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#651
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I have command & conquer: tiberian dawn on my n900, it's too slow. I tried to tweak dosbox.conf, but no luck squeezing more power from it, so I guess we will need to wait for better dosbox build.

And I would be very glad to see better mouse handling, when you get to edge of the screen(top/down or left/right), mouse cursor just looses calibration.
Care to share the DOS version of this game?
EA has given that game out for free. So it's not illegal to share this game

I could only find the Windows 95 version of C&C Tiberian Dawn...
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Care to share the DOS version of this game?
EA has given that game out for free. So it's not illegal to share this game

I could only find the Windows 95 version of C&C Tiberian Dawn...
http://www.abandonia.com/en/downloadgame/378
 

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Originally Posted by forcer View Post
http://www.abandonia.com/en/downloadgame/378
Isn't this the Demo version?

Edit: Thanks!
it's the Full version indeed
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any chance of a faster version of dosbox for the n900? it's good for old games but not so good for the likes of heretic, cnc... I would love to be ab le to play Dark Forces on my n900.

Surely these games will run on a 486DX60... so shouldn't that work well on a 600mhz? ie 10 times the power?

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Originally Posted by Spotfist View Post
any chance of a faster version of dosbox for the n900? it's good for old games but not so good for the likes of heretic, cnc... I would love to be ab le to play Dark Forces on my n900.

Surely these games will run on a 486DX60... so shouldn't that work well on a 600mhz? ie 10 times the power?
[EDIT] most dos games were designed for systems between 4.78mhz 8088 to approximately 133mhz 80586. A 486DX-60 is at the high-end of historic MS-DOS performance.

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"Normal Dos computer is like 12-16mhz"??? Are you high???

Perhaps by "normal" you suggest the middle of the dos time scale, if so then yes I could with a sack of salt agree but to say a pc running at 60mhz is a fast dos pc, well that's crazy! quake would not be playable and I know from experience. 90mhz - 110mhz (pentium) that's fast, fast. 60mhz is fastish.

Anyways I take the answer to my questions is "NO!"
 
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Originally Posted by Spotfist View Post
"Normal Dos computer is like 12-16mhz"??? Are you high???

Perhaps by "normal" you suggest the middle of the dos time scale,
Yeah that's exactly what i meant. I was just editing the post to indicate that... sorry.

[EDIT again] going crazy with edits i know, but it's better than trailing posts... You can see the 'Javis1' (repository binary) performance in the latest graph, vs attempts by me to speed it up. JavisPedro was _right_ when he said 'don't expect big performance wins'.
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One experiment would be to update to 0.74,and another experiment is to try the armv4 recompiler instead of the current THUMB one (whose performance on the N900 sucks).
 
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ye I just thought I read somewhere that as a "general rule of thumb" it's something like current processor speed devided by 10 gives u the speed u can emulate i.e the n900 has a 600 mhz so therefore 60 would be doable...

I honestly dono much about dosbox so i may have it completely wrong
 
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What we can see here is that - disregarding sound (which was generated @8khz but not streamed in those benchmarks) - current dosbox is topping out around 3200 cycles, running doom timedemo, on stock N900.

However, setting dosbox cycles to "auto" gives a lot lower numbers, with glitchy sound. There are some things we can try doing to get sound more stable at higher cpu loads and cycles-settings. If anyone has time i can dig up some places to start tweaking.
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