Dosbox should be 32-bit version on 64-bit

[xennex82]

16-bit DOS games are unplayable in the 64-bit version of Dosbox.

GoG.com games come with a 32-bit version of Dosbox, and this runs excellently.

On Ubuntu, the 32-bit version also runs excellently. The 64-bit version lags immensely and makes games unplayable.

Dosbox and its associated libraries should be made available on 32-bit always and be excempt of the no-packaging-32-bit in the future to begin with.

The 64-bit version should really be removed from the repos and 32-bit Dosbox packaged as the 64-bit version, with accompanying libraries, just like libc6-i386 is factually a 64-bit package (amd64).

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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

dosbox:
  Installed: 0.74-4.2
  Candidate: 0.74-4.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.74-4.2 500
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Stephen Kitt (steve-sk2)]

With what specific games are you seeing this issue? 32- and 64-bit versions of DOSBox are able to run the same programs. (I suppose you’re thinking of the fact that long mode can’t run 16-bit code, but that’s not an issue in DOSBox.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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