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Actually that's one of the things I like about the Amiga community, there's people out there that have been contacted that are willing to legally licence their stuff. Cloanto licensed all the Amiga ROM images for example so you don't even need a physical machine to dump the ROM chips from while still being able to legally use the software. I also know Amstrad made all the ROMs for the ZX Spectrum machines legal downloads for personal use.
So it is out there, even legitimately, it's just hard work making it happen on anything more than a half-assed scale. Most of the people from the late 1980s and early 1990s are still around, it's just getting hold of them.
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Now I'm by no means an emulator expert, but sounds like an impossible task.
Especially the more modern (x86, N64, Playstation and later) platforms are very complex and require a lot of work to emulate. Case and point being that N64 emulators still only emulate about half of the games well (the more popular ones), despite it coming out 18 years ago.
SNES can now be perfectly emulated, altough it required shitloads of work and a 3Ghz dual-core.I don't think you can do much better than "Operating system" to provide a unified environment/framework for emulators. Everything more you make will probably require hacks for some platform/situation or another.
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Given that I can't even get some Windows 95/98 games to run without fancy tricks and that's not even dancing across a fundamentally different processor architecture...
I have both DOSBox and VirtualBox emulation environments for Win9x
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I have both DOSBox and VirtualBox emulation environments for Win9x
DOSBox is great for Windows 3.x. VirtualBox works well on Windows XP and up. As far as I know, there's no proper solution for emulating Windows 9x family. At least nothing that's good enough for games.
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DOSBox can do it if you don't need vast amounts of horsepower and are willing to go through the hoops necessary to boot the fucker like creating a virtual hard drive image with geometry.
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Wait, you mean DOSBox can handle Windows 95/98?
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I've never tried installing Windows 95 to DOSBox before. Somehow I doubt it works but now I kinda want to try.
Yes there is a working Win 3.11 install in my DOSBox, but that's easy because that version of Windows is just a DOS application and really isn't an operating system, not in the same sense as later versions of Windows.
Filed Under: Waiting to see why the pedantic dickweeds think Win3.x is a real OS
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It does, but it's awfully picky about shit like graphics modes and hard drive geometry. I don't seem to have the bookmark for the thread on the VOGONS forum where they explain how to do it.
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It does, but it's awfully picky about shit like graphics modes and hard drive geometry. I don't seem to have the bookmark for the thread on the VOGONS forum where they explain how to do it.
Well I'll be damnd.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hvgFvAYjPG93h-Avun3sprvZX2GfkRhl4YJBT15FTx0/editI'm trying this out at some point.
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Not only it's possible to run Win95/98 in DOSBox, but it's even possible to emulate a 3dfx Voodoo card.
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Not only it's possible to run Win95/98 in DOSBox, but it's even possible to emulate a 3dfx Voodoo card.
Now you're talking magic.
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Not only it's possible to run Win95/98 in DOSBox, but it's even possible to emulate a 3dfx Voodoo card.
This makes me want to go digging around for my old HyperBlade CD. I think that game was 3dfx-only.
Filed Under: Money Doesn't Grow On Trees, But Our Hands Do!
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GOG.com's copy of Carmageddon uses the Glide layer with DOSBox to run silky smooth 3dfx magic.
It basically IS magic.
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What about the bump in the middle of the user skill bell curve?
It's quite fitting that the biggest bell-ends inhabit either end of that curve, don't you think?
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Liked for this link. Amazing stuff.
And yep, emulating custom hardware is hard. There's pretty much no way to have an "unified emulator software" - those things have to be very micro-optimized and fine-tuned for each particular platform. Sure, you can abstract some stuff, but unification will bring a lot of overhead, which will pretty much put it over the capabilities of PCs.
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Ok so how can I run Unreal 1 again on my Win8 system?
That game did basically everything right.
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Buy it on Steam or GOG. You may have to use the Unreal Tournament .EXE though, although it uses all the .U's from the original game.
