I'm getting a netbook for cristmas and was wondering if the downloadable version of Daggerfall would work on it properly, because I heard somewhere that you need a CD drive to get it to run properly with DOSbox. Is this true?

You can get it to work without a CD (in fact, the download version requires no CD) easily in DOSbox. However, you'll want to make sure that your netbook is fast enough to run the game and DOSbox. Just because it's an old game doesn't mean any modern computer can run it, because you have to run it through an emulator. And netbooks are typically marketed for their portability, not their processing power.

I have an EeePC 900A which is a lovely netbook, but it cannot run Daggerfall (it doesn't do well with video heavy anything). My dad has a cool HP netbook that he can watch streaming movies from NetFlix on, so his would have a much better candidate.

So it's all a matter of what's under the hood. If it's powerful enough, then getting it to run with DOSbox is a cinch. Heck, you can run DOSbox off a thumb drive, so having no CD is no problem at all.

Thanks. It's probably going to be one of the new windows 7 ones, so i get the feeling it will run just fine. If not, my family has other computers around the house that'll do just fine.

There are netbooks that can't run it? I find this hard to believe. My ancient 1Ghz laptop from 2002 can run it in DOSbox. Do they really still make GPUs works than the one I got in 2002 on a business computer?

Netbook cpus are tiny, and emulators svck up processing power like nobody's buisiness.

Yeah, but their performance in Windows leads me to believe they outclass my olde PIII any day. The only problem I noticed with Daggerfall on that box was the load times for maps were rather bad (though not nearly as bad as when I played AvP or Morrowind on there).

Oh well. I'm never going to believe anybody until I test it, which I shall do with any netbook I can borrow for 30 minutes this Christmas. I'm just a stubborn bastard that way.

It's playable on my Aspire One, although it gets to be a bit choppy in dungeons. It would probably be a bit quicker on the Atom N280 (the CPU in mine is an N270) as it has a slightly higher clock speed and frontside bus, but this is speculation on my part since I haven't had the opportunity to test it.

If you have the option though, I'd suggest you play on something with a decent processor (Pentium M/Pentium 4 and up should be fine).

Sadly, I do not. The computer i'm using now is a 9 year old mac.

i play it on an MSI wind U100. i just get slowdown in big buildings with lots of NPCs (mages guilds, etc), otherwise it plays well. with a mouse of course.

The ultimate thing would be to dual-boot Windows 98, I reckon. If that'll even run on a netbook. Daggerfall plays well with that, IIRC.

Hmm... I just may have to test that theory!