3rd June 2005, 11:12 AM
If you have even one Lucasarts adventure, Scummvm is better. And not just because it's easier to use, but because it's got better, faster emulation of the games, with a lot less fiddling with settings required... I like DOSBox, but it runs a lot of newer DOS titles quite slowly.
SCUMMVM is indeed mostly for Lucasarts titles, but it also runs the Simon the Sorcerer adventure games, as well as Revolution Softworks stuff (Broken Sword, etc).
SCUMMVM also has two free (made freeware games by their authors!) -- one mediocre adventure game by ... somebody or other... and the great Beneath a Steel Sky, from Revolution. They only run in SCUMMVM, and I'd definitely recommend getting BASS off (the SCUMMVM website)...
I do use DOSBox, but only for a couple of games. Most of my games work in Windows (remember, I've got ME and a SBLive with DOS SB emulation, so it's much more compatible with DOS games than XP is), and of the others SCUMMVM runs a couple, but there are some games that only DOSBox runs... and while some (Master of Magic, Wizardry VI, Shadowlands, and others) work fine, others ... well, let's just say that it does not run them fast enough yet. Oh, you can play them, but they're slow... (Betrayal at Krondor, Highway Hunter, The Elder Scrolls: Arena (weirdly, DOSBox actually runs the Daggerfall demo faster than it runs Arena...), and some others) Still, though, DOSBox is a great program. And I'm sure that if I had a faster computer fewer of those games would be problems. :)
SCUMMVM is indeed mostly for Lucasarts titles, but it also runs the Simon the Sorcerer adventure games, as well as Revolution Softworks stuff (Broken Sword, etc).
SCUMMVM also has two free (made freeware games by their authors!) -- one mediocre adventure game by ... somebody or other... and the great Beneath a Steel Sky, from Revolution. They only run in SCUMMVM, and I'd definitely recommend getting BASS off (the SCUMMVM website)...
I do use DOSBox, but only for a couple of games. Most of my games work in Windows (remember, I've got ME and a SBLive with DOS SB emulation, so it's much more compatible with DOS games than XP is), and of the others SCUMMVM runs a couple, but there are some games that only DOSBox runs... and while some (Master of Magic, Wizardry VI, Shadowlands, and others) work fine, others ... well, let's just say that it does not run them fast enough yet. Oh, you can play them, but they're slow... (Betrayal at Krondor, Highway Hunter, The Elder Scrolls: Arena (weirdly, DOSBox actually runs the Daggerfall demo faster than it runs Arena...), and some others) Still, though, DOSBox is a great program. And I'm sure that if I had a faster computer fewer of those games would be problems. :)
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