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It’s a bit hidden, but dead useful. Just make sure you also keep regular savegames, in case the save state gets broken. Can happen, especially on more recent DOS games, so it’s better safe than sorry. 🙂Save states are only available when you check “Use SVN core”.
As a nice little addition, both save and load state is also available in the “Special” widgets options then. ?Great! Hope your phone can run it good enough for the gameplay to be enjoyable. ?
I found that Win95 is running better in Magic Dosbox than it did on my real pc back then. It does crash and freeze occasionally (rarely), but not as badly as it did 25 years ago. ?You can use these hdd images. I’ve also included the config options for the different hdd sizes.
Should also be possible in MagicDosbox. You need an iso of your own Win95 copy of course, or at least your Win95 serial key. Apart from that, I think it should be possible to install Win95 exactly as in Dosbox on a Windows PC. Sources (=compatibility) are pretty much identical.
Yeah, should be this one: https://www.gsmarena.com/acer_liquid_z530-7526.php
I managed to squeeze some 1800 realtics out of my Note 2’s 1.6 GHz Exynos chipset a couple of years ago, which should be just barely enough. What you can try is activate performance governor. You need to be rooted for that, though, which will void your warranty, and is potentially dangerous. Maybe if you can get somewhere round 2000 realitcs stable, you might be able to play the game.
Haha, yes, Morrowind does that. ? Tbh, I never finished it, even though I put countless hours into it. It felt like a constant grind, with hardly any storyline, and all the generic dungeon design. It’s got a large fan base though, so it’s obviously a matter of taste. 😉
It requires a Pentium cpu, so that’s very demanding for a DOS game. 3000 realtics is in fact too low, 2000 may just barely be enough. May I ask what exact phone model and cpu you’ve got?
Lol, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’ve got loads of old 3,5″ disks hoarded, plus CD-ROM collections, and I’ve got 92 games in my GoG library by now. There’s so many games I would love to replay, if only I had the time. But still, I’m happy I’ve managed to replay at least some of my favourites. Come to think of it, I played (and finished) quite some gems on Magic Dosbox: Crusader – No Remorse, Doom, Realms of Arkania 2 & 3, several LucasArts adventures, Quest for Glory, Strike Commander, Ultima VI & VII, Wing Commander I-IV, Warcraft II. I don’t even want to start calculating the amount of play time I put into all these games. ?
Probably a performance thing. What happens when you run e.g. Monkey Island, or another non-demanding game? At, say, 3000 cycles or so.
Daggerfall needed a good 486 back in the day, and that requires some powerful emulation. My old Note 4 struggles with Daggerfall, too, and it has a 2.7 GHz cpu. A Snapdragon 805, which is utter crap at emulation, but still.To get an idea of your device’s performance, you can run this Magic Dosbox benchmark:
Lol, a lot trial & error, countless deadly strike widgets, and some less-used funtions like the Target widget. The great thing about Magic Dosbox is that if you’re missing a certain feature, you can just ask for it and it will be implemented if it’s somehow possible. And there are already so many functions, you can achieve almost anything with a little creativity.
After I had built this, and the Age of Empires & Ultima V layouts, layers were implemented. So if I had to create these layouts again from scratch, it would be much easier, and would require far less deadly strike widgets to show & hide all the icons.
What I do when I see an interesting layout is, I sort of reverse engineer them: import, launch, enter edit more, and take a look at every widget to see what it does.
@sandz you talking about my layout? If so, it’s actually very nice of you to respect the copyright, but I have absolutely zero problems with you sharing it. Feel free to upload and share it here if you like. ??
I made this purely for fun, and actually spent way more time designing the layout than playing the game. So as long as noone starts selling them on Google Play, I’d encourage anyone to tweak and optimise every layout posted here.
