[Irinikus]

This video demonstrates DOS emulation performance on a Silicon Graphics Octane2 equipped with dual R14K's@600MHz.

[TruHobbyist]

Quite interesting that a game that ran fluidly on 486 (max 100mhz) and pentium (max 200mhz iirc) processors runs that slow on a dual 600mhz beast.

Either dosbox is a badly designed software program (C++???) or it is just designed for todays gigahertz cpus that compensate its design flaw with bare processing speed.

I would *love* to see a native Warcraft 2 port on Irix.

Edit: Thanks for the video, Irinikus!!!

[Irinikus]

Quite interesting that a game that ran fluidly on 486 (max 100mhz) and pentium (max 200mhz iirc) processors runs that slow on a dual 600mhz beast.

Either dosbox is a badly designed software program (C++???) or it is just designed for todays gigahertz cpus that compensate its design flaw with bare processing speed.

I would *love* to see a native Warcraft 2 port on Irix.

Edit: Thanks for the video, Irinikus!!!

It's a pleasure!

Emulation certainly isn't the answer if you want good gaming performance.

I would also like to see more games ported to IRIX, as you get far better performance.

That being said, games that are designed to run in Windows 95 do seem to run extremely well in SoftWindows 95 (Diablo, Doom 95, as well as Hexen 95 for example.)

[praetor]

This is very exciting. I wonder how well DosBox would work on my 400mhz Octane.

[gijoe77]

This is very exciting. I wonder how well DosBox would work on my 400mhz Octane.

not all that great honestly - the gcc build is the one that seems to work the best so far, the MIPSpro build is still not quite working 100%, but I don't know how much faster a MIPSpro build would actually be

[praetor]

Yeah. The GCC build went down without {mostly} a hitch. Except now the keyboard layout is all weird, and when I set the keyboard layout in the config file, it doesn't fix it :\

[necron2600]

For the keyboard issue..
try this:
usescancodes=false

dosbox's default config gives a messed up keyboard on IRIX, but its just a config adjustment to correct.

[praetor]

Tee hee! It works :3

You're a scholar and a gentleman

Now for some gaaaammmmmes

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It does indeed run-ish on my 400mhz Octane. It just runs like it's a 386. Command and Conquer is unplayable, but older titles feel like what you'd expect on a 386 or slow 486. Pretty slick nonetheless.

[necron2600]

Every game plays differently within dosbox.. just make sure your CPU usage is slightly under 100% .. if its pegged all the time you need to lower the dosbox CPU cycles.  If its under utilizing the CPU then increase CPU cycles with the Function keys.

Some config items of note: (note: not 'full' config.. just interesting pieces of it)

output=opengl   # versus surface
frameskip=20
scalar=normal2x
core=simple
cycles=2000      # the gcc compiled version 073 with O3 optimizations works with cycles=2000 and higher well 

[mixer]
rate=11025
blocksize=4096
prebuffer=40

[midi]
mpu401=none


[sblaster]
oplmode=auto
oplrate=11025