Bart Oldeman wrote:
I just keep wondering about the FM devices. The DOSBOX people seem to have been able to get that working, so what is special about DOSBOX that is so difficult in DOSEMU?
AFAIK dosbox people are using an SDL lib for output, while we are using an OSS directly and are going to write more plugins. I wish dosemu to use SDL, pthreads and all the other tasty things, but it just doesn't. So for us it will require significantly more work than for them to add an Adlib.
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?DOSbox http://www.happypenguin.org/show?DOSbox&start=10
Wery interesting indeed! Well, after all I can understand their reasons: they are comparing 1.0.2 most likely, as a last "very stable" version and this is understandable after all. Also some people claim dosemu crashes their system even without being root. It is no longer possible since linux-2.4.20, but they haven't specified the kernel they used, so they blame dosemu instead. Configuring dosemu is now trivial, but again, they were comparing against 1.0... So probably that was not a FUD, but rather a consequence of the fact that dosemu had recently celebrated its first decade of existance, but there is still no a version that is both really and officially stable. But that can be changed eventually.
> but the complete removal of coopthreads willjust to clarify, it's still there but it's dead code as long as you don't use comcom. Before it was always initialized.
> require also removing comcom.com, so the
> coopthreads is still there.
Unfortunately that makes no difference at all: the coopthreads/qemu problem was triggering only when comcom or "unix -e" was used. Now "unix -e" is safe, but comcom, still being a default, keeps the problem exactly where it was. Initialisation of coopthreads didnt raised the problem and even using a builtins was possible. But I accept the fact that freecom needs some work before it can be used.
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