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		wiz21c on Jan 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, W... IIRC it's because DosBox doesn't progress much (well, TBH, they don't release much, but their svn is quite active) DosBox-X may also be better at some timing critical stuff such as demo's.

wiz21c on Jan 6, 2021 [–]

I confirm that DosBox-X runs Imphobia disk magazine which is doing some very accurate vsync timing (basically switching color palettes several times during the screen refresh to display 48 colours on a 16 colours EGA display)

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