On Sunday 12 January 2003 01:27 am, Will Styles wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:58 am, Toshiro wrote:
> > Anybody knows why dosemu is not included with
> > Mandrake?
>
> Mandrake was incompetent with their dosemu packages
> (iirc in MDK 8.0 and 8.1, it DID NOT EVEN WORK in X
> mode - did MDK actually test their packages before
> release? imagine if MS shipped a version of Windows
> where command.com didn't work!) and did not even
> bother updating them since 1.0.1 (2000). they probably
> dropped them when they redid everything with gcc 3.2
> (MDK9) because they realised how hopeless the packages
> (and the packager) were. anyway, the current stable
> version of dosemu (1.0.2.1) is far from stable and a
> new stable version is expected within the next half
> year. in the mean time, try compiling dosemu 1.1.4.3
> which has substantially improved DPMI, SB and MIDI
> support.

You might also want to check into dosbox - its not nearly complete but looks 
like it has promise.

http://www.happypenguin.org/show?DOSbox

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