Yes. 1.2 still doesn't emulate ADLib, MIDI or any of the more advanced Sound Blaster features. DOSBox emulates almost all SB-tricks, ADLib, ADLib Gold, Gravis Ultrasound Max, Roland MT-32 and much more...
Almost all games (atleast in the graphical adventure genre) uses ADLib/MIDI to play sound...
DOSEmu is a LOT faster than DOSBox, but it really sucks att emulating soundcards.. You won't get sound in many games in DOSEmu..
My biggest hope for the future is QEmu! Its emulation is so fast it's silly and it has support for many different CPUs and eventually it'll even be able to run MacOS X on a PC.:)
"WineX may be the final thing that convinces some Windows users to switch to Linux, which is what Linux needs right now."
No, what we need is more programmers, more contributing powerusers, more people willing to understand the importance of the Free Software model. We need quality, not quantity. Quanitity is just a bonus.
We welcome the normal users but saying that we need them is going too far...
Besides, anything keeping the XYZ23B3D.RAR, XYZ23B3D.R00, XYZ23B3D.R01, XYZ23B3D.R02-kiddies away from Linux is a good thing.
Once again, proof that most Gentoo users are completely ignorant to everything around them outside the install guide.
Actually, in this case I think he is right! I'm not a Gentoo-zealot, Gentoo has a lot of bad sides, but its init-system is really friggin' great! How many of you people who are praising BSD or SysV-init style have actually TRIED Gentoo's SysV-inspired dependancy-based init? Because it is based on dependancies instead of a hardcoded order it can start services in parallell, really reducing startup time.. It can be set to stop services that depend on "net" when you stop networking, then when you start networking again it will restart them. It has lots of other features too!
Moreover, he suggests that current Xbox games make use of Nvidia's proprietary graphics shaders and that Microsoft might have to license them to use them again.
That's what you get for using proprietary technology.
Interresting! So Dosbox's sound emulation is that much a bottleneck? Are we going to see your code in 0.62?;)
BTW, frameskip of 4 is usually just too noticable for me.. If I have to use frameskip of more than 2 I consider the game unplayable, it's too annoying...
Sorry for replying to myself, I just had to correct myself on a few things. I just tried the recently released version 1.2.0 of DOSEmu and it seems to work WAY better than the 1.0.x-versions I had tried before... Now if they just add adlib-emulation so we can get some music and I'm happy!;) Still not as easy as dosbox/path/to/program.exe, you still have to start the emulator, cd to the directory and run it, but at least it works now, and it's WAY faster than Dosbox on x86 machines...
Pretty fast? I have a dual Athlon 1.2Ghz and I can't even run point'n'click-adventures like Kings Quest 6 and Willy Beamish in Dosbox without having the sound stuttering and everything is painfully slow, even when there are almost no graphics-updates on the screen at all... The idea is very nice though, I just wish they could add (optional) VMWare/DOSEmu-like virtualization instead of emulating every single component of the system...
I really like the fact that I can do things like $ dosbox/path/to/dos/game/start.bat and it just works... Graphics, sound, joystick, mouse, everything... It will mount the dir/path/to/dos/game/ as C:, cd there and run start.bat... I'd love to see that work in DOSEmu!;) I also love the advancemame scale2x-support.. It almost makes the old games look good again..:)
Just too bad it's so slow it's almost unusable on my dual 1,2Ghz Athlon:P
Just because MS supports DRM doesn't mean that they are an evil company. Bear in mind that both MS and Bill Gates give millions of dollars to worthy causes round the world. In fact earlier this year The Bill Gates Foundation gave more money to the global fight of Malaria than the sum total of all the governments in the world.
Yes, that's fine and it's a welcome and needed contribution, but it doesn't make DRM any less evil...
First of all, if someone say "No, I'll just do it myself!", then he should had said "Ok!" just like he would had said to a guy, expecting her to be able to do it or she wouldn't had said so.
Second, and even worse, is calling her "Sweetheart" in this context. Sweetheart can be a nice thing to say to your beloved, but in this context it is a degrading, sexist statement of power.
