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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 :). 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

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> 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

William Bradshaw wrote: > 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

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. William Bradshaw wrote:

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> William Bradshaw wrote: > >> 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

"Plowboy2" <stingre.removethis_@yahoo!.removeit> wrote in news:l9ONc.2$aR2.1@okepread04: > 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

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. Dave Henrie wrote:

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> "Plowboy2" <stingre.removethis_@yahoo!.removeit> wrote in > news:l9ONc.2$aR2.1@okepread04: > >> 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

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? Crap 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, Plowboy2 wrote:

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> 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. > > Dave Henrie wrote: >> "Plowboy2" <stingre.removethis_@yahoo!.removeit> wrote in >> news:l9ONc.2$aR2.1@okepread04: >> >>> 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

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