Hello.
Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
The docs on setting it up would be pretty similar right?
I think so.
Does the setup program for MS Windows also work now in Dosemu?
To my great surprise no it doesn't, it still has the same problem as WinOS2 had...
What versions are currently tested?
(Both 3.1, 3.11 and Workgroups, non-Workgroups?)
3.11 and "Windows for Workgroups" is the same thing AFAIK. Both 3.1 and 3.11 are known to work.
Are you sure there aren't any extra advantages with this?
I don't know. People seem to not like WinOS2, but as for me there are no advantages in avoiding it at all. It may even be a little faster as it doesn't need the virtualization of LDT.
I cannot run MS-DOS programs from within WinOS/2 for example. I always thought this was a WinOS/2 limitation.
It appears not. This is the limitation of both FreeDOS and dosemu. FreeDOS can be improved, but dosemu will have to provide the whole lot of VxD code to allow the concurrent DOS sessions. Such a code is not in Wine, neither it is documented. So unless someone is to invest some *real* work into it (like Win4Lin guys did), I'd say there are no hopes. But hey, that's silly:) You can just start multiple xdosemu sessions and get much more reliable environment that the one of Win3.1.
Also I tried to install a game in MS Windows at some point (Phantasmagoria) and it didn't work. I also couldn't play the videos that came with it.
There are many things to improve in windows support. You may start filling up the bug reports on it, but right now there are still many known problems to work out, so the bugs will have to wait (on BTS).
move towards win95 support, but nothing more.That would be really great of course :) Dosemu would be pretty similar to Win4Lin then I think.
Win4Lin did a great work. Dosemu is unlikely to catch up. But running win95 with the very limited capabilities would also be nice. Btw, it may be possible already I think. AFAIK some very early Chicago betas were able to boot in 3.1 mode (by executing win31.exe IIRC). Later the kernel was reworked and the 3.1 mode was abandonned. I think this may even run under dosemu. But getting such a Windows looks problematic these days.
Hmm, was it also possible with WinOS/2 to play videos?
Depends on dosemu version I think. Since 1.2.2 it might be possible.
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