Hi Christoph,
> From what I've gathered getting FreeDOS running on "modern" hardware is > not trivial (if certain features are required/wished for) and the > general experience running it in a virtual environment might be much > better. I'll probably first go this (virtual) route and later... That depends a lot on the specific feature. I would say running DOS on for example 2019 bare metal hardware really is trivial, but you may not get any sound from your 1999 DOS game for Sound Blaster 16. Mouse, keyboard and VGA support will probably work just fine and the game may support internal speaker sound output as fallback. As your goal is to write new games, I am looking forward to hear from others about their experiences with Allegro (and maybe SDL) for games and other apps which can run on DOS (and maybe all other platforms). Regards, Eric PS: About the UEFI discussion, it does not matter for DOS or apps whether you have a BIOS or just a CSM on your UEFI. Both work LIKE a BIOS for DOS and the apps and that is what matters. It might be possible to load a third party CSM on UEFI-only systems, maybe by boot loader, but I am not aware of any proven combination for that. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
