You question is clear... but incomplete... What hardware are you talking about. There are *many* possibilities, but but different solutions for different hw and/or problems.
To name a few: VMware/Qemu/VirtualBox/DosBox/Boshs/Dosemu/etc... each acn do some nice little tricks :) Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Hi All, > > Thank you for such an interesting discussion and all the great work on > FreeDOS! > > I have managed to install FreeDOS with VMWare player with Windows XP and > it works great. > I'm using DOS 16/M so I disable EMM386, etc and have no problems. > > I now have the challenge of figuring out how to emulate some obsolete > hardware. My application > uses direct memory writes to an obsolete peripheral communications > device. I can see a couple of > solutions to this: > > 1) Re write the application to use WATTCP or something similar. > > 2) Leave the application alone and modify the emulator (like VMWare > Player) to provide a bridge between > the fixed shared memory addresses and some sort of standard Windows (or > even Linux) interfaces. > > Leaving the application alone has some benefits since it's pretty > complex, brittle and old. > > So option 1 is pretty obvious and I could run the app either with > FreeDOS booted directly on the hardware > or booted on VMWare under Liunx or Windows. > > Option 2 is what I'm trying to explore -- has anyone had experience with > this? Does either VMWare or > DOSEmu have capabilities in this area? How tough would it be to modify > either of these two environments > to provide some sort of memory range which is shared between FreeDOS and > the emulator which would > then communicate to the outside world? > > I hope my question is clear... > > Thanks! > > Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > It's time to go back to school! Get the latest trends and gadgets that > make the grade on AOL Shopping > <http://shopping.aol.com/back-to-school?ncid=aolins00050000000007>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
