i had a number of cga/vga games working in dosemu at one time. battle chess, commanderkeen, mario,,,. i have not been able to get tem running even with the same dosemu.conf files. maybe this is why. when did this start?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Awhile back I tried getting graphics to work in dosemu on some linux > distros I was playing with at the time. Sadly, I was totally unsuccessful. > I realized after reading the docs that one had to disable video/bios > shadowing in order to use graphics. The problem is, my computer (HP8570C) > *does not* have any setting in the bios that lets you do this. So I guess > that means I can't run dosemu in a graphical mode on my computer at all eh? > What I don't quite understand is WHY do you have to disable video/bios > shadowing to get graphics working in the first place?! I tried searching > the web/usenet for information but apparently no one ever decided to write > a technical document to explain why video/bios shadowing in dosemu must be > disabled. I still think that perhaps this is some kind of quick hack that > was put into dosemu to get graphics to work. Did it have to be programmed > this way or was there another way graphic support in dosemu could've been > implemented without having to require video/bios shadowing to be disabled? > It would be great if there's another solution to get graphics working in > dosemu without having to disable video/bios shadowing. To tell you the > truth, i've been a windows user for quite awhile now (started with win3.1 > and i'm now using win98se) although i've used linux/bsd/solaris/etc... > through shell accounts i've acquired over the years and from playing around > with linux distros that are configured to run on top of a dos partition. > Ultimately, I hope to make a complete transition to linux from wind0ze (I > already purchased suse linux to try out). I'm guessing i'm going to have to > go the dual boot route and keep a seperate windows partition behind to run > my dos/windows games since i've come to realize that both dosemu/wine are > still premature. If it wasn't for some of the technical problems with both > emulators (probably due to microsoft's monopoly on *stuff*), I would > quickly switch from windows to linux in a heart beat and say ados micros~1 > heh :P > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ===== phrostie Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
