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posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 19.10.2010, 22:48

> > I completed the
> > whole demo without using the mouse (and under DOSBox too!).
> Yes, hard but possible :)

Keyboard is hard??? Not really. I know all the "pros" use kbd+mouse, but I don't see the appeal unless you really wanted super-duper accuracy, being able to turn on a dime, etc.

> > read on DOSBox's forum that somebody got a good speedup (of DOSBox
> itself)
> > with MS VS 2010 (but that hates Win2k and XP pre-SP2 unless you patch
> it).
> > You should nag the #dosbox (freenode.net) guys to provide you a build
> for
> > your netbook.
>
> Good, but still I try to avoid Dosbox where I can.

It's slow, I'll admit, but if it works, it works. There really was somebody talking about MS VS 2010 speeding up a lot. I imagine also a GCC 4.5.0 recompile would help your Atom also. But I dunno, can't test, haven't bothered trying to rebuild it on Win32 yet.

> An there is no windows
> on my netbook .

Right, forgot about that. You could try Slitaz Linux, only 30 MB liveCD, and their repository has DOSBox (0.73, which is one step behind but still very very good).

> Couple of days ago I had installed Ubuntu, so now you
> should say Dosemu ;-)

Assuming all the Ubuntu bugs don't bite you (sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=0).

> By the way, do you remember our talk about the... let me call it 'bios
> patch for the 320x240x8bit mode'? So it sounded like it is probably in
> plans or something? I don't really need it, just interesting, and I
> know that the lack of this mode is common to new machines.

It's a good idea, but no, I don't think anybody is working on it. AFAIK, only me and Eric knew about it, and I'm very clueless on some of that stuff, so Eric's idea that I should "test" (in the dark, so to speak) isn't very helpful. He's busy with real life, I guess, or maybe even he doesn't know how. I dunno, stupid modern computers and their incompatible modern crap! What good are they if they can't even work right or agree on standards or keep things simple??? Argh! :angry: And they have the gall to fight it out over patents when their crap ain't worth crap anyways. When will a good, decent architecture come out? Or when will somebody replicate the good enough "old" PC hardware so we can actually run "old" software and get real work done?? (I guess DOSBox is as close as we're gonna get.)

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