Shocking!

[cheshirenoir]

Now I know what all that bad Karma stuff on Friday was about! It was so my "good karma" was enough to get a special treat I found sitting in my inbox when I got home.

Ladies and Gentlemen, DOSBox 0.70

Now capable of running System Shock perfectly. Yes you heard me, Perfectly.

Not at 5 FPS, rock solid, beautiful, fast, VGA. (VGA May not sound impressive, but this game came out before DOOM1)

Oh and full sound.

"L. L. Look at you Hacker..."

(if you have never played System Shock 1, fire up DOSBox and give it a go! Arguably the first "sneak em up" and still one of the best story lines. There is just so much gameplay in here. Make sure you get the CD version as it has SHODAN's voice. SHODAN is a scary bitch!)

Comments

[mikey-ob.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite games ever, but I think I recall that SS was released by Origin after Doom had hit. I used Shodans voice sample in many Bio Mekanik and Heratech tracks...only one other person spotted them, I even wrote to Origin and got permission to use the Look at you Hacker sample.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. Mind you I understand my confusion. There were only 4 MONTHS between them.

First time I ever saw it running was on your PC from memory.

[gevauden.livejournal.com]

only one other person spotted them

That'd be me then. :)

SS was one of my favorite games ever. I think I need to track down a copy and play it again. I can probably still remember my way through most of the game, playing it through as many times as I did.

[tiberius-n.livejournal.com]

Mmm system shock. Ohh and btw i have someone who is interested in talking about getting a mame comp into a arcade shell.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

Feel free to give em my gmail address.

[zey.livejournal.com]

The other alternative would be FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/). It's definitely a mature project now and includes a LiveCD ISO.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

Not in my case, it isn't.

I'd have to install another HDD. (Primary drive is a RAID 0 pair)

DOSBox runs natively from within Windows XP, Mac OS/X or Linux, so no need to set up dual boot / multiboot environments.

[zey.livejournal.com]

Hmm. FreeDOS should run on a vmWare virtual disk without any hassles.

(Personally, I'm a fan of the old HDD cradle concept over multiboot systems anyway. To use another OS, you just unlock and slide out one disk and slide and lock in another. That way you don't need to care about whether a badly behaved OS (eg, Windows) is going to trash your boot setup.)

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

Hmm. FreeDOS should run on a vmWare virtual disk without any hassles.
Except then your emulation speed is limited by VMWare (which is definitely NOT up to the task of running SS. Tried that 3 weeks ago, with both FreeDOS and MSDOS6.2. Also tried the M$ Virtual machine)

Personally, I'm a fan of the old HDD cradle concept
Again, with the caddies, no use as my primary array is RAID0

Trust me, I looked at all sorts of solutions to run SS. This is, by far, the easiest and fastest.

DOSBox is NOT an alternative OS. It's a DOS Emulator.