On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 10:03, Thomas Desi <t...@mttw.at> wrote: > > Hi Liam, > > maybe this is not the place to ask, but, vDOS looks nice. Strangely it can > not run the »Eve.exe«. > (Neither does DOSbox). Funny. Only FreeDOS allows. Might be a video issue.
I am not sure why you are replying to me, as I did not recommend vDos, link to it or anything. You were the one who introduced it to the thread. Personally, I do not routinely run Windows for anything anywhere. I use Linux and macOS both at home and at work. I keep Windows around on most of my machines, mainly for reflashing firmware and things, but it's not in daily, weekly or even monthly use. I am vaguely aware of vDos as there is a Mac port of it, which is used for running DOS WordPerfect on Macs: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/vdoswp.html I have tried that and it works. The font rendering is nice, the host-OS interoperability is nice, but it also feels like a fragile solution to me and I do not routinely use it. When I want to use DOS on a modern 64-bit OS, I run it in a VM. For me, usually VirtualBox, because it is both FOSS and cross-platform. However it is hard to move files between host and guest OSes. I am working on a DOS networking stack to run in DOS under VirtualBox but it's low on my to-do list. On Linux, there is DOSemu. This runs a real copy of DOS in a dedicated VM but also sets up host/guest integration. It works well and I like it. I was at a talk on DOSemu 2 which could be a significant improvement -- but I have not played with it yet, as AFAIK no distribution includes it so far. I note that DOSemu 1 on Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE etc. still includes FreeDOS 0.9-something, pre-1.0 as far as I can recall. That might be something for the FreeDOS team to investigate and rectify. :-) -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
