Hi Jim, > There are several free ($0) virtual machine environments you can use. > VirtualPC, VirtualBox, VMWare are all very good. On my Linux system, > I use VirtualBox and DOSEmu, both for different things. I used to run > VMWare. That's still nice, but I'm trying out VirtualBox right now.
Other choices are Qemu and Bochs. The latter has a nice built-in debugger, so I like Bochs for debugging things which are hard to figure out on real hardware. Note that DOSEmu only works in Linux (maybe it can be ported to other x86 Unixes like Mac OS and BSD). Most others are multi platform or at least available for both Linux and Windows :-). Or course this does not help you if you want to use the full CPU speed for DOS or if you want to do some hardware related stuff such as interacting with custom hardware or flashing your BIOS. I think as long as you do not run things like SYS / FDISK / FORMAT, the risk of damaging your Windows by using FreeDOS is limited :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