I guess it still won't playback DivX, XviD, RealPlayer, Quicktime, OGG/Vorbis, AAC, OGM, Matroska, SRT/VobSub subtitles etc etc etc etc like XBMP and XBMC..
Why don't they give their customers what they obviously want instead?
BTW, No, I didn't read the article, this post is based on my previous experience with Microsoft.:)
Luckily I don't know about anyone who has gotten those warnings here in Sweden and I hope the Swedish ISPs will continue to be as liberal as in the past. Really, high quality (1,5 megabit/sec) moviestreaming (although pay per view) is one of the things Swedish ISPs use to market their services.. And there is a big VDSL competition among the biggest ISPs right now (Bredbandsbolaget, Bostream and Telia) getting more and more aggressive (you can get uncapped 26 megabit both up and down for $30/month).. I don't think they dare to get a bad reputation until that race is settled.. If one of the ISPs get a reputation for harrassing P2Pers they will just switch to one of the other ISPs.
On kernel 2.4 and earlier, you usually gave the X-server a negative nice-value to give it higher priority which lead to somewhat better responsivness. But the 2.6-kernel has a new rewritten scheduler (?) that detects if the process is interactive or not and handle them differently to make interactive apps more responsive while giving non-interactive apps more throughput. By renicing the X-server you foul the kernel to not make use of this and thus get a much less responsive X desktop. If you just compiled and installed the 2.6 kernel on a 2.4 distro that is not 2.6-ready you'll have to mock with the X startup-scripts to remove the nice/renice-stuff to make use of the great 2.6 desktop-features.
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Yes. 1.2 still doesn't emulate ADLib, MIDI or any of the more advanced Sound Blaster features. DOSBox emulates almost all SB-tricks, ADLib, ADLib Gold, Gravis Ultrasound Max, Roland MT-32 and much more...
Almost all games (atleast in the graphical adventure genre) uses ADLib/MIDI to play sound...
DOSEmu is a LOT faster than DOSBox, but it really sucks att emulating soundcards.. You won't get sound in many games in DOSEmu..
:)
My biggest hope for the future is QEmu! Its emulation is so fast it's silly and it has support for many different CPUs and eventually it'll even be able to run MacOS X on a PC.
"F-Zero GX just came out for the Gamecube last fall. Is that not "next gen" enough?"
No, that is current gen.
Here is a GIMP screenshot from 1997...
Just becouse 'teens take huge cocks up their ass' turns you on doesn't it mean it's ok to watch it.
Yes it is, as long as you don't pay for it.
"WineX may be the final thing that convinces some Windows users to switch to Linux, which is what Linux needs right now."
No, what we need is more programmers, more contributing powerusers, more people willing to understand the importance of the Free Software model. We need quality, not quantity. Quanitity is just a bonus.
We welcome the normal users but saying that we need them is going too far...
Besides, anything keeping the XYZ23B3D.RAR, XYZ23B3D.R00, XYZ23B3D.R01, XYZ23B3D.R02-kiddies away from Linux is a good thing.
What the hell kind of tongue do you have that can hit both ends of a AA battery?
;-)~
This kind of tongue?
Once again, proof that most Gentoo users are completely ignorant to everything around them outside the install guide.
Actually, in this case I think he is right! I'm not a Gentoo-zealot, Gentoo has a lot of bad sides, but its init-system is really friggin' great! How many of you people who are praising BSD or SysV-init style have actually TRIED Gentoo's SysV-inspired dependancy-based init? Because it is based on dependancies instead of a hardcoded order it can start services in parallell, really reducing startup time.. It can be set to stop services that depend on "net" when you stop networking, then when you start networking again it will restart them. It has lots of other features too!
Moreover, he suggests that current Xbox games make use of Nvidia's proprietary graphics shaders and that Microsoft might have to license them to use them again.
That's what you get for using proprietary technology.
Interresting! So Dosbox's sound emulation is that much a bottleneck? Are we going to see your code in 0.62? ;)
BTW, frameskip of 4 is usually just too noticable for me.. If I have to use frameskip of more than 2 I consider the game unplayable, it's too annoying...
