HX DOS Extender
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 10:33 pm
Anyone tried this on the AO486?
It seems pretty amazing... but, so far the videos and such I have found is people using it in DOSBox or on pretty high end PCs. Some even use it to run DOSBox from DOS, to get support for audio.
I found this video where someone managed to run Quake 2 and Hexen II in DOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dq0yaWZ8ZA
This is its original web-site. I read that the developer died unfortunately, but someone else has added one update to it since, which seems to have been two months ago, so the project might still be alive. But also... if it can run Quake 2 in DOS it might already be good enough for several things.
https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
This is the git of the newest version:
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX
It has a version 2.18 and a 2.19pre. Otherwise the latest version is 2.17, but 2.16 is the one the original developer considered stable, with 2.17 being a beta or something. I read someone should have gotten ScummVM to run under DOS with it, the Windows version of ScummVM that is, since there is also a DOS version of it, its just pretty old now.
I have been trying to use it for a few things. It needs some extra DLLs after being installed. One for OpenGL although that will probably not help much for AO486, but also other ones like SDL, to help run SDL apps, like ScummVM. So far no luck using it on AO486 though. Not sure what goes wrong, since it does not even seem to crash or throw errors, it just returns to DOS.
It seems pretty amazing... but, so far the videos and such I have found is people using it in DOSBox or on pretty high end PCs. Some even use it to run DOSBox from DOS, to get support for audio.
I found this video where someone managed to run Quake 2 and Hexen II in DOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dq0yaWZ8ZA
This is its original web-site. I read that the developer died unfortunately, but someone else has added one update to it since, which seems to have been two months ago, so the project might still be alive. But also... if it can run Quake 2 in DOS it might already be good enough for several things.
https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
This is the git of the newest version:
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX
It has a version 2.18 and a 2.19pre. Otherwise the latest version is 2.17, but 2.16 is the one the original developer considered stable, with 2.17 being a beta or something. I read someone should have gotten ScummVM to run under DOS with it, the Windows version of ScummVM that is, since there is also a DOS version of it, its just pretty old now.
I have been trying to use it for a few things. It needs some extra DLLs after being installed. One for OpenGL although that will probably not help much for AO486, but also other ones like SDL, to help run SDL apps, like ScummVM. So far no luck using it on AO486 though. Not sure what goes wrong, since it does not even seem to crash or throw errors, it just returns to DOS.