CppCast Episode 304:
Modernizing DOSBox with Patryk Obara
The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers! Hosted by Rob Irving and Jason Turner.
They talk to Patryk „Dreamer_“ Obara, founder and maintainer of DOSBox Staging, about the DOSBox project itself and the DOSBox Staging repository where he's been working to modernize DOSBox.
This feature allows the user to redirect new and changed files to a different location transparently. The files in the overlay and normal drives are merged at startup and kept up to date when the game writes to the disk.
This feature is useful for redirecting save files or configuration files to a different location (e.g. for backup or cloud saves).
It is really weird, but also great to see, even though that retro game collecting is VERY expensive it is such a great time at the moment to get into retro gaming. Especially with the amount of emulation devices available, flash cards if you want to play on OG hardware and other options.
DOSBox Staging Team member John Novak did a very extensive review of the different MIDI modules and their plugin counterparts in a massive review on his blog.
You can digest the whole thing here including his preferences for different games he tested and final verdict.
How about some fun with John Romero's SIGIL DooM episode (2019)?
You need to bring your own DOOM.WAD or DOOMU.WAD from Ultimate Doom.
You can download Ultimate Doom from GOG/Steam.
DOSBox Staging must already be installed.
We are going to use MBF - Marine's Best Friend, a Doom sourceport for DOS.
Since the download link in the original thread on Vogons is dead, we prepared a download where the latest MBF 2.04-019 and the additional fixes by CRVS are already merged as MBF author Gerwin Broers recommends.
The ZIP contains:
MBF v2.04-019 incl. fixes by CRVS 2021-01-11.
SIGIL WAD v1.21
MBF and DOSBox Staging configured to give you the best out-of-the-box experience.
Extract to your games folder, a folder SIGIL will be created.
Copy your DOOM.WAD or DOOMU.WAD to SIGIL/drives/c/
Double click "dosbox.conf" and open it using "DOSBox Staging.exe" in Windows.
Double click "Start DOSBox from here.command" in macOS - if macOS complains, right-click, and select "Open".
A menu will show up where you can select OPL3 or General MIDI (AWE soundfont) as your music device.
A few years old but still a great work by @gamozolabs on vectorized emulation: JIT standard app into their AVX-512 equivalent to fuzz 16 VMs at a time per thread
Che figata, un progettino che emula l'interfaccia di win95/98/me all'interno del browser con alcuni giochi di un tempo (doom, quake, ecc) sempre emulati. Da provare sul pc, sul telefono non rende bene.