I was not kidding, I was talking about DOSEmu's lacking soundsupport, not DOSBOX's... ;)
Sorry for replying to myself, I just had to correct myself on a few things. ;) Still not as easy as dosbox /path/to/program.exe, you still have to start the emulator, cd to the directory and run it, but at least it works now, and it's WAY faster than Dosbox on x86 machines...
I just tried the recently released version 1.2.0 of DOSEmu and it seems to work WAY better than the 1.0.x-versions I had tried before... Now if they just add adlib-emulation so we can get some music and I'm happy!
Pretty fast? I have a dual Athlon 1.2Ghz and I can't even run point'n'click-adventures like Kings Quest 6 and Willy Beamish in Dosbox without having the sound stuttering and everything is painfully slow, even when there are almost no graphics-updates on the screen at all...
/path/to/dos/game/start.bat and it just works... Graphics, sound, joystick, mouse, everything... It will mount the dir /path/to/dos/game/ as C:, cd there and run start.bat... I'd love to see that work in DOSEmu! ;) I also love the advancemame scale2x-support.. It almost makes the old games look good again.. :)
:P
The idea is very nice though, I just wish they could add (optional) VMWare/DOSEmu-like virtualization instead of emulating every single component of the system...
I really like the fact that I can do things like $ dosbox
Just too bad it's so slow it's almost unusable on my dual 1,2Ghz Athlon
Just because MS supports DRM doesn't mean that they are an evil company. Bear in mind that both MS and Bill Gates give millions of dollars to worthy causes round the world. In fact earlier this year The Bill Gates Foundation gave more money to the global fight of Malaria than the sum total of all the governments in the world.
Yes, that's fine and it's a welcome and needed contribution, but it doesn't make DRM any less evil...
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how many different ways are there to say "a-dobba dobba dobba?"
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First of all, if someone say "No, I'll just do it myself!", then he should had said "Ok!" just like he would had said to a guy, expecting her to be able to do it or she wouldn't had said so.
Second, and even worse, is calling her "Sweetheart" in this context. Sweetheart can be a nice thing to say to your beloved, but in this context it is a degrading, sexist statement of power.
Yes, but not DRMed files.
Poor rat... ;-(
No. Spel.nu (noun) is either Game.now or Games.now. Spela.nu (verb) would be Play.now. Play.now (noun) would be translated to Lek.nu.
I guess it still won't playback DivX, XviD, RealPlayer, Quicktime, OGG/Vorbis, AAC, OGM, Matroska, SRT/VobSub subtitles etc etc etc etc like XBMP and XBMC..
:)
Why don't they give their customers what they obviously want instead?
BTW, No, I didn't read the article, this post is based on my previous experience with Microsoft.
That looks like downloadable sourcecode .tar.gz-files to me...
Luckily I don't know about anyone who has gotten those warnings here in Sweden and I hope the Swedish ISPs will continue to be as liberal as in the past. Really, high quality (1,5 megabit/sec) moviestreaming (although pay per view) is one of the things Swedish ISPs use to market their services.. And there is a big VDSL competition among the biggest ISPs right now (Bredbandsbolaget, Bostream and Telia) getting more and more aggressive (you can get uncapped 26 megabit both up and down for $30/month).. I don't think they dare to get a bad reputation until that race is settled.. If one of the ISPs get a reputation for harrassing P2Pers they will just switch to one of the other ISPs.
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On kernel 2.4 and earlier, you usually gave the X-server a negative nice-value to give it higher priority which lead to somewhat better responsivness. But the 2.6-kernel has a new rewritten scheduler (?) that detects if the process is interactive or not and handle them differently to make interactive apps more responsive while giving non-interactive apps more throughput. By renicing the X-server you foul the kernel to not make use of this and thus get a much less responsive X desktop.
If you just compiled and installed the 2.6 kernel on a 2.4 distro that is not 2.6-ready you'll have to mock with the X startup-scripts to remove the nice/renice-stuff to make use of the great 2.6 desktop-features.
I think he meant original as in "not pirated". :)