Intel Atom good for dos games?

[ExoMale]

for the past few hours I've been downloading dos games from GamesNostalgia website as they come packages setup ready to run where as I was having issues with dosbox standalone and at the same time I've just installed D-Fend reloaded so now looking at dos games that will require a standalone to run which through the whole time got me thinking about a netbook to run these on(did miss out on a hp mini for £20
Today, but ah well) for when I'm in bed or out visiting, but I keep seeing old results on google and mix results on what would be suitable which is actually quite ironic given the specs of computers back in those years of these games.

a netbook is more ideal for its size just sadly they all come with atoms, So are people talking rubbish or are the atoms actually quite useless for such a platform of games ?

 

[AiiR]

Considering they run well enough on a Rasperry Pi I'd say an Atom should handle them fine, yeah.

 

[Rroff]

Depends which atom CPU it is - the more recent ones are much better than the old single core atoms.

Some of the basic models xxxxf/g or whatever can be a bit slow held back by slow RAM but the rest aren't too bad - my Z3740 based tablet can run eve online at around 30fps.

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for replies.

I thought the same too about if they can run on a Pi they should run on a windows system it was just results I found were boarderline if the atom and gma graphics being suitable, mean all the dos games I've downloaded from that site goes up as far as 97/98 which I don't think they had anything for 2000 onwards anyways, but I don't know if it's the dosbox packaged setup that would be harder in the resources for low systems.

I have no idea what that hp mini I ended up missing out on was, but when I have been looking at netbooks in general over the weeks I was seeing a lot of n270 based which if I remember are single core with hyperthreading? Seems. Lot of netbooks £40 and under are the single cores with very rare findings of the dual core and most with windows 7 though I read xp would be better?.


I'm only thinking a netbook for how small they are and usually in better condition/working order than laptops, mean I've seen couple old laptops for less than £40 that are working, but don't feel money being spent well in overall terms.

 

[eddiew]

Seems likely that an Atom is quite capable of running DOS games... but that the slow part would be getting into windows to launch DOSbox in the first place. You might need a lot of patience every start up with the cheapest of the cheap

If you will literally do nothing with this except DOS games, single core and 2gb memory would work. Still many times faster than a 486 Go dual core for faster boot or if you might want to use the web browser or such on it.

(When in doubt, launch a DOSbox game on your regular PC and check its resource usage. It shouldn't be high at all!)