There are PCem and 86Box.
Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Emulation is generally not very good for DOS, primarily because DOSBox is really bad with anything 3D. Its emulation of 3dfx cards might as well be non-existent.
In this case, it actually would be better for them.to play on genuine hardware.
weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
xyzzy@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Yeah. You can use Dosbox for most things, and Wine will handle some things, but if you want to play Windows titles and emulate specific configurations and 3D cards, etc., you should look into one of these.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Do you consider quake 3d? Because dosbox runs it perfectly for me…
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Quake and Doom are early enough to be okay. But for later games, like Elder Scrolls Adventures Redguard, DOSBox has a lot of problems with those titles.
Redkey@programming.dev 2 days ago
I think that when RHoI wrote “3D”, they meant “hardware accelerated 3D”. Many early 3D DOS games either did their 3D entirely in software, or supported hardware acceleration support as a kind of optional bonus. Software 3D shouldn’t give DOSBox much more trouble than most 2D games. The original release of Quake didn’t even have any accelerator support; it was patched in later.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
DOSBox-X is supposed to have 3DFX support, though I’ve never tried it myself.