Hello. Today the problem is that not everyone have old hardware, so they use what they have, new hardware or virtual machines. I stil have my first pc IBM 286 with msdos 4.0, but i think i installed 5 or 6, can't remember. I installed freedos on a asus eeepc, runs well, but with no sound. Eventually, i will do something that i don't want, replace freedos with linux to play dos games with dosbox (stag or X) so i can have sound. The downside of dosbox is that i can't use gametools because i don't have int13 to do breakpoints.
I like DOS and it's sad that Microsoft and IBM sent him to trash. Best boot times... Thank you On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 4:56 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 4:38 AM ZB <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:13:45AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote: >> >> > Hi! There is a thread about freedos game compatibility on BTTR, >> > started by liljames2k: >> > >> > https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=18483 >> > [..] > >> 1. Any attempt to run any old game -- if you mean "testing FreeDOS >> compatibility" -- should be done on "legacy hardware". For simplicity >> let's say "the motherboard should feature at least one ISA slot". If you >> mean testing sound: it should be done using ISA soundcard, inserted >> exactly >> in that (single?) ISA slot. >> >> If anyone is using newer hardware -- e.g. PCI-only -- you'll never 100% >> know "is it FreeDOS or hardware-related issue". >> > > > I think that's a very narrow view. The reality is that a lot of the > "classic" (say, '486 or earlier) hardware is hard to find - at least in > working condition. And dedicating an entire machine to FreeDOS . So most > people run FreeDOS on modern hardware (if they dedicate hardware to it at > all) or in a virtual machine (more common). > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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