1 GHZ? Isn't it too weak for Dosbox?
It may work for old games. With high-end Dos games like Daggerfall and X-Com: Apocalypse, even a 2000-2400MHz CPU isn't enough, though. I already tried it on two computers with different processor manufacturer and operation systems.I was running Dosbox without issues on a Nokia N900 which has a 600 MHz CPU, playing stuff like Dark Sun and The Dig.
486DX2 66MHz, 8MB RAM, 50MB hard drive space, and a local bus or better video cardIt may work for old games. With high-end Dos games like Daggerfall and X-Com: Apocalypse, even a 2000-2400MHz CPU isn't enough, though. I already tried it on two computers with different processor manufacturer and operation systems.I was running Dosbox without issues on a Nokia N900 which has a 600 MHz CPU, playing stuff like Dark Sun and The Dig.
On a very old old system. Celeron 2,4Ghz with Linux Mint LXDE. Before that I was running it on Athlon 2,0Ghz Windows 98 (both are 1 core) and had the same performance issues which I didn't have with older games like Syndicate, X-Com1, Darklands, etc.486DX2 66MHz, 8MB RAM, 50MB hard drive space, and a local bus or better video card
...or the Daggerdall reqs, so I can only guess that you're running DOSBOX on a totally f'ed up system...
I'm not really sure about that one(MIPS v. ARM) as I've never really seen any benches. Remember back in the day ARM was virtually non-existent while MIPS was in all of the best workstations/servers(SGI).https://sites.google.com/site/dosboxturbo/performance
This guy is claiming he can get 486 @40mhz performance out of a generic ARM CPU at 1ghz with his build of dosbox. MIPS is a slower than ARM, but not by much. So emulating a 486 33mhz is probably doable.