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DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on from the get-2-for-a-ddos-attack dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Homebrew Coder Pate has released a DOS Emulator for the Raspberry Pi. Originally released for the Nintendo DS and Android, the emulator currently can emulate a CPU: 80486 processor, including the protected mode features (for running DOS4GW games) but without virtual memory support. The emulation runs at a speed around that of a 20MHz 80486 (which equals a 40MHz 80386) machine. It has support for Super VGA graphics, Soundblaster 2.0, Memory, USB keyboard and mouse. Perfect for playing old classics such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Theme Park."

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  1. Re:DOSBox? by DarkOx · · Score: 4, Informative

    DosBox works pretty well on ARM. It comes with lots of baggage though. You have X server and everything else sucking up the PI's limited memory (granted most Dos games and applications are probably expecting 16MB top to work with but...) It looks like this runs on the metal; so its probably faster.

    If you don't need or want to do any multitasking and you want the very best retro-gaming experience this might be a nice choice. That said yes it a bit of a wheel re-advent; but so was DosBox, DosEMU existed for what a decade before it? Nothing wrong with having more options.

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  2. Re:"A lot"? by RepoOne · · Score: 5, Informative

    -VOGONS
    -GoG
    -4chan /vr/ (retro games)
    -Abandonia

    All active DOS gaming communities.

    There are certainly more than 1000 people playing DOS games today.