DOSBox compatibility list

This is a compatibility list for DOSBox on the Pandora console. You may also want to look at this non-Pandora specific list.

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Also note: it has been reported that DOSBox works faster before Hotfix 4 or so (of the Pandora's firmware).[1] The reason has not been explored.

List

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Game title	Status	MHz	FS2	DOSBox version1	Year	Display mode	Comments
Alley Cat	Perfect	750	0	0.74svn	1984	CGA
Alien Carnage	Not working	?		0.74	1993	VGA	I had Alien Carnage crash on me three times. -[2]
Alien Carnage	Works well	700	2	0.74svn	1993	VGA	{{{1}}} -[3]
Alone In the Dark	Works well	?	?	0.74svn	1992		"works well with slow details" [4]
Battle Isle 2	Works well	801		0.74	1994		At 4000 cycles. worked well - played first map - touchscreen and nubs did an excellent job -[5]
Blake Stone	Works well	850	7	0.74svn	1993	VGA	runs great with the mouse if in the game menu configuration you set mouse sensitivity to Max. [6]
California Games 2	Not working	?		0.74	1993		Doesn't load. -[7] (note: there may be a solution)
Cannon Fodder	Works well	825		0.74	1993		-[8]
Captain Comic	Perfect	825		0.74	1988	EGA	Tested at max cycles. flawless -[9]
Carmageddon	Not working	?		0.74	1997		odd vertical lines and the frames are extremely choppy. -[10]
Civilization 1	Perfect	?		0.74	1991		[11]
Comanche: Maximum Overkill	Works well	700		0.74	1992		In config remove clouds and set detail to low. runs ok [at 500Mhz]. OVerclock to 650 or 700 and it runs pretty good. -[12]
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle	Works well	865	0	0.74svn	1991	EGA	Cycles set to "max", in Minimenu with Background killer. Almost perfect but occasionally stutters.
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine	Works well	865	0	0.74svn	1991	EGA	Cycles set to "max", in Minimenu with Background killer. Almost perfect but occasionally stutters.
Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Babysitter	Works well	865	0	0.74svn	1991	EGA	Cycles set to "max", in Minimenu with Background killer. Almost perfect but occasionally stutters.
Commander Keen 8: Dead in the Desert	Playable	865	0	0.74svn	2009	EGA	Info. Cycles set to "max", in Minimenu with Background killer. Stutters more than official games.
Dark Forces demo	Playable	825		0.74	1995		[13]
Descent	Playable	825		0.74	1995		runs slow with graphic settings set to the lowest. not what I'd call playable but not completely unplayable either. -[14]
Dragon Lore	Works well	?		0.74	1994		Very playable, although I haven´t entered combat yet. -[15]
Dreamweb	Perfect	?		0.74	1992		seems pretty flawless but I only played it for a minute. -[16]
Duke Nukem 3D demo	Not working	825		0.74	1996		Tested at max cycles. not playable. loaded and brought up the menu but with the demo playing in the background, I was probably getting 1-2 fps and then freeze. [17]
Dune	Works well	500		0.74	1992		[18]
Dungeon Hack	Not working	?	?	0.74svn	1993		Doesn't work. [19]
Dungeon Keeper	slow	?		0.74	1997		it is very much sub 5FPS and I had to overclock to 850, whack up DosBox's cycles to a mad amount, and stick on the dynarec -[20]
Ecstatica	Playable	?		0.74	1994		Looks good but performance may crawl in an action-packed scenario. -[21]
Elder Scrolls Arena	Playable	801		0.74	1994		4000 cycles. too slow. but it was in a way playable but only if you´re a die hard enthusiastic. -[22]
Elder Scrolls Dagerfall	Not working	801		0.74	1996		4000 cycles. too slow. installation processed finished but afterwards it didn´t want to start, cause of some cd problems. will look into that later. -[23]
Eye of the Beholder	Works well	?		0.74	1990		[24]
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon	Works well	?		0.74	1991		[25]
Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor	Works well	?		0.74	1993		[26]
Fallout 1	Slow	830		0.74	1997		[27]
Fantasy General	Works well	801		0.74	1996		4000 cycles. played first map - touchscreen and nubs worked very well -[28]
Gabriel Knight 1	Works well	?		0.74	1993		"works very well" -[29]
Gabriel Knight 2	Works well	?		0.74	1995	SVGA	worked very well. It had a small hang-up on the title screen and is a little skippy in some of the game-play but most of the game play has been smooth. -[30] Very playable, cutscenes with occasional stuttering but it doesn´t disrupt the flow of the story. Unfortunately, its lags horribly when some kind of background scrolling takes place...Blame the SVGA graphics and the lack of hardware acceleration. -[31]
