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Keep in mind you're comparing x86 to MIPS as well. MIPS is much slower than x86.
 
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I was running Dosbox without issues on a Nokia N900 which has a 600 MHz CPU, playing stuff like Dark Sun and The Dig.
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.
 

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I was running Dosbox without issues on a Nokia N900 which has a 600 MHz CPU, playing stuff like Dark Sun and The Dig.
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.
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...
 
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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...
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.
 

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Best thing I found for emulation so far is a hacked PSP 2000. Can emulate a lot of shit and plays PS1 games... natively sort of. There's also a N64 emulator which apparently runs some games reasonably well but I never cared about that really. I use it for NES and NEOGEO stuff, mostly.
 

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This guy is running Daggerfall on a HTC Desire (specs similar to the Xperia Play) and it does look kind of sluggish:



Turn off the volume and skip to the 9 minute mark for gameplay.
 

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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.
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).

But I have a selection of ARM9 - cortex-a9 ARM devices and can probably cobble together at least a basic CPU bench eventually.

OTOH it'll really all be about dynamic recompilation as in, is it there? how good is it? etc.

On psx, I see that ps2psxe (ps2 native psx emu) got a public release last year, and looks pretty good on the compatibility listings. So given c. 300MHz MIPSIII/IV(kinda) CPU v. 1GHz MIPS2 using dynarec + GPU should get to almost perfect psx emu assuming someone does it.

(The old psx demo that I saw apparently ran under some other OS and was provided(I'm guessing) by Ingenic(no source) based on an update to the video comment mentioning provided by Chinese, no source [EDIT] Big fscking surprise with those malleable ethics... [/EDIT])
 

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