[OFB Cafe] Old video cards

[Daniel Cassidy]

Hi Tim,

On Feb 2, 2008 5:27 AM, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
> >
> > ... assuming I can find one, since they're no longer made.
> >
> > *sigh*  I have a feeling I'm going to end up buying a couple of
> > cards of
> > various chipset vintages and testing them live.
>
>         Just to hijack this thread, this makes me wonder if PCs are getting
> old enough that it is time for someone to come out with a vintage
> machine meant just to run older games and such. I have fond memories
> of a few old DOS based games, and what if there was a cheap, itty-
> bitty system-on-a-chip that had everything that was needed, e.g like
> the Atari mini-systems that have come out...
>
>         Of course, perhaps the best solution is to use something like
> VMware? Can it emulate the right set of video cards, etc.? Maybe Bochs?

These days DOSBox can do pretty much everything you're after, with
minimal effort. It does a *very* good job of emulating pretty much
every common combination of hardware from the good old days :).

Dan.