Nice, the latest #DOSBOX-X for Apple M silicon Macs finally added the SDL component for networking. Now the COM ports work! Using #ProcommPlus to dial into Darkforce #BBS as a test and it worked great!
Nice, the latest #DOSBOX-X for Apple M silicon Macs finally added the SDL component for networking. Now the COM ports work! Using #ProcommPlus to dial into Darkforce #BBS as a test and it worked great!
@timixretroplays yeah, I guess this shows @rasteri build this before businesses started upgrading tech.
I wished DM&P / ICOP would increase production or that there was an easier way to get other #ix86 SBCs from like #VIA (remember when they made #CUP|s?) or some #embedded variants from #Intel or #AMD.
Cuz I was shure some #IntelAtom SoC's and #AMDGseries APUs do have #ISA support as they use quite older process nodes and microarchitectures.
But for a #MSDOS #RetroGaming system, that is quite a bottleneck to work on when it comes to #BareMetal.
#DOSBOX or similar do work well, but they don't provide the necessary I/O for a lot of use-cases.
Maybe you can drop in a different #Vortex86 which also has #ISA?
@dfx @Das_blaue_Pony Naja, für mich ist das kein Problem mehr. Ich bin seit rund 20 Jahren weg von Windows.
Seit einigen Wochen vergnüge ich mich momentan damit, alte DOS-Games in der #DOSBox unter #Linux zu zocken.
Hab inzwischen aus dem Netz knapp 10 Pinballgames als Vollversion gefunden, von denen ich vor ~35 Jahren vielleicht mal eine Shareware-Version hatte. Da kommt Nostalgie und Begeisterung auf!
10 days left in the #gog #summersale! For those of you enjoying #dos games from GOG, if you didn't know, #dosboxstaging offers a much better experience than the default #dosbox.
I also wrote a tool to seamlessly replace it for you when playing on gog galaxy: https://tinyurl.com/dbstgrplcr
LucasArts games emulator DREAMM 4.0 is in beta and it's time to give it some more attention.
Run all retro LucasArts games on Linux/Mac/Windows.
If you want to help and especially if you are a fan of any of the games below, please try them out.
NEW network feature in 4.0!
Play cross-platform against each other!
Outlaws
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Mysteries of the Sith
X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
X-Wing Alliance
Rebellion
Star Wars: Racer
https://dreamm.aarongiles.com/beta
#LucasArts #Emulation #Win98 #Win95 #DOSBox #MS-DOS #Lucasfilm #Games #DOS #Adventures #StarWars #Retro #RetroGaming #CRT #Shaders #RolandMT32 #RolandSC-55 #86box #PCem
DOS box simply rocks - you can't get any closer to the original when playing DOS games
#shwcwt #blucwt #hlcowt #dosbox #retrogames #retrogaming #dosgames
#Microsoft #Multiplan is a spreadsheet application that was developed by Microsoft in the '80s. My latest blog post shows how to emulate this ancient spreadsheet format in #DOSBox-X.
It also discusses compatibility with modern software, and in particular @libreoffice #calc.
https://bitsgalore.org/2025/05/19/emulating-microsoft-multiplan-spreadsheets-in-dosbox-x.html
WOLFENSTEIN 3D
Playing right now in 2025. Using DOS-Box under Linux Mints
[LIVE] with „Die Siedler 2“.
Nach dem mißglückten Versuch mit Widelands am letzten Sonntag spielen wir heute halt das Original aus dem Jahr 1996. Wuseln wie vor 30 Jahren!
https://live.hatnix.net #Owncast #Linux #Gaming #DRMfree #DOSBox #Livestream #hatclan
DOSBox Staging v0.82.1 has been released
The main focus of this maintenance release is to fix a couple of regressions introduced in 0.82.0 and older releases, mostly related to game compatibility. The other big improvement is the CPU usage of the 3dfx Voodoo emulation has been reduced by about 50%, so your computer won’t go into hoover-mode anymore when playing those Voodoo games
check out the release notes for the details:
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/release-notes/0.82.1/
#DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS #DOSBox
I gave Windows 3.11 a dark mode. It's practically a modern OS now.
@vetgaming @linuxmint Well, @fuchsiii wants to avoid using #Windows (and #Steam) by basically switching #Wine WINEENV
s and underlying configs, making everythibg too youbg for #DOSBOX but too old for current day Wine (ca. 1995-2005) just work.
This is crucial, as Support of #legacy #Windows in #Hardware and #Software is drying up pretty quickly.
She does have a dedicaded machine just to reverse-engineer stuff.
