dm_mute: I purchased a game that boots using the DOSBox emulator. I was wondering if I can have it boot in DOSBox-X instead, as I prefer that DOS emulator. Thanks.

dm_mute: I purchased a game that boots using the DOSBox emulator. I was wondering if I can have it boot in DOSBox-X instead, as I prefer that DOS emulator. Thanks.

dm_mute: I purchased a game that boots using the DOSBox emulator. I was wondering if I can have it boot in DOSBox-X instead, as I prefer that DOS emulator. Thanks.

dm_mute: I purchased a game that boots using the DOSBox emulator. I was wondering if I can have it boot in DOSBox-X instead, as I prefer that DOS emulator. Thanks.

AB2012: It should work fine. I've tested other DOSBox alternatives in the past (eg, DOSBox Staging and the "DAUM" version of DOSBox (that added save-states), and they worked fine. If it's a fork of DOSBox then all the settings in the .conf files should work the same.

pds41: Off-topic, but how stable are the save states in DAUM? I haven't looked in to this for a few years, but last I heard was that they weren't very reliable and could cause unexpected behaviour when you restore one.

AB2012: It mostly seems to be fine to me though it depends on the game. I tried it in quite a few, eg, Prince of Persia (1989), Elite Plus, Crystal Caves, Hero Quest, etc, and it seemed to work well. Just a case of CTRL-F1 then assigning a desired key to QuickSave & QuickLoad. I suspect the simpler the game the fewer issues, plus there will probably be problems if DOSBox settings are changed between saving & loading. It's kinda weird that the main DOSBox developer has a "thing" against them even though it's a fairly normal feature for modern 8-16 bit emulators.

rtcvb32: I would say if the different system supports all the appropriate calls and manages it right, i don't see why not.

Though some software may not work right even in DosBox, as it doesn't use MS-DOS and you aren't running on a real BIOS. One such program i remember trying was a Qbasic program i did which was to make/access maps i make for D&D and the like. But that wasn't what broke, what broke was the font replacement com file i made, which failed to replace the 128+ (upper Ascii) characters with my own set of characters out.

Though that is a particular case, most games/programs just change the graphics mode which has nothing to do with font.

GoG more or less has set it's own configs to try and make the game work correctly, you may have to do a little elbow grease work to fill in details if something doesn't match correctly. Though i'd guess those are few and far between, as soundcard/graphics/speed are the only three things you need to worry about.

Also to note, there's an emulator you can use for the Raspberry Pi, which accurately emulates MS-DOS and dos environment, so you could be running on what more-or-less feels like actual bare-metal systems.

Darvond: There's also of course, actual DOS systems like FreeDos, but those require a bit more assembly, so to speak.