DOS ain't dead

VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 24.05.2008, 17:29

Well, I tried VirtualBox 1.6.0 but it seems to me little bit crappy. It sometimes crashes. Some basic things like keyboard emulation don't work well - e.g. in DN/NDN I cannot walk directories with arrow keys because it types numbers instead cursor moves. To check sound emu. I 1st tried mpxplay without drivers. It successfully detected SB16 and play but sometimes it hangs keeping a block of samples play in endless loop. Then I installed SB16 drivers. 1st it hanged on soundacrd detection but after reboot VM it installed OK. I tried to run few demos but only Boost by Doomsday worked. But it was significantly slow in some scenes and it was played in very small window, even on fullscreen it was not resized. 2nd Reality didn't find this soundcards. Other demos hanged... Doom plays only sfx, no midi/adlib and hanged after few second of play.

So simply said, this emulator is a big crap for running DOS things. DOSBOX or DOSEMU do the job much better.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - rr, 22.05.2008, 18:08 (Announce)
  • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - Japheth, 23.05.2008, 09:03
    • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - RayeR, 24.05.2008, 13:50
      • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - RayeR, 24.05.2008, 17:29
        • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - Japheth, 24.05.2008, 18:54
        • ViralBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - DOS386, 31.05.2008, 03:46
          • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - rr, 31.05.2008, 12:36
        • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 01:34
          • available for DOS ? - DOS386, 04.06.2008, 02:54
            • available for DOS ? - rr, 04.06.2008, 09:34
              • available for DOS ? - Japheth, 04.06.2008, 09:43
                • available for DOS ? - rr, 04.06.2008, 09:59
                  • available for DOS ? - Japheth, 04.06.2008, 10:08
                    • available for DOS ? - rr, 04.06.2008, 10:31
                      • available for DOS ? - Japheth, 04.06.2008, 10:52
                      • nonsence & snap - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 00:53
                        • nonsence & snap - Steve, 06.06.2008, 01:13
              • available for DOS ? - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 16:20