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joncampbell123 / dosbox-x

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
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Which machine emulation is the best? #2586

Open BridgeHeadland opened 3 years ago

BridgeHeadland commented 3 years ago

As long as I have used DOSBox SVN Daum, I usually set the machine emulation to vesa_nolfb, since, according to my calculations, it should be better than vesa_oldvbe, because NOLFB is based on VESA 2.0, which is higher than VESA 1.2, on which vesa_oldvbe is based on, and therefore I have my reason to believe that NOLFB is better than OLDVBE. I think VESA is better than SVGA because games with advanced engines like Build are VESA based. I see that DOSBox-X emulates pc98, pc9801, pc9821, fm_towns, mcga and mda. So the question is: Are the six latter mentioned better than VESA? If so: Which of them is best? I think some machine emulations can have very bad sides, although they are best on others.

emendelson commented 3 years ago

Have you experimented to see which works best for you? There is no single best emulation for all games and applications.

Wengier commented 3 years ago

Right now machine types "pc98", "pc9801" and "pc9821" are essentially the same and all refer to the Japanese NEC PC-98 mode. You probably want to use this mode only if you are interested in Japanese mode emulation, such as playing Japanese games.