On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > This brings up some points we should discuss after the 1.4 release. > > Possibly, the LSM metadata files should contain a hardware requirements > field. > > Maybe, programs which have special requirements possible get notes > added to the LSM for the end-user. For example, the long summary could > have things added like (Requires mouse and real hardware. Will not > run inside a virtual machine.) > > Possibly, we could relocate programs that require real hardware or > unusual requirements into a new group on the BonusCD. Therefore, > they would not be installed by default. > > We could add a “RUN.BAT” to each program that requires real > hardware. The batch could use V8Power Tools VINFO command to test if > it is a known VM. Then if one known incompatible emulators is detected, > print a message saying it is not supported and exit. > > There are a number of other things we could do as well. > > But, I think this is better suited for discussion after 1.4 is released.
Definitely a topic for after FreeDOS 1.4. :-) My preference would be the much simpler route and only include programs that work on the popular (well known & supported) virtual machines and on real hardware. I think the issue is a few games. So maybe that means we wouldn't include some games in "1.5" or "2.0" (or whatever comes after "1.4") and we would include some others. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
