How do I get off the list if the methods I have read about do not work?
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, James Moody wrote:
> > To whom it may concern,
> > Is there an easy way of running Win 3.1 under DOSemu?
> > Has anybody tried incorporating DOS at the Linux kernel level? i.e.:
> > Natively run DOS programs and Win 3.1 under Linux.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > James Falknor
>
> 1) Windows 3.1 is rumoured to run in real mode under dosemu. I've never
> tried it.
>
> 2) Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode (or any other program which requires ring 0
> access) will not run in dosemu without cpu emulation. (I'm not sure of the
> status of the cpu emulation in dosemu, although there is some there).
>
> 3) Using the winos2 package (for running win31 under os/2) you can run
> windows 3.1 quite well under dosemu. You require a license for both os/2 and
> windows to do this legally, and I don't remember where to find the winos2
> package. I do this successfully, and there is an faq somewhere to help you
> set this up. I've run it both in an xdos window and in full-screen svgalib
> dosemu, and I've run most of the applets that come with win31, as well as
> word6 and a couple of other programs.
>
> 4) The wine project has started incorporating dos emulation, as many windows
> installation programs require using pkunzip or some similar dos programs.
> This means that wine will run not only windows 31/95/98/nt programs but also
> has preliminary support for running line-based dos apps.
>
> I suggest that you try running your windows programs under the latest
> release of wine (ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development)
> and post any results (success or not) to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> james
>
