Hello. Jochen Reinwand wrote:
I think it would be too miserable since there are so few people working on
> dosemu nowadays :(
Is that really true? Has the interest in a DOS emulation dropped so much?
At least for dosemu it is true. Most developers are gone, as well as the most distributors. My personal opinion is that this is more because dosemu always failed to achieve the necessary level of stability and security in order the users and distributors to trust it any longer after it crossed the 1.0 boundary. Now we are finally approaching that, but I think the loses were fatal. But at least I know two distributors who decided to give it a chance once again, packaging 1.1.4+.
Btw: I came across an interesting project a few days ago. It is called dosbox (http://dosbox.zophar.net/) and it seems to be a DOS emulator for Linux _and_ Windows. It seems like there is done a lot of work for it.
It is intended to run games and only games. This is official. Dosemu is intended to do *much* more, actually the games were never (until recently) the main goal of dosemu, so that projects cannot be compared.
Does anybody know more about it?
Yes. At least people here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=174313 should know much more about it.
Why have they started a new project? DOSemu is much better at the moment. So why spending time for implementing things already done?
There were reasons: 1. Dosemu isn't portable (very bad). 2. Dosemu was *dead* (not any more) 3. Dosemu didn't have a sound support, so it was useless for games (not any longer, the sound support is much better than anywhere else now, except probably the bochs, but the bochs have so many developers...) 4. I don't think DOSbox is intended to compete with dosemu at all. I think most users of DOSbox are the WinNT/2000 users. That people always suffered a horrible DOS support. Now I think WinXP have somewhat better DOS support (including sound, VESA and DPMI, but I may be misleaded as I am not a Windows user). Let's see what DOSbox can offer in exchange. As for linux, dosemu is unbeatable here, that's for sure (IMHO), but with such a few developers this can be eventually changed. - 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
