 it' out - iw2evk, 27.12.2016, 18:01
              • freedos 1,2 it' out - rr, 02.01.2017, 22:29
            • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 31.12.2016, 20:16
              • freedos 1,2 it' out - RayeR, 02.01.2017, 18:40
                • freedos 1,2 it' out - tom, 03.01.2017, 13:07
                  • freedos 1,2 it' out - RayeR, 05.01.2017, 18:54
                    • freedos 1,2 it' out - tom, 06.01.2017, 18:07
                • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 03.01.2017, 23:52
                  • freedos 1,2 it' out - RayeR, 05.01.2017, 18:57
                    • freedos 1,2 it' out - Rugxulo, 06.01.2017, 16:36