> Hi, > I use the latest Codeweavers WINE and several DOS programs wouldn't > run correctly. Where can I find the best DOS emulator for Linux? Thanks!Clark, I have heard of VMware IIRC that really works well. But of course it is not free, but not too expensive. I don't know where to get it but can find out for you if you want. Warren
Hi, I use the latest Codeweavers WINE and several DOS programs wouldn't run correctly. Where can I find the best DOS emulator for Linux? Thanks!
O dosemu! Some advice: Use Caldera's builds with DrDOS.imgs if at all possible: it's set up (on a Caldera box) so that it can read and write to the Linux ext2 filesystem through Novell NetWare Lite, apparently. Anyway, the ext2 fs is available as drive L:\. (I believe this is undocumented; I found it by experimeting. If you don't mind installing everything from a floppy, (and saving to it if you want to see your work under Linux) the redhat version works fine with Freedos, especially xdos, which gives back use of the F-keys for programs like WP5.1. It's included under powertools. It's not very recent but it has never crashed for me (although, truly, I don't use it very much.) I cannot find the ext2 fs or any other partition from Freedos, so I find I must save my work to a floppy. Sheesh! On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 19:32:40 GMT, Clark Grizzwald <Clark.Grizzwald@f745.n202.z1.fidonet.org> spilled beer on the keyboard and the resulting short-circuit sent this:>Hi, >I use the latest Codeweavers WINE and several DOS programs wouldn't >run correctly. Where can I find the best DOS emulator for Linux? Thanks!
BillEBad, Thanks for the info. + tips.
Paul, Thanks for the info. Is DR-DOS still free or are they charging for it now?
On 10 Mar 2001 00:38:13 +0100, Paul Seelig <pseelig@mail.uni-mainz.de> spilled beer on the keyboard and the resulting short-circuit sent this:>BillEBadd@operamail.com writes: > >> O dosemu! Some advice: Use Caldera's builds with DrDOS.imgs if at all >> possible: it's set up (on a Caldera box) so that it can read and write >> to the Linux ext2 filesystem through Novell NetWare Lite, apparently. >> Anyway, the ext2 fs is available as drive L:\. (I believe this is >> undocumented; I found it by experimeting. >> >There is documentation accompanying "dosemu" and reading it doesn't >make anyone rely on experimenting to find "undocumented" features. ;-)Umm, my RH6.2 custom installation did not give me any dosemu documentation, and there is almost none about the config.files that the dosemu and xdos rpms I installed from powertools gave me. The DOSemu howtos are old and cryptic.> >Given that you have emufs.sys installed under c:\dosemu, you can >actually define any part of your ext2 filesystem as a DOS drive with >following entry in "config.sys": > > device=c:\dosemu\emufs.sys /home/pseelig > device=c:\dosemu\emufs.sys /an/other/dir/ectory > >Starting MS-DOS within "dosemu" one gets: > >---------- snip -------------- >Linux DOS emulator 1.0.1.0 $Date: 2000/07/03 $ >Last configured at Mon Mar 5 21:30:11 EST 2001 on linux >This is work in progress. >Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. >Bugs, Patches & New Code to linux-msdos@vger.rutgers.edu > >DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed > >Starting MS-DOS... > >[Host File System] drive D: is directory /home/pseelig/ >[Host File System] drive E: is directory /an/other/dir/ectory >[dosemu EMS 4.0 driver installed] >"Welcome to dosemu 1.0.0!" >C:\> >---------- snip -------------- > >Isn't this nice? ;-) > Cheers, P. *8^)Will try it right soon! Thanks. It would solve all my dosemu probs!
OK, I found the documentation of this at a DOSemu doc page accesible from DOSemu's home page that was exactly what I was looking for, and it had quite a few bits of other useful information. Thanks for the info, I will try it soon as I can get an editor to work (edit.com won't save a file for me.) I hope the original poster will find it more easily than I did. http://www.dosemu.org/docs/README/0.98/ On 10 Mar 2001 00:38:13 +0100, Paul Seelig <pseelig@mail.uni-mainz.de> spilled beer on the keyboard and the resulting short-circuit sent this:>BillEBadd@operamail.com writes: > >> O dosemu! Some advice: Use Caldera's builds with DrDOS.imgs if at all >> possible: it's set up (on a Caldera box) so that it can read and write >> to the Linux ext2 filesystem through Novell NetWare Lite, apparently. >> Anyway, the ext2 fs is available as drive L:\. (I believe this is >> undocumented; I found it by experimeting. >> >There is documentation accompanying "dosemu" and reading it doesn't >make anyone rely on experimenting to find "undocumented" features. ;-) > >Given that you have emufs.sys installed under c:\dosemu, you can >actually define any part of your ext2 filesystem as a DOS drive with >following entry in "config.sys": > > device=c:\dosemu\emufs.sys /home/pseelig > device=c:\dosemu\emufs.sys /an/other/dir/ectory > >Starting MS-DOS within "dosemu" one gets: > >---------- snip -------------- >Linux DOS emulator 1.0.1.0 $Date: 2000/07/03 $ >Last configured at Mon Mar 5 21:30:11 EST 2001 on linux >This is work in progress. >Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. >Bugs, Patches & New Code to linux-msdos@vger.rutgers.edu > >DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed > >Starting MS-DOS... > >[Host File System] drive D: is directory /home/pseelig/ >[Host File System] drive E: is directory /an/other/dir/ectory >[dosemu EMS 4.0 driver installed] >"Welcome to dosemu 1.0.0!" >C:\> >---------- snip -------------- > >Isn't this nice? ;-) > Cheers, P. *8^)