DOSBox 7.0 Released
DOSBox 7.0 has now been released, with improved compatability and improved speed.

You can check out the latest and greatest HERE.

Those of us really old-school gamers who still have a plentiful supply of old DOS games (which, after a dozen years, I *still* lie and tell myself "I'm gonna finish this game someday") can rejoice.

I tried to get Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (my version is the floppy diskette version) to run under the previous version of DOSBox with no success, but I understand people have been fine with the CD-ROM version. Maybe 7.0 will fix my woes. I want to finish that one some day :)

I still don't think Origin's custom-memory management system for Ultima VII works in DOSBox ( EDIT: According to Grtz, it's worked since at least since 0.65, so I guess my info is out of date! ), but the last time I checked, Exult was pretty solid. Not perfect, but you can play the games (and expansions) to their conclusion through it. It seems like most of the work going into it is related to creating your own games using that engine.

And, as I have said before, Epic Pinball is perhaps the "killer app" for DOSBox.
.

Labels: retro

- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 8:05 AM (Permalink)