Talk:PC Emulator Comparisons
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MIDI, soundfonts and software synth solutions in Sound Cards section?
Lots of projects there for this job either via software implementation or FPGA solutions (similar to FPGA-based emulators, this also needs to be mentioned in that page *FPGA), any volunteer?
Here's why using soundfonts and MIDI is beneficial for emulators like DOSBox-Pure;
useful resources;
- https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=52977
- https://www.philscomputerlab.com/roland-midi-emulator-project-20.html
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/
- https://github.com/skjelten/emusc
- SC-55mkII emulation WIP
- FluidSynth with MT-32 (demonstration)
- Roland SC-55 Soundfont by EmperorGrieferus (useful for DOSBox forks)
- PhilsComputerLab: General MIDI and Soundfonts (useful for DOSBox forks)
- PC emulators built-in solutions etc...
Ahayri (talk) 15:47, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
CD/DVD copy protection emulation
As i mentioned earlier in Talk:Main_Page#New_page_for_CD.2FDVD_copy_protection_emulation section, i think it's worth to mention this kind of software in here. Ahayri (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Done
Suggestion: Move rest of x86 emulator section here
This page has everything except the list of emulators. It's odd that IBM PC emulators don't have a page of their own, and that x86 stuff takes up so much of a page with "Pong Consoles" in its name Phredreeke (talk) 18:34, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Suggestion: remove Gravis Gamepad
There's nothing particularly special about the Gravis GamePad that an emulator would require specific support for it; it's a standard game port peripheral with two axes and four buttons. The entire listed row of emulators should support it. Perhaps an 'Input Methods' category would be better suited, and Game Port could be added as one of the categories.
PCBox
PCBox is a fork of 86box that continually merges all upstream commits. Therefore it should really mirror the 86box categories in the case where anything is marked 'unknown'
UTM?
Perhaps this should be added to the list? It uses QEMU and runs Windows XP and onwards on Macs
+ What about the 3D acceleration capabilities of UTM, is it good? According to their website UTM currently lacks 3D acceleration for Windows due to no GPU emulation/virtualization support (like OpenGL or DirectX). So, software rendering seems like the only option. [1] Ahayri (talk) 23:48, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- - I don't have a Mac so I can't test it. I think it technically qualifies but it's not developed for games Phredreeke (talk) 11:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- + I previously added UTM to the Hypervisors page because of its virtualization capabilities. However, I don't think UTM emulator belongs to this page at this moment. Perhaps we should wait for further development or news about the project before adding it here.
