Hey, thanks for the Info. I use dosbox already. I like to use the Direct 3D and OpenGL shaders and enhancements. Thing is, even with dosbox - which is unlike many emulators (Winae, Zsnes ect.)...
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Hey, thanks for the Info. I use dosbox already. I like to use the Direct 3D and OpenGL shaders and enhancements. Thing is, even with dosbox - which is unlike many emulators (Winae, Zsnes ect.) - does not have a save state feature. When I play Bards Tale for example, I will be 2 levels down in a dungeon and get killed, Meaning 2 hours of gameplay has to be done over, so I have to start back from the Inn when I saved last, and do the entire dungeon over and hope to get back to the Inn, so I can save the game. With Auto Snapshots in Windows XP, I can load a snapshot that I took 5 -10 minutes ago and be closer to the part of the game I got killed on. Same goes for Might and Magic and many others. This also helps with corrupted or accidentally deleted save files. By the way I got 10 Minutes Snapshots going already, I just changed the setting in the Vmx file. What I also plan to do, is to use a program called Watch Directory. This will monitor the snapshot folder and make a copy of it somewhere else with the time and date on the file - so as not to overwrite - . This may seem a little ridiculous to some I am sure. But I love the old Roleplaying games, and I hate to have to repeat 2 hours of gameplay over every so often because of the old game save systems. I have a Six Core i7 with 16 GBs of ram in Windows 7 64 so when I am taking a snapshot in the background, I don't notice any lag at all. Thank you for your help.
