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 -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/
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