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Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) (Users)

posted by Arjay, 29.06.2010, 08:46

> > I'm not saying pure FreeDOS is bad, it's not. But some things will just
> > work better with some virtualization going on in the background.
>
> Examples + evidence please.
 Ok I'll bite. On modern PC's lacking hardware emulation of SBPro, GUS etc, non-native DOS applications like ScummVM do a much better job than if someone trys to run the same games in "pure" DOS.

Older DOS demos, e.g. Amnesia by Renaissance has excellent music by Ryan Cramer but is a fairly difficult demo to get to run (and it was when it came out). It is a good example of a demo that runs fine under DOSBox but not so well "native".

Demos/Games which are GUS only etc. PC's were the only ports are USB, the hard disk is SATA etc.

So I am sorry but there are times when (on modern faster hardware in particular) when applications like DOSBox is the right option vs trying to run something native. There is however a place for "both" which is why I recently recommended to someone who was using DOSBox with an "application" that we sometimes we ran it native as well since he often needed to quickly boot up enter/reference some data and booting "native" allows that to happen.

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