Subj : DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu issue
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Rixter
Date : Tue Aug 27 2024 08:55 pm


> 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.

> Is anyone else using dosbox-x with BRE?  If so, did you have to do anything
> special to get it running?

> Some pertinent settings from each environment...

> dosemu:
> cpu = 80586
> ems = 8192
> video = vga
> all other cpu/memory/video settings left to default

> dosbox-x:
> cpu core = auto
> cpu type = auto
> ems = true
> machine ("video") = svga_s3
> all other settings left to default

> I am running dosbox-x on a debian linux bookworm machine.  I have tried
> changing the CPU setting to '386' and '486' (via the pull down menu) but that
> didn't seem to change the behavior (i.e. in dosbox-x).

> Thanks,
> Mike

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> Could it be the fact RIP detect pause?
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