Posted September 13, 2015
Ok so it is this one?
http://www.cnet.com/products/toshiba-satellite-a45-s121-celeron-2-8-ghz-256-mb-ram-40-gb-hdd/specs/
with his graphics chipset:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Extreme-Graphics-2.2179.0.html
How much memory do you have on it by the way?
Quite low specs I guess, so I am unsure how fit it is to run DOSBox games. If you are not happy to its performance with DOSBox, nor you can get MS-DOS or FreeDOS to run on it nicely, then I don't know what to say. It doesn't seem that good for running old Windows (Direct3D) games either, due to the graphics chipset. Maybe 2D games are fine on it.
By the way have you tried the different renderer options in DOSBox config, in case one of them works better for you? On e.g. GOG games it seems to be quite often set to "surface" IIRC, but for me "ddraw" usually seems to work the best.
As for Linux Mint or LUbuntu, you can run Windows game (some at least) with WINE, but again the problem might be the low specs. I wasn't suggesting to use Linux on it to run games, but for other use (web browsing etc.).
http://www.cnet.com/products/toshiba-satellite-a45-s121-celeron-2-8-ghz-256-mb-ram-40-gb-hdd/specs/
with his graphics chipset:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Extreme-Graphics-2.2179.0.html
How much memory do you have on it by the way?
Quite low specs I guess, so I am unsure how fit it is to run DOSBox games. If you are not happy to its performance with DOSBox, nor you can get MS-DOS or FreeDOS to run on it nicely, then I don't know what to say. It doesn't seem that good for running old Windows (Direct3D) games either, due to the graphics chipset. Maybe 2D games are fine on it.
By the way have you tried the different renderer options in DOSBox config, in case one of them works better for you? On e.g. GOG games it seems to be quite often set to "surface" IIRC, but for me "ddraw" usually seems to work the best.
As for Linux Mint or LUbuntu, you can run Windows game (some at least) with WINE, but again the problem might be the low specs. I wasn't suggesting to use Linux on it to run games, but for other use (web browsing etc.).
Post edited September 13, 2015 by timppu