Greetings to the dosemu team! Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the new version 1.0.0-3 from mandrakesoft. It's the same as ever, still rocks! Since v.0.98, the first version I tried, I've been able to compile and run a program I made to communicate with a pre-paid card device using a proprietary synchronous serial communications protocol thru COM1 or COM2. There is no degradation even though I'm running it under Mandrake 6.1 on a 32 Meg Pentium 60. With Turbo C available for free from Inprise and DRDOS still being supported by Caldera, there's not much one can't compile and/or run that was once compiled/run on M$-DOS, which is already extinct as far as M$ is concerned. The only other way to get MS-DOS is to buy Winblows, which crawls on a Pentium-60. Wine does just fine under the same cicumstances. My favorite 3D game is still a DOS app called LHX: Attack Chopper circa 1990 by Brent Iverson and Electronic Arts, which doesn't complain a bit under dosemu. It and other apps I still have on floppies live on, oblivious to the fact that the OS they used to run on is emulating their access to the hardware. This is truly a great piece of work. There's still hope for the two decades worth of applications written for DOS on the Simtel network. Keep up the good work and more power! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Juan Paolo L. Carballo = PGP 2.6.3ia RSA KeyID: 63F4DC4D = PGP 5.5.3i DSS KeyID: 00914A9F = The importance of information is directly = proportional to its improbability. = Fundamental Theorem of Information Theory =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
