DOSBox Interviews

Since many of us have been using DOSBox for years, I thought I’d point out a couple of new online interviews with the team behind the popular emulation software.

The first is at SourceForge, in celebration of the software becoming the site’s “project of the month”:

What has been your biggest surprise?

The fact that companies like Id Software, Sierra, 2K Games and GOG.com are using our software to re-release their old games.

And the other is at Sir Arthur’s Den:

DOSBox compatibility is pretty remarkable, in almost any case I’ve tried to run a game I have never had to touch the configuration file! Are you pleased with the current compatibility level or you think there is still a long way to walk to reach a (critical) compatibility point?

We put a lot of thought and work in the default configuration. As of such we can sometimes become a bit annoyed if people advice newbies to change certain settings from the default values, while the game they run doesn’t need it. Those changed settings might actually reduce compatibility for other games. We are quite pleased with the current compatibility level of the default configuration. It also helps that for alot of options you can just runtime change them from the command line quite easily, so if a game doesn’t want EMS or XMS loaded then you can just disable those.

These guys should get more recognition. They really deserve it.