Hi Karen: If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install FreeDOS. I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode, but, I don't think FreeDOS would recognize the sata drive. Seems like I did boot a cd-rom containing MS-DOS one time, but, that may have been another laptop. There is no serial port, though, so it wouldn't do anything but beep. I guess I could run Randy Formenti's morse program and get DOS output in morse code, but, that would be tedious. If you have a machine with a serial port, and a serial synth, no reason it wouldn't work. Sorry for the confusion.Hi Karen: Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Karen Lewellen Hi Bret, Thanks for that answer. Well then my question is if freedos can actually be installed in an actual, instead of virtual environment? If not, then why not? Because DOS is my only operating system, I have no issues locating actual computers, by which I mean p3 and p4 machines for my efforts. As a journalist and media professional, I must know firmly that any tool I am using is reliable. I respect that for some DOS is fun, but if one wants to work seriously, is freedos even worth considering, at least if one cannot use it on physical hardware? Kare On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Bret Johnson wrote: > Karen: Inside a Virtual Machine, ALL hardware is virtualized to some degree or other -- you never get direct access to the real hardware (whether it's keyboard or mouse or video screen or hard drive or serial port or even the clock). Exactly what gets virtualized through to the VM and exactly how it gets passed through depends on the VM. Different VM's do some things better than others. I've played around a little bit with different VM's (VMWare, Bochs, DOSBox, QEMU, VirtualPC, PCEm, and others). None of them are very easy to set up. and they all have their limitations and quirks. At least for my purposes, I still find VMWare to be better than the others even though I still consider it really pretty bad and don't do anything serious with it. And again, the main problem I have with VMWare is that it does not pass the keyboard though to the VM like it should and the keyboard is VERY critical in DOS (far more critical than the mouse). _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user |
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