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by **Russel** » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:27:17

Tom,

Not sure if you've heard of this, but it is a free DOS emulator for
playing old games on current PCs

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Some people were talking about the original Indy 500 Sim. I picked up a
copy from (shoot, can't find the bookmark now). It was a site with lots
of old games.

Anyway it was interesting to play it and see where we've been :).

I'd like to see some of the early flight sims we played. I am sure they
are out there on the internet ... somewhere.

Russell

by **rwkeating-rem..** » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:29:21

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by **William Bradsha** » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:44:42

> Tom,

> Not sure if you've heard of this, but it is a free DOS emulator for
> playing old games on current PCs

> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

> Some people were talking about the original Indy 500 Sim. I picked up a
> copy from (shoot, can't find the bookmark now). It was a site with lots
> of old games.

> Anyway it was interesting to play it and see where we've been :).

Wow. It's improved since 0.58, and now I can get NASCAR Racing 2 to run.
Well, technically. If you consider less than 1 fps to be "running" (and
that's with the graphics turned down to minimum), and it takes forever
to navigate the menus. :(

But I did save a screenshot from in-game, just for the sake of never
having gotten it to work in DOSbox before. ;)

-Will

by **William Bradsha** » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:17:47

> Wow. It's improved since 0.58, and now I can get NASCAR Racing 2 to run.
> Well, technically. If you consider less than 1 fps to be "running" (and
> that's with the graphics turned down to minimum), and it takes forever
> to navigate the menus. :(

After fiddling with some dosbox settings, I managed to get a whopping
1.6 fps! My 1 GHz machine clearly isn't cutting it, and I'd be better
off running it under Win98's DOS.

I wonder what the fps is like on a 3.4 GHz box?

-Will

by **Plowboy** » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:49:07

Ha Ha, that is funny, a Dos box emulator, hehehe hehehe it is nt like
trying to emulate a Mac on a pc, or maybe an amiga. Whooo thanks for the
link, boy that was fun.

>> Wow. It's improved since 0.58, and now I can get NASCAR Racing 2 to
>> run. Well, technically. If you consider less than 1 fps to be
>> "running" (and that's with the graphics turned down to minimum), and
>> it takes forever to navigate the menus. :(

> After fiddling with some dosbox settings, I managed to get a whopping
> 1.6 fps! My 1 GHz machine clearly isn't cutting it, and I'd be better
> off running it under Win98's DOS.

> I wonder what the fps is like on a 3.4 GHz box?

> -Will

by **Dave Henri** » Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:12:38

When we first moved up to fast computers...my son had a AMD Tbird 1200+,
all he did was dload old Nintendo 8 bit games. MAN! that used to chap my
hide...! More computing power than the Apollo Moon landing and he plays
8bit games. sheesh!

dave henrie

by **Plowboy** » Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:01:03

Heheee, well until Nascar Racing came along, PC was the acronym for Piece of
Crap, after NR, PC meant Play Computer... now you know, if it weren't for
MS & PC's being prevalent as a toaster I would have my job... Networking
Tech (AKA PC Support Technicial) I mean really... <VBG> I'd still be
repairing Radio's and TV's LOL.

>> Ha Ha, that is funny, a Dos box emulator, hehehe hehehe it is nt
>> like trying to emulate a Mac on a pc, or maybe an amiga. Whooo
>> thanks for the link, boy that was fun.

> When we first moved up to fast computers...my son had a AMD Tbird
> 1200+, all he did was dload old Nintendo 8 bit games. MAN! that used
> to chap my hide...! More computing power than the Apollo Moon
> landing and he plays 8bit games. sheesh!

> dave henrie

by **Plowboy** » Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:06:43

Oh and I was thinking emulating a Dos box on a "windows based PC" should not
be any harder to emulate a "car" using your on hand 73 pacer, right?

***that was messed up...

also note the typo... shoud have read like this...
"now you know, if it weren't for MS & PC's being *AS* prevalent as a toaster
I would *NOT* have my current job,

> Heheee, well until Nascar Racing came along, PC was the acronym for
> Piece of Crap, after NR, PC meant Play Computer... now you know, if
> it weren't for MS & PC's being prevalent as a toaster I would have my
> job... Networking Tech (AKA PC Support Technicial) I mean really... <VBG>
> I'd still be repairing Radio's and TV's LOL.

>>> Ha Ha, that is funny, a Dos box emulator, hehehe hehehe it is nt
>>> like trying to emulate a Mac on a pc, or maybe an amiga. Whooo
>>> thanks for the link, boy that was fun.

>> When we first moved up to fast computers...my son had a AMD Tbird
>> 1200+, all he did was dload old Nintendo 8 bit games. MAN! that used
>> to chap my hide...! More computing power than the Apollo Moon
>> landing and he plays 8bit games. sheesh!

>> dave henrie

by **Eldre** » Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:44:12

Maybe this one?:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

Eldred
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