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« on: October 09, 2010, 08:12:18 PM » |
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DosBox is very slow on both PSP and GP2X Wiz, it's pretty useless. Suprisingly, there is a rather decent DOS emulator for the less powerful DS. If you have a flash cart, it will run many 286 games at full speed, with VGA graphics and Sound Blaster emulation.
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2010, 09:00:21 PM » |
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Netbooks (and iPads too, I imagine) work pretty well with DOSBox.
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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2010, 11:22:12 PM » |
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Depending on what games you are into, a lot of adventure games can be purchased for the DS.
Older adventures also work very well with ScummVM.
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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2010, 10:49:37 AM » |
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Yeah, DosBox is fine on my MSI U100 netbook. I can even connect my CM-32LN and have that authentic Roland LA sound.
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2010, 03:22:16 AM » |
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That wouldn't be very portable though would it  . |
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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2010, 11:48:37 AM » |
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Yeah, I wish there was a more modern solution (like an accurate emulator) . Still, it does run off batteries! |
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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2010, 11:30:02 PM » |
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Ah, well that's cool!
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2010, 09:21:30 AM » |
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Take a look at the new Toshiba Libretto W100. It's quite small and has a decent cpu.
Sony also has a small hand held. It's features in quite a few movies and TV shows :-)
And Fujitsu has one as well.
They do cost a lot more than a netbook of course.
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« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2010, 11:45:47 PM » |
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Have a look at Open Pandora ( www.open-pandora.org). It should run DosBox and a lot of other emulators flawlessly.. |
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2010, 11:51:07 AM » |
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The Pandora seems to be a very cool device, but if you order one, you're in for a long wait. They still haven't delivered all of the units from the first batch.
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2011, 09:24:38 AM » |
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The Pandora is the biggest con ever... It's utterly ludicrously priced. I mean, ok, it's probably priced well from their point of view. They'll be getting back their costs in a limited run, but from the end users point of view you could buy a far tech spec superior laptop or even netbook for that and do exactly the same sort of things. You're only going to get the hardcore plumping for that. I can't see myself ever getting one. Might get two and a half netbooks instead.  |
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2011, 10:49:49 AM » |
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It's smaller than a netbook, but I haven't bought one because they seem unreliable and untrustworthy. And I do get pretty nice emulation on my Android phone with a QWERTY keyboard.
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2011, 02:03:06 PM » |
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LIFEBOOK UH900 could fit the bill? Pricey, but it's brand new with decent specifications.
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2011, 03:55:01 PM » |
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Surely any of these would suit me fine for emulation. 50hz refresh rate can be a problem, the majority of the C64 and the Amiga games were European PAL versions and some netbooks cannot be forced to work at 50hz.
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