"James Michael Fultz" <xyzzy@sent.as.invalid> wrote in message
news:abfc5696caae4fe5d5c2c5db08561ad1@news.teranew s.com...
> * Bradley Reed <bradreed@NOSPAMcomcast.net>:
> >> [ games I tried in DOSBox were slow for me ]
> >
> > Did you try hitting CTRL-F12 several times while the game was running?
> > I think the default settings run the games slowly because there are a
> > lot of old games that are just unplayable at modern computer speeds.
> > Each time you hit CTRL-F12 it speeds up emulation, just don't speed it
> > up faster than your computer will handle or it will become slow again.
>
> Yes, I did. It did help but didn't seem to be quite enough for me. I'm
> using an Athlon Thunderbird 1400MHz, for reference. I suppose that it
> should be fast enough for some of the older games that I have to run in
> DOSBox. Perhaps not. I suppose that more experimentation is in order.
> ;-)
>
> > Just finished a game of Master of Orion in Dosbox not 10 minutes ago.
>
> That's cool. It seems to me that DOSBox could prove useful beyond games
> too. If one had an old DOS application that was needed to read some old
> data, etc.

Well, heck - you could just cave, and boot DOS from a floppy. Of
course, if you want a C: drive, you'll have to have a fat or vfat
partition. (or probably others, but you get my point.)

Cheers!
Rich