On 9/16/19 4:41 AM, Michael C Robinson wrote: > 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? > > 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. > > 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? > > -- Michael C. Robinson
I have no idea if this will work, but it might be worth a gander. There may also be folks in their forums with similar issues. https://www.reactos.org/ "ReactOS is a free and open source operating system written from scratch. It's design is based on Windows in the same way Linux is based on Unix, however ReactOS is _not_ linux. ReactOS looks and feels like Windows, is able to your run Windows software and your Windows drivers, and is familiar for Windows users."
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