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Magic Carpet
Member
If this isn't an advertisement for why the Series S shouldn't exist, then I can't even.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Sure, why not I guess?
01011001
Banned
if your comment isn't an advertisement for why morning after pills are a great invention, then I can't even.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
But also: why?
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Because it's possible.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Consoles going beyond their boundaries and becoming something else will always be cool.
Magic Carpet
Member
Owch
01011001
Banned
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Man was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, etc...
BlackTron
Member
Truth is, this kinda sucks.
He can't even use a mouse. All that time and effort to install 98SE through DOSbox on a Xbox to play old PC games, and the only way to get mouse input is to assign a control stick.
I mean, chances are if you even remotely care about 90's PC games in the first place, not having a mouse is pretty much DOA. I was a bit nonplussed that he did not admit this giant glaring flaw, summing up the control stick as "getting the job done". I mean, to finish the setup process maybe.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Yikes
DemonGamerTTT
Member
I'm tired of always saying this... But tech illiterate people are sometimes rather anoying with their "why don't you just do x,y,z? Why don't you just buy x, y, z instead?".
Computer and hardware are always better when you can decide what do want to do with it... More options are ALWAYS a plus.
If it were for those kind of people to decide, we would never have emulation, modding and FPGAs... Is kind of intriguing how limited some people's minds are....
Computer and hardware are always better when you can decide what do want to do with it... More options are ALWAYS a plus.
If it were for those kind of people to decide, we would never have emulation, modding and FPGAs... Is kind of intriguing how limited some people's minds are....
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BlackTron
Member
I agree. It would be nice if you could choose to use a mouse with Windows 98 lol.
It's not *really* a "Windows 98 retro PC". It's a win98 running on Xbox as a cool little project, but its utility as an actual gaming box sucks because I mean, no mouse.
What are you going to play? Half-life? Point and click adventures? Brood war? Tinker away, but label it tinkering.
That seems to be an issue with that specific UWP version of DOSBox, no doubt it'll get patched in future. Gotta start somewhere before working out the bugs.
Why do people still use DOSbox? PCem and 86Box have far surpassed it with their superior 3DFX Voodoo/Glide emulation and support the S3 ViRGE for DirectX 2-5 games. Plus it runs well on SFF PC's like the Intel NUC and is less hassle to set up compared to a Series S.
I'm mean its cool and all to see it on the Xbox, but why?
BlackTron
Member
He's specifically using DOSbox here because you can load it through RetroArch, which is available as a UWP app.
He didn't use a Series S to get to DOSBox, he used DOSbox because that's what's on Series S. Of course it's less hassle to play PC games on a PC than Xbox, no kidding.