Gateway	Works well	865	0	0.74svn	1992	VGA	Cycles set to "max", in Minimenu with Background killer.
God of Thunder	Works well	?		0.74	1993		[32]
Grand Theft Auto	Not working	825		0.74	1997		really slow and only half the screen was visible. -[33]
Harvester	Slow	?		0.74	1996		Choppy cursor, definitely not playable. . -[34]
Jazz Jackrabbit 1.2 (CD)	Works well	850		0.74	1995	VGA	See instructions here. Might have weird bug of "left" being held all the time... Okay at 500Mhz, "More-or-less fullspeed" at 850Mhz[35]
Jill of the Jungle	Not working	865	0	0.74svn	1992	VGA	Doesn't go past episode selection screen.
King's Quest 6	Playable	825		0.74	1992		Tested at max cycles. Start-up was slow but game play is good and the voices are working well. There was, however, no music with the default soundcard settings. After fooling with the game settings, I managed to get music but, in the process, completely destroy the frame rate. So mark it as playable with voices but without music. -[36] [37]
Knights of Xentar	Playable	?		0.74	1995		Despite the skippy sound, Knights of Xentar works fine. -[38]
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos	Playable	600		0.74	1993		Runs fine with cycles=1750, fullscreen=800x480, output=overlay... 4000 cycles. intro worked but after selecting a character the game crashed. might have to try that another time. -[39]
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards	Works well	?		0.74	1987		[40]
Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail	Slow	?		0.74	1996	SVGA	Maybe too taxing on the graphics department (SVGA graphics and lots of background animations to make things worse). Choppy cursor, definitely not playable. . -[41]
Little Big Adventure	Works well	830		0.74	1994		[42]
Lost Eden	Works well	?		0.74	1995		Very playable (little slowdowns when certain characters speak but nothing to worry about). -[43]
The Lost Vikings demo	Works well	?		0.74	1992		a quick test of the demo seems to be mostly full speed. -[44]
Magic Carpet 1	Slow	?	?	0.74svn	1994	VGA	[45]
Magic Carpet 2	Playable	800	8	0.74svn	1995	VGA	Works better than Magic Carpet 1. Put everything on lowest including screen size (about quarter screen) [46]
Marble Cooking	Works well	?		0.74	1994		For Marble Cooking (and DOS games in general) run the batch file (START.BAT). Works flawlessly for me that way -[47]
Master of Magic	Works well	?		0.74	1994		at low clock runs great, but a few 'traqnsitions' (when switching between screens) slow down, so you have to run clocked up so that its playable; I didn't complete any sessions, just fired it up and fiddled around, but looks like it'd be playable. -[48]
Master of Orion 2	Playable	700+		0.74	1996		Works well, SOUND NOT TESTED, Needs at least 5000 cycles, runs at clocks of 500mhz but runs smoothly at 700+ (requires mouse remap.)[49]
Menzoberranzan	Playable	?	?	0.74svn	1994		Works, but slow. [50]
Might and Magic 1	Not working	801		0.74	1986		4000 cycles. dos version always wanted the cd and I had no time to find out how to cope with it. -[51]
Might and Magic 3	Perfect	801		0.74	1991		4000 cycles. excellent -[52]
Might and Magic 4	Perfect	801		0.74	1992		4000 cycles. excellent, absolutely playable -[53]
Might and Magic 5	Perfect	801		0.74	1993		4000 cycles. excellent, absolutely playable -[54]
NetKeen	Works well	860	4	0.74svn	2011	EGA	configuration Info. See: How to get NetKeen working on the Pandora. Set to FS4. Works best if the other players live close to you.
Nicky Boum	Not working	860	0	0.74svn	1992	VGA	No speed throttling; runs either too fast or too slow. Amiga version's better anyway. [55]
Noctropolis	Perfect	?		0.74	1994		No wonder it works beautifully...After all it was a 1994 game with low requirements (on the 386-SX range and no 3D graphics involved). -[56]
One Must Fall 2097	Works well	800		0.74	1994		Runs well if a little sluggish at 800mhz, turning off a bunch of video options helped. Controls are a bit tricky to set up, you have to set a nub to joystick mode, then in Dosbox config set the joystick to button swap (not doing this will crash when using button 2), then ctrl+f1 after you run Dosbox to map joystick 1 and 2 to your gaming buttons. Left nub is joystick 2 in OMF config. -[57]
Phantasmagoria	Works well	825		0.74	1995		Tested at max cycles. worked very well. It had a small hang-up on the title screen and is a little skippy in some of the game-play but most of the game play has been smooth as have the cut scenes (even at full screen). -[58]
Prince of Persia	Perfect	?	0	0.74svn	1990		[59]
