> Microsoft seems to think everyone can buy a new computer frequently, > but the QSP-2 uses an ISA shared memory card that is not compatible > with non ISA systems and Q-Soft 2 seems to require dos based Windows. > > Since Microsoft has graciously decided that $100k+ machines which > depend on Windows 98SE don't matter, the ideal solution substitutes an > open source system. Can Q-Soft 2 run on any Linux system via Wine? > Can Linux still support the ISA bus and run on as little as a 2.4 Ghz > Pentium 4 SBC? Can Freedos replace the MS-DOS 6.22 system in this > machine?
Why are you trying to replace Windows98SE? I usually find it best to keep that, but go to the latest mainboard and CPU that still has the right buses (ISA) in your case. You can probably get this to still run in windows 2000, windows ME, windows XP, or windows Vista (SIC, that is so broken I would not even try it, but it does have a great deal of Win98SE compatibility.) > The major problems you will run into is the proprietary ISA card. > Maybe Virtualbox could help here on a powerful enough SBC with a > PICMG-1.3 backplane that has ISA. You seem to be trying to go to very modern hardware, is there some reason for that? > Even a substitute for Windows 98SE running on top of Freedos for the > gui would be a nice alternative. I know there is FLTK for a gui > environment on Freedos, but how do you implement the WIN32 API or does > wine work with FLTK and Freedos? The Win32API is what Wine Implements. Perhaps you should enumerate the design objectives your are trying to achive and allow the list to make recomendations on how to get to those objectives rather than asking if this or that works. Some of us have a good deal of experience with making ancient stuff usable and continue to work despite lack of manufacturer support. > -- Michael C. Robinson -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
