Hi Shaun, Well, as to your point about Dos not being dead I agree. Dos is definitely not dead. Over the years I have encountered my share of Dos enthusiasts who still use Dos on a regular basis, and have switched to free Dos solutions like Freedos which is supposedly being updated and maintained. Plus there are Dos emulators like Dosbox that are perfectly fine for someone with functional eyeballs.
I myself still run a bunch of Dos stuff in Dosemu on Linux. Dosemu is in my opinion the most accessible Dos emulator out there and I can play games and even run old office suites like WordPerfect in Dosemu. I wonder if there is a way to port Dosemu to Windows in order to get the same level of access to Dos apps in Windows as Linux. Sigwin is a Linux environment compiled to run on Windows. Actually, it is pretty nice for running and compiling Linux apps for Windows without having to have a Linux OS installed. It may be possible to port Dosemu or something like it to Sigwin and then running Dosemu on Windows via Sigwin. That's probably the most accessible way we are going to get in running Dos apps in a 64-bit Windows environment. On 8/17/14, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes thanks tom, this started on the nvda list where someone wanted to > use q basic to program in of all things aparently dos aint all dead right > now. > To be honest though my view is if you don't have a hardware synth and > the right software and depending on what you want its near impossible > to get its not worth it. > True a couple free readers are around but still. > Another thing is work vertual machines run slow on windows unless you > have hardwre vertualisation and since I wager most of us won't have > it unless we all got macs then good luck to running it. > Believe me I tried a win xp and a linux vm on here. > Easier to get a 32 bit system or run dos somehow but if you don't > have the stuff well. > I have always wanted either a dosbox emulator or at least something > like the dos4 gw program that could run 16 bit programs in 32 bit mode. > If we could have a 16 to 32 bit bridge it would not be so bad but we > don't even have one of those. > heck all dosbox would need is an accessable frontend to run games as > long as it all looped back to itself, there is one for freepascal the > programming commandiline language I mucked with at school so in > theory there should be one though being a true dos buff I'd take true > dos any day but with the fact I have no hardware synth and will have > to need windows screenreaders a frontend would be easier. > Someone also suggested sygwin which I have not bothered with really > and something called ms sys but I donn't know what this package is. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
