Well, I installed dosemu on my Linux machine, so I could run older dos games like doom and descent as well as work on dos c sources.
-Chris Intelligencia Computer Consulting An open-source and computer help company http://icctechconsult.com/ On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:14 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:46 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm following this list and find it very interesting. I found it when I > > was trying to prepare myself to help a friend whose business in built > > around a DOS app. It's clear that many/most/all? have access to other > > computers and OSes. This would be obvious if only because one needs > > access to the internet even if only to get this list. This has made me > > curious. > > > > What are others using freedos for: business, curiosity, running retro > > games and apps for fun, to avoid total dependence on the evil empire, or > > something else? > > > > > Hi Dan > > We ran a survey several years ago, and then last year, to answer > exactly that question: How are people using FreeDOS? > > Several years ago (around 2014?) we found people were running FreeDOS > for 3 or 4 main use cases: > > 1. To play classic DOS games > 2. To run legacy DOS applications > 3. To support/develop embedded systems > > and sometimes 4. To install firmware updates on certain motherboards > > I recall that the legacy DOS software was often in a business setting, > such as organizations that needed to retrieve information from an old > DOS application. You discover that some data is locked up in some data > files that are only accessible by the program that wrote the data. So > you find the software (or download it if you don't have it), then > install FreeDOS + the application, and "save as" the data to some > format that you can use. > > We did this when I served as CIO for a university. One of the faculty > found some old floppies with old research data. They wanted to get the > data back (I think to write a paper that referenced the historical > data). We installed FreeDOS on a spare PC that had a floppy drive, > found the original program on a DOS apps archive site, installed that, > and loaded the data. That program could also dump the data into a > plain text file (similar to CSV) which the faculty researcher could > load into a spreadsheet to do further analysis. > > More recently, we found that people were running FreeDOS for (mostly) > 3 main uses: > > 1. To play classic DOS games > 2. To run legacy DOS applications > 3. To develop new DOS programs > > For #3, I think that mostly represented FreeDOS developers responding > to the survey. > > The survey had a few outliers (we still see people who use FreeDOS to > install firmware updates, for example) but in 2022, those were pretty > low compared to the other 3 uses. > > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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