> Beside that > leaves you in general also with the problem on how to transfer your > programs from your fancy Windows/Linux/macOS box to that VM. That's a > problem that that you simply do not have when programming ON DOS.
Well, I often use DOS in an emulator (pcem) because that emulates specific hardware from an old 4Mhz 8086 up to a Pentium Overdrive MMX and two dozen different graphics adapters from Hercules to a Stealth 3D 2000, which is really helpful if you test hardware-specific routines. Like all emulators/Vm's it uses Disk images (and isos for CDROM), so the easiest way to get your stuff from from your Linux machine to the VM is creating a disk image of your stuff, or an iso if it is too large for a disk. with dd and the loopback interface that's a matter of seconds. I made a script for it, so it's literally a one-liner on the command line. It's even easier if you run FreeDOS in Virtualbox, where the network drivers actually work instead of bailing out with a 'physical hardware networking not supported' error. Install the sshdos2 package and you can simply scp your stuff to the VM. cheers, Danilo On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 03:13, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 10/5/2023 4:44 AM, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hallo Herr Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel, > > > > am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2023 um 02:50 schrieben Sie: > > > >> On 10/3/2023 11:30 AM, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel wrote: > >>> There is no point in punishing everybody by shipping tools that most > > >>> people don't use. You can probably count all of the active DOS > > >>> developers on your fingers and toes. > >>> > >>> All of the various tools and compilers remain available for download. > > >>> Not being on the CD image is not the barrier it used to be. > >> But could you consider that there are so few people programming in and for > >> DOS simply because there are no simple to use programming environments > >> available and instead some folks keep pushing oversized Linux influenced > >> behemoths of programming environment which need to be shoehorned to run > >> and produce results within the basic limitations of DOS? > > i have said it before, but repeat it anyway: > Well, no matter how many time you repeat that, that doesn't make it in > MY opinion a valid argument. > > I joined some retro computing and BASIC groups and there are LOTS of > people that would just for old times sake like to program in (Free)DOS, > in something simple as a BASIC interpreter, like they did 30 years ago. > Not everyone wants to run DOS to play games. Or develop multi-megabyte > applications. And not everyone is running (Free)DOS in a VM. Beside that > leaves you in general also with the problem on how to transfer your > programs from your fancy Windows/Linux/macOS box to that VM. That's a > problem that that you simply do not have when programming ON DOS. > > Ralf > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
