>> A hypervisor that can run dosbox and make modern hardware work >> with old dos programs anyone? How about dosbox running on a Pentium 133 >> or a Pentium 166 machine with 16 megs of ram? > > Insufficient demand to justify the effort.
There may not be a lot of demand, but I see it as an interesting hack for someone to try. Actually, I proposed something like that a few years ago: create a custom Linux "spin" (mini-distribution) that boots a minimal environment, and starts up DOSEmu on virtual console 1, immediately booting a copy of FreeDOS. Maybe you can even provide the option to start additional DOSEmu+FreeDOS instances on the other virtual consoles, just by connecting to them and "logging in" (probably by pressing Enter). http://www.freedos.org/jhall/blog/?id=20090422-143518 I don't know if it's possible to run multiple console DOSEmu instances on the same box, since I've only ever tried to run one (and XDOSEmu at that). Yes, that's overkill for booting DOS on a modern computer, but an interesting idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
