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 ?

 

[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.