DOSBox is okay, but lots of games require special settings to work correctly. The PC speaker emulation sounds horrible, way different than the real thing.
The "Ancient Dos Games" channel on Jewtube reviews every DOS game, and in every review he adds the ideal DOSBox settings to use for each game.
It's as pain in the ass, but worth it if there's something you're specifically looking for. I used it to setup the old-school solitaire game on my wife's computer, 'cause she missed it. Doesn't like the new one. :p It'd be nice if it were as plug-and-play and (s)nes(64)/PS(I/II) emulators.
Best to get a real DOS machine. Preferably one from each era. Mine are AT clone 286 10mhz, 486 DX4 120mhz, Pentium Pro 180mhz.. and a stack of Tandy's: 1000TL (XT 286 12mhz), 4020 (386SX 16mhz i think), and a 486SX 25mhz model I can't remember the number of without pulling off the case.. All tricked out, since just a plain machine won't really cut it.
That is way too much work, for me. Don't care that much. Would rather simply tweak some config files for each thing that I wanted to do. Hell: WINE works for a lot of stuff, too.
>DOSBox is okay, but lots of games require special settings to work correctly.
More like a setting profile per game tbh, even for games with similar configs
That's for ishar 2 for instance
dosbox -exit -noconsole -c "mount c ROMs/DOS/games/Ishar2" -c "c:" -c "start.exe" -fullscreen
Sometimes (every single time) you'll have a .bat or whatever else instead of a .exe, and of course the prefix will never be the same, from run.bat to start.exe to myass.hole, for every game, so yeah, basically it's a slighly different command line for every game instance, which isn't (or very rarely) the case for mame of mednafen
I'm trying to find the resource that typically helped me out, but between the DOSbox wiki and PC Gaming Wiki, it's usually pretty easy to confirm the cycle settings, etc., that need tweaked for each game to run optimally through DOSbox. For sound, you can always soup that shit up (youtube.com) with some custom options (comparison around 5:00), up to the Roland MT-32 emulators.
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