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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 28.06.2010, 07:07

> > > The game Tyrian refuse to run at all, giving runtime error :-( .
>
> I will try that and what others advised, this game is worth it.

Yes, it's good, probably works fine in DOSBox, lemme check their compatibility list:

http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=1733&letter=T

Also see this:

http://digg.com/pc_games/OpenTyrian_Play_Tyrian_without_needing_DOSBox

BTW, seriously, DOSEMU is pretty native speed using V86 (in 32-bit mode, at least), so if you ever decide to try Linux, try that, much much faster than DOSBox (although the latter has much better sound support).

> I play xDuke port on my winXP machine mainly, it is nearly 100% same old
> duke but running whole in memory with graphic acceleration. Would be cool
> if someone recompile binaries to do the same for Dos on modern computer.

The DOS version can indeed be recompiled with OpenWatcom, but there will almost definitely be no hardware acceleration (as only few old cards supported DOS anyways), but look into MESA if you're really curious. (Not sure if it works with OpenWatcom, but at least old 6.x supported DJGPP, I think.)

> DOS extender wiki link you provided is somewhat fullfilled with them, but i
> think i have got the whole idea, and DOS32A is included with Watcom which i
> already installed, so i will look into that.
OpenWatcom uses an old version of DOS/32A. I have no idea why, I told them this a long time ago. Check the link I posted earlier, it has the latest from 2006.

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