14th March 2006, 9:59 PM
I have, and of course it was with my most stubborn games.
DosBOX seems to be developed at a very slow pace. Since it is open though, I'm looking forward to a later date when the development process speeds up. I'm actually hoping it'll eventually become a fully featured emulation where I could actually install an OS or something.
As it stands, I use DOSBox in conjuntion with a front loader as the interface without one is pretty intolerable. Until then, I think I will start messing with more details in the emulator, as well as check to see if the program has been updated as of late.
You know, it is times like these when I think there is one web standard, open and not owned by any single company, should be implemented. The "download updates" standard would be a net standard wherein any program one installs that is compliant adds to a list located on one's computer of "installed programs" (OS independant). Each entry in this list would include basic metadata like the program's name, installed directory location, and most importantly, the current server location where updates can be checked for according to the "update standard". A singular manager program, and since it is open, there would be a wide number of such programs but they would all work with the standards, would check this list and check to see if there are updates for ALL your installed stuff at once, and then download them and install them. Since it is standardized, negotiating the server request would be straitforward. It would support security keys (in case only some people are to download an update a key may be requested and provided), multiple version selections if applicable, and even P2P support such as Bittorrenting or some such thing. I would hope that eventually OSes would actually utilize the standard themselves for their own autoupdating, providing a built in update program which would do the same thing. MS would likely incorporate a similar program a year after everyone else and still stick with their own proprietary update standard for their programs.
DosBOX seems to be developed at a very slow pace. Since it is open though, I'm looking forward to a later date when the development process speeds up. I'm actually hoping it'll eventually become a fully featured emulation where I could actually install an OS or something.
As it stands, I use DOSBox in conjuntion with a front loader as the interface without one is pretty intolerable. Until then, I think I will start messing with more details in the emulator, as well as check to see if the program has been updated as of late.
You know, it is times like these when I think there is one web standard, open and not owned by any single company, should be implemented. The "download updates" standard would be a net standard wherein any program one installs that is compliant adds to a list located on one's computer of "installed programs" (OS independant). Each entry in this list would include basic metadata like the program's name, installed directory location, and most importantly, the current server location where updates can be checked for according to the "update standard". A singular manager program, and since it is open, there would be a wide number of such programs but they would all work with the standards, would check this list and check to see if there are updates for ALL your installed stuff at once, and then download them and install them. Since it is standardized, negotiating the server request would be straitforward. It would support security keys (in case only some people are to download an update a key may be requested and provided), multiple version selections if applicable, and even P2P support such as Bittorrenting or some such thing. I would hope that eventually OSes would actually utilize the standard themselves for their own autoupdating, providing a built in update program which would do the same thing. MS would likely incorporate a similar program a year after everyone else and still stick with their own proprietary update standard for their programs.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)