I'm tempted to move to 64-bit, but I'd cut myself out of
DOS even more if it breaks dosemu.
why not virtualbox? i'm quite sure even the opensource edition can
run dos quite fine.
I use VMWare Fusion 3 (it seems to work better on OS X yet),
and while FreeDOS runs under it, I gave up maintaining a pure
MS-DOS environment simply because I couldn't afford spending
lots of hours digging in config.sys/autoexec.bat to configure
networking, and other nowadays obvious things.
dosemu provides a well-working environment out of the box,
and it fits my (BTW Harbour-only) purpose perfectly. For
real mode DOS apps, even dosbox works on OS X natively.
Of course I could keep separate Linux 32 VMs for dosemu alone,
or even 32-bit Windows, but all these are too "expensive".
i think i even have one setup up complete with networking n stuff, if
you want (and i find it), i could send you that (it's basically a
freedos + mslanman + i-forgot-what-tcpip, runs some custom app my mom
has had for decades, which i'll rip out of course :).
:) Well, thanks a lot for the kind offer, but please don't
bother, I'd probably keep it for emergency only (IOW it'd
just be another exotic VM/OS in my collection ;)
(rip out the app, not my mom.)
:)
Springs to mind that I have Win95 VM, which also has DOS, so
for testing it could be the "ultimate" solution.
Brgds,
Viktor
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