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dosbox-x
- Guide: Managing image files in DOSBox‐X · joncampbell123/dosbox-x Wiki
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Sbemu – Run your retro games with on board audio via Sound Blaster emulation
https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
em-dosbox: https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox
Does dosbox [in WASM] support SBEMU?
There's a note about fpemu= and 80 bit precision for dosbox emulation.
docker-dosbox: https://github.com/schneidexe/docker-dosbox/blob/main/Docker...
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Seeking Help to Preserve Rare WWII Database on Windows 98
Windows 98 apparently runs fine in dosbox (dosbox-x?). My dosbox install is locked on Win 3.11, since that's a better compatibility sweet spot for me.
Anyway, that should provide much higher-fidelity emulation than Wine, and is also easier to keep off the network, etc. Also, I guess it runs on Arm processors these days (since it's an emulator, and not a hypervisor):
https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
Wine is generally more convenient if it works though.
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DOSBox-X New Release 2023.03.31
I quoted from the README: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/
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How to play Touhou PC-98 games on M1 Macs via DosBox-X
2: Download and run DOSBox-X (Github Link). The version I use is 0.84.3. Unzip the file, enter the dosbox-x folder (not sdl2), and drag and drop the program to applications. When you first attempt to run the application, an error will say "dosbox-x can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software". To bypass this, go to the apple logo on the top left of the screen> System Preferences> Security and Privacy> General> Open Anyway> Open. It will prompt you to select a folder where it will run the emulation. Select the folder that you created in step 1. Once you are done, close the app.
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Playing an fdd file
take into account that's a PC98 game and not MSDOS one, is not the same, try to look some tutorials about it (I don't really know much about it), but you need to start in pc98 mode first some links: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues/1504 https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3APC%E2%80%9098-emulation-in-DOSBox%E2%80%90X
- DOSBox-X 2022.12.26 Release
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What is DOSShell, and how do I get to it?
DOSBox-X from GitHub or dosbox-x.com
Animator-Pro
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Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
I like to start up Dosbox-X or one of the virtual Amiga environments that comes bundled with Amiga forever. Definitely cozy.
More often I use some old application, like the nowadays BSD-licensed ex-Autodesk Animator. It is fun to figure it out and more fun than modern applications in many ways. I even bought an old used book about it and read cover to cover. Limited compared to modern graphics software, but "cozy" is a great way to describe the experience.
https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro
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I have a theory that UI has a major impact on how usable an art software is.
But I think very limited and objectively worse GUIs can be fun for inspiration and to get other styles. I love to play around with Autodesk Animator. The workflow is kind of awkward but being forced to always think ahead of what you want to do and compose images of small parts (because there are no layers and many other limitations) it becomes more like a fun puzzle/game to get anything done (and the resulting FLI files can be imported into Aseprite for more serious editing!).
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Resources for programs they used back in the 90s/early 00s?
Other tools may be a bit more lacking. Not sure if any reasonably modern version control system works. Graphics editors will be a bit old (but Autodesk Animator was released open source and is quite great really and no idea how fun sfx editors and other gamedev tools from last century are to use today.
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Recovered a bunch of .PIC files from old 5¼ diskettes recently. Forgot the program I used to draw them. Help!
Autodesk Animator can save and load PIC files. But it looks like your header is different from what I see in one of those I happened to have.
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Looking to see if a DOS graphic editor with 'Luxor' sample image can still be found today
Was it https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro ?
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The Life of MS-DOS
I took the time a few years ago to learn a bit about how to use Autodesk Animator (it was released with a BSD license some ~10 years ago and can be downloaded legally for free these days). Was really impressed with the GUI. Just press a single key to open the menu that begins with that letter, then the first letter of the menu-item you want to use. They managed to use only words that begin with unique letters while still making a lot of sense. Plus some other single-key shortcuts. And many, to me, unusual design choices everywhere, but it all makes sense and is consistent in a way that after a few hours I was not bothered at all by the fact that nothing was like a modern GUI, and there was definitely nothing about using more modern GUI conventions I can think of that would make it more pleasant to work with.
https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro
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You Don't Know Gif - An analysis of a gif file and some weird gif features
Wild guess is that a GIF without a color table would typically render using the default VGA palette back in the day? I tried to open it in dosbox in PictView but it displayed that GIF in grayscale (not all black at least!) (that application is from 2015 though and might not be representative for how real 1989-era applications would have done?). Then I tried the "crop" tool that comes with Autodesk Animator, because I know the application itself only supports GIF87a in 320x200, but crop also said the image had unknown version.
What are some alternatives?
dosbox-staging - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
winevdm - 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows
rust_dos - Rust DOS : Creating a DOS executable with Rust
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
Dos64-stub - small stub that allows to run "bare" 64-bit PE binaries in DOS
ao486_MiSTer - ao486 port for MiSTer
fantasy - A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers.
MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
abrash-black-book - Markdown source for Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
docker-dosbox - Run DOSBox in a docker container
build-ia16 - Scripts to build IA-16 GCC toolchain, Ubuntu source .deb's, & FreeDOS binary packages ― fork of https://github.com/crtc-demos/build-ia16 • mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16 • Ubuntu binaries at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16/releases • source mirror at https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16