Game Emulators: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:48, 7 March 2008

fakenes seems very good, with an excellent GUI and an excellent video support via OpenGL.
Fakenes is quite slow with good video options (HQ4X). It also must be ran in windowed mode in order to use alt-tab.
Mednafen is another candidate.

The best one on Linux seems to be Yabause. Although slow, and problematic for sound, it is impressive already.

You must use DOSBox. I did not find yet a good front-end for Gentoo. Write the configuration file yourself, and start the emulator directly on the command-line with as an argument the .EXE you want to load.
Try dboxfe as a front end. It's already quite usable, not yet perfect though.
Press Control-F10 to turn the mouse cursor off (useful for many games). Press Control-F11 or F12 to increase or decrease the CPU cycles. Some old games may need a very low cycle rate. Beware that by default these keys are already captured by KDE.
Press alt-enter to switch fullscreen mode.

Vice 1.22 is good, however I had problems with keyboard keys and speed (while reading the disks).

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 * You must use DOSBox. I did not find yet a good front-end for Gentoo. Write the configuration file yourself, and start the emulator directly on the command-line with as an argument the .EXE you want to load.
 * Try dboxfe as a front end. It's already quite usable, not yet perfect though.
-* Press Control-F10 to turn the mouse cursor off (useful for many games). Press Control-F11 or F12 to increase or decrease the CPU cycles. Some old games may need a very low cycle rate.
+* Press Control-F10 to turn the mouse cursor off (useful for many games). Press Control-F11 or F12 to increase or decrease the CPU cycles. Some old games may need a very low cycle rate. Beware that by default these keys are already captured by KDE.
 * Press alt-enter to switch fullscreen mode.