Princess Maker 2	Works well	700		0.74	1993		Runs sluggish at 500mhz, touchscreen is a useless mess. Playable at that speed but will have sound slowdown. Ran fine at 700mhz. 800mhz+ might prevent occasional music skip. -[60]
Wing Commander: Privateer	Slow	?		0.74	1993		tried privateer and i thought it was too slow to play -[61]
Psycho Pinball	Playable	?		0.74	1994		Fast scrolling games aren´t friendly with Dosbox in its current state (maybe hardware acceleration could give the needed boost). The Sega Genesis version will suit you better. -[62]
Quest for Glory 1 (VGA remake)	Works well	800		0.74	1991	VGA	"requires overclocking to ~800MHz for sound and movement to run smoothly." -[63] "works great" -[64]
Quest for Glory 4 (CD)	Works well	?		0.74	1994	VGA	works great -[65]
Raptor: Call of the Shadows	Works well	500 or 600		0.74	1994		Runs pretty well. -[66] Video
Realms of the Haunting	Slow	800	?	0.74svn	1997		won't run smoothly even when overclocking to 800mhz and using dos/32a extender. it runs smoothly in the indoors levels, but when outside it is about 1 fps, 2 at best. [67]
Sam & Max Hit the Road (demo)	Works well	825		0.74	1993		Tested at max cycles. incredibly slow without sound but pretty much full speed with sound. -[68]
Second Reality (demo)	Playable	500		0.74	1993		at 500mhz it didn't work so well, but setting the pandora to run a bit faster it was pretty smooth on most parts with sound. -[69]
Sim City 2000	Works well	?		0.74	1994		[70]
StarGunner	Works well	700	2	0.74svn	1996	VGA	scrolling text at the beginning runs slow. [71]
Stonekeep	Playable	?		0.74	1995		Surprisingly, it´s nearly playable...well, at least when it comes to basic dungeon crawling (combats decently smooth but that´s one-on-one so far!) FMV cutscenes stutters horribly. -[72]
Space Quest 6	Playable	?		0.74	1995		Seems to need a little push to be enjoyable (it´s actually playable if you have low standards but after a while it may get boring due to low walking speed, even at its max settings). -[73]
Star Trek 25th Anniversary	Works well	500		0.74	1992		"I have no idea if it's actually full speed, but all the graphics look sweet, the sound and midi music play fine and the mouse / touchscreen is very useable!" -[74]
Star Wars: X-Wing	Playable	800		0.74	1993		Running it @800Mhz and Max cycles in dosbox and digital sound off within the game, it actually run quite smooth in some places. -[75] Video, 2nd video (no music)
System Shock 1	Slow	801		0.74	1994		4000 cycles. worked but too slow even at low details -[76]
UFO: Enemy Unknown	Playable	500		0.74	1994		"Touchscreen seems to work OK at 500Mhz but it goes a bit odd at 750Mhz so I had to use the nubs instead :) The zooming in and out of intercepts is jerky but tactical games seem to work fine." -[77]
Terminal Velocity	Playable	825		0.74	1995		run slow with graphic settings set to the lowest. not what I'd call playable but not completely unplayable either. -[78]
Tomb Raider demo	Not working	825		0.74	1996		Tested at max cycles. not playable. It loaded to gameplay and then tanked after I took 3 steps at about 5 fps. [79]
Ultima Underworld 1	Works well	801		0.74	1992		4000 cycles. [80]
Ultima Underworld 2	Works well	801		0.74	1993		4000 cycles. intro of UW2 [played] without stuttering or anything, but without a mouse it´s quite exhausting to play -[81]
Vinyl Goddess from Mars	Playable	865	0	0.74svn	1995	VGA	Slows down often. Might be playable with higher frameskip. [82]
Wacky Wheels	slow			0.74	1994	VGA	tried wacky wheels and its very slow -[83]
Warcraft 2	Playable	?		0.74	1995	SVGA	being in SVGA does slow things down quite a bit, but with some overclocking it actually plays pretty well; with a lot of action going on it might slow down, but you can definitely play the first couple levels (I did) in the scenario -[84]
Warlords 2 Deluxe	Playable	800		0.74	1995		Playable at 500mhz, touchscreen works fine. Still sluggish at 800mhz though, scrolls map tile by tile pretty slowly. Don't try this one if you're not patient. -[85]
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe	Perfect	650		0.74	1990		Playing with touch screen works really well! Very quick and responsive at 600MHz, still very playable at 500Mhz.
Wing Commander	Works well	?		0.74	1990		ran great. no problems that I could see. -[86]
Wing Commander 2	Works well	?		0.74	1991		maybe a little slow during some parts but completely playable. -[87]
Wizardry 6	Perfect	?		0.74	1990		[88]
Wizardry 7	Perfect	?		0.74	1992		[89]
Xargon	Playable	865	0	0.74svn	1993	VGA	Slow & stutters. Might be playable with higher frameskip...

¹The latest, 0.74svn, was released on November 9, 2010.

²frameskip