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Brandon486 Benchmarks
I plan to benchmark my 2 486s, one is a 33MHz Intel 486SX and the other has a 66Mhz AMD 486. I have LINPACK for DOS, so I should be able to compile my results and let you know what DOSBox Cycle speed is ideal.
The only issue is that I want to be able to easily transfer data to and from my 486s, so I bought a few (3) CF adapters with PCI bracket out of Hong Kong, so I can make the 486 think the CF is a hard drive and my linux laptop will think its a removable disk.
Once the adapters come in the mail I'll publish my findings here on the forum.		2010-03-1210:15 PM
HorvatMRe:486 Benchmarks
> so I should be able to compile my results and let you know what DOSBox Cycle speed is ideal. Uh... the cycles in DOSBox are machine-dependent.		2010-03-1311:19 AM
BrandonRe:486 Benchmarks
Well I can give a rough estimate of what DOSBox cycle count to use, anyways.
2010-03-1311:30 AM
BrandonRe:486 Benchmarks
Well the CF adapters came and I got a 32MB one with FreeDOS. I figured out that the codebase I have for Fun500 6 is too slow to me used, so I'm going to be brainstorming a new design.
2010-03-2012:22 PM
HorvatMRe:486 Benchmarks
So what's Fun500 6.0 going to be like? An improvement of 5.x (hopefully) or yet another complete redesign? Why do you think it's too slow? Try optimizing it.		2010-03-216:17 AM
BrandonAbout Fun500 6
I do not know for sure what Fun500 6 will bring, I do know that my FreeBASIC Windowing engine is too slow on a 486 to be used. I mean slow ...as in unreative.
Fun500 6 will not be just a service pack to 5 or it would be 5.x.x, 6 means there will be a major rewrite. Most of the "problems" you have with Fun500 5 are that way by design, but Fun500 6 try to work a little better with them. I do plan to make an extensive dialog system, however.		2010-03-219:13 AM

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