Subj : DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu issue
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jas Hud
Date : Thu Aug 22 2024 20:19:50

  To: Mike Powell
  Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu issue
  By: Mike Powell to All on Thu Aug 22 2024 02:10 pm

 > From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs
 >
 > Good afternoon,
 > I recently switched a couple of my DOS BBS nodes from dosemu to dosbox-x, at
 > the request of the software maintainer.  For the most part, the BBS works
 > the same if not a little better.  Despite the connect speed being reduced
 > from 115200 to 57600, one of my telnet callers has reported that games like
 > OOII areactually working fast enough that game play is no longer slugish.
 >
 > However, I have run into an issue with BRE.  Normally, when BRE starts,
 >
 > the
 > first screen the caller sees (that gives them the version info) quickly
 > clears and they are presented with the BRE ansi welcome screen.
 >
 > Now that I have moved over to dosbox-x, there is a very noticable pause
 > betweenthe version screen and the ANSI screen.  Maybe 20 or more seconds
 > before the
 > game continues.  Once this happens, the game seems to run and exit just
 > fine.

from what i know of ooii (i know bryan turner), it's flakey and you will have some issues with it not performing well unless you do certain tweaks i can't remember off hand.   it could also be affected greatly by the environment it is running on.

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