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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: cast-fish on February 08, 2012, 12:25:32 AM

Title: dosbox
Post by: cast-fish on February 08, 2012, 12:25:32 AM

Hello

hope this message is in the right forum

is Dosbox a particularly hungry program?...what cpu and ram does it need?

how much power does it need to run well?  (so that it could execute some arbitary
DOS based program)

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Title: Re: dosbox
Post by: Rich on February 08, 2012, 11:59:29 AM

Hi cast-fish
I happened to have dosbox on an 800Mhz machine running TC3.4. According to top, it consumed
about 66Mbytes of RAM and half the CPU time. Last I heard, all TC apps run on 486 or better.

Title: Re: dosbox
Post by: Pseudoman on February 08, 2012, 05:41:09 PM

Have a look at this handy chart from the DOSBox wiki:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/System_Requirements (http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/System_Requirements)
As you can see, it depends on what you need to run and what hardware you have.
DOSBox is pretty efficient, and is pretty forgiving considering what it has to do.

Title: Re: dosbox
Post by: cast-fish on February 09, 2012, 11:15:24 AM

Yes

Perhaps the Rasberry Pi computer will have no problem running Dosbox. Meaning
a lot of DOS based music programs can be used...like trackers

that was the idea...but ofcourse, there are infact many many Dos programs
that a pretty useful.

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