dosbox-x VS SBEMU

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...

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.

I quoted from the README: https://github.com/joncampbell123/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.

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 from GitHub or dosbox-x.com

What about FreeDOS?

FreeDOS with SBEmu is really nice for an instant DOS machine on real hardware:

https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU/releases

SBEMU is a game changer. You can now have sound-blaster support through emulation. It's not perfect but works surprisingly well (https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU)

DOS emulation is not a very battery-efficient way to play '88-98 games on the go, so projects like these seem to cater to that specific need, letting people run DOS natively. The Toshiba Libretto was a nice, small machine, but finding one in good condition is super hard. Toshiba Portégé was another, but after Pentium-II models, they took away the OPL3 card in favor of something more Windows-friendly (AC97), which doesn't have good DOS drivers. Now there's SBEMU (https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU), which can emulate SB/SBPRO/SB16 on top of newer PCI-based sound cards, including AC97 ones, solving that problem. Now it's possible to have sound on a Pentium-II, III, M and Atom machines running DOS, like a Sony Vaio P.

I am not familiar with the sound chip inside this laptop, but i recently discovered SBEMU, it may not be relevant, but it offers another soundblaster emulation option (for the correct hardware).