well my plan was to get an xp vm but after trialing the xp mode vm
with vmware I as not impressed.
I have the ram for it but it lagged something terrible and external
device access was just not on, real slow.
There are several ways.
1. play through dosemu with a vinux or other vm yes this lags but
only when loading packages otherwise it seems ok when running.
2. try a full xp on a vm I havn't but am not sure.
3. use a system with xp I still have my old laptop with xp and will use it.
4. get a cheap system l load with a licenced or pirated xp it
doesn't matter will not matter after support drops at any case but
then you need room for the extra unit.
For now, if you don't spaciffically need x64, don't use it.
I and my brother both have x64 based systems but run them with 32 bit
oses because we don't need more than 4gb of ram to do our stuff.
Get a dos machine.
you will need an external synth and a reader and dos.
while you may have to root round to get a full featured dos6 freedos
while a bit less feature filled still is a good dos to use and does
support the fat32 standard meaning you could have a 30gb space of
partitions to run stuff.
I have some old software but not hardware synths anymore.
ofcause you will have to get a serial card or something because
physical serials are getting hard to come buy and it needs to be a
physical port by the way and it needs to be directly accessable by
the app in question to.
I am not sure how fast xp mode would be on a mac but anyway at least
for now we have 32 bit oses and they work.
we have about 8 or so years before win7 7 dies and probably another
10 or so after that before win8 dies.
And as long as people use 32 bit code there will be 32 bit oses
around though you may have to hunt for them.
When it all goes to heck?
Well dosbox won't stay the way it is for ever.
frank of eamon has told me he will eventually get round to developing
dosbox if he ever manages to learn c that is.
We will have time as I say.
At 02:52 AM 6/20/2013, you wrote:
so what do you think is the best way to play these old games? linux
with dosemu or a windows xp vm?
On 6/19/2013 4:04 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Shaun,
I'm afraid not. Dosbox isn't accessible on any platform with any
screen reader unless you install a Dos screen reader and hardware
synth into Dosbox. The only way to run Dos programs on Linux with any
degree of access is Dosemu passing it a couple of switches to run it
as a dum terminal which also disables sounds in the process.
On 6/18/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
is dosbox accessable under linux?
I have vinux here on a vm and have dosemu loaded but I just wandered
if dosbox was accessable at all in linux.
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