Ich veröffentliche jetzt offiziell mein 1992 geschriebenes #Computerspiel "Handel". Gerade habe ich es für #DOSBox-X überarbeitet, angepasst, erweitert, korrigiert und #Bugs gefixt.
#MSDOS, #Gaming #Retrogaming #Game, #Handel, #Handelssimulation, #Privateer, #Elite, #Elite II, #Indiegame
https://www.chabis.ch/games/handel.html
https://www.chabis.ch/webordner/quellcodes/SPIELE_HANDEL.zip
Someone asked me some questions on the #Psion Series 3, so I thought I'd post my response here in case anyone else is interested. #LongRead
Emulator
You've got two options. The first is the original "emulators" written by Psion, S3AEMUL.EXE
and S3CEMUL.EXE
. They both run in DOS and emulate the 3a and 3c. But they're less of an emulator than a runtime environment for #EPOC16 (the OS). There's good and bad to this. You can run S3AEMUL
and S3CEMUL
straight in #DOSBox and it will talk to your host OS's filesystem (Windows, Linux, macOS, whatever). You need to map an M: drive in DOSBox for the internal storage, but once that's done you can copy files straight into that folder on your host OS. The downside is that it's not true hardware emulation. You won't get a good judge of the speed of a real device, and some syscalls aren't implements so will fail or crash the #emulator. They're bundled with the SDK (see below).
The alternative is #MAME. This is the closest to proper hardware emulation you're going to find. You can either dump your own ROMs using a tool called #EDisAsm, or you can find them in the usual MAME ROM repos. The one thing that is notably missing is RS232 emulation from the later models, because we haven't been able to find any documentation on the silicon, but it's working fine with the 3a.
Toolchain
At the moment you have only one option - the Psion SIBO C SDK with the #TopSpeed C Compiler. You're going to need DOSBox (I personally prefer DOSBox Staging). It's all available on the Internet Archive in one easy download, including all the documentation you will need.
https://archive.org/details/psion-sibo-c-sdk
From there, you have a few libraries you can use. There CLIB, which is a pure ANSI C implementation, designed to easily port apps - don't use it, it's slow and you'll be missing a lot of features. Then there's PLIB, which is Psion's C dialect - very nice to use, and you can put together a C app pretty quickly. Finally, there's OLIB, which is Psion's proprietary OO C - it feels very clunky, but once you get over that it can be very powerful.
EPOC16 apps are restricted to a very pure version of the small memory model, but you can split code up into libraries known as DYLs.
In the past I've written code using VS Code, which can be made to play nicely with the SDK's header files. I've not got it working with NeoVim and clangd yet, but it should be possible with cmake.
The SDK comes with a debugger (SDBG.EXE
), a DOS GUI app. If you run SDBG.EXE
in DOSBox Staging, run the Psion3a
MAME emulation, and enable RS232 over TCP on both, you can use SDBG
to send apps to MAME. If you enable symbols, you can step through the code. It's rudimentary by modern standards, but it works pretty well.
I say "at the moment" because I'm slowly rewriting the tools in the SDK. I already have a new working version of #CTRAN, the preprocessor for Psion OO C, but I'm a long way from a compiler. There have been efforts to coax gcc into compiling for SIBO/EPOC16, but I think they have stalled for now.
If you want some examples of EPOC16 C and OO C code, take a look at these:
https://github.com/thelastpsion/edisasm
https://github.com/thelastpsion/pyramid
https://github.com/thelastpsion/nfsc
https://github.com/nickmat/Psion3-Wari
https://github.com/nickmat/Psion3-Vector
Device
The 3mx is the best choice. It's significantly faster than the earlier models (27.6 MHz vs 7.6 MHz), has a switchable backlight, the fastest RS232 and the best version of EPOC16. I "daily drive" one for journalling, adventure games, and a few other small tasks. After that I'd say the 3c (beware - they were covered in soft-touch rubber, so will need cleaning) and the 2MB 3a. The latter is the most common. Most 3c units came with a backlight, except for the early UK ones. The 3a doesn't. Arguably the non-backlit screens have better contrast so you don't need the backlight so much in lower light, but the backlight has obvious benefits.
Cranking Up the Detail in a Flight Simulator from 1992 - Nostalgia is a funny thing. If you experienced the early days of video games in th... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/05/cranking-up-the-detail-in-a-flight-simulator-from-1992/ #flightsimulator #softwarehacks #hexeditor #debugger #dosbox #games #patch
Hey Hivemind, what are some must have apps and games for Windows 3.11? :)
(Already enjoying After Dark, Johnny Castaway, Sinksub)
Having some Nostalgia time with Dosbox….