On 10/26/2016 10:49 AM, Shawn Highfield -> rick christian wrote:

 SH> As per the discussion for dos based apps.

$ sudo apt-cache search dosbox
dosbox - x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound and DOS



 SH> While I can use the pi3 as
 SH> a desktop, I disagree that it's a replacement. It's not /quite/ fast
 SH> enough for web surfing and video's. We had one going for Andrea but
 SH> it wasn't quite there. Picked her up a dirt cheap chrome book now.


My experience differs, and so would those using various Pi2/Pi2B/Pi2+/Pi3 as TV
playback boxes for all sorts of media at 720p & 1080p

Did you get the hardware codex support enabled??

I've found it makes quite the suitable replacement for the bog standard web
browser/email/word processing tasks including video playback.

If you want video playback you need the hardware decoder thats on the SoC.