Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM

Microsoft now gives the VirtualPC away for free use - you may give it a try. But to be honest, the best emulator for DOS is still the latest software version of the VirtualPC BEFORE Microsoft bought the company and changed the development. We used that old version on several machines to get a sp

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

Marcel E. Tschudin wrote: > [... Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMWare ...] > Here now my questions: > > 1) Which of the two VMs would be preferable for this application. > > 2) Once the VM would be installed, what do I have to do to get FreeDOS > installed on it? > Hi. I haven't run Micro

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:01, you wrote: > I ended up now exactly where I expected to encounter the problem: > > 1) Downloaded VMware Workstation (one of all the propositions) > > 2) Downloaded fdbasecd.iso > > 3) Started to create a new VM (thought 1GB should be enough for a DOS > application

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS PR question - what LOOKS fancy in DOS?

John Hupp wrote: > My interest to date in FreeDOS has been as part of a software bundle that I > can put on older computers without Windows licenses (and sell them off on > eBay). > > eBay still has the last auction I did on its servers at > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

Eric schreef: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:01, you wrote: > >> I ended up now exactly where I expected to encounter the problem: >> >> 1) Downloaded VMware Workstation (one of all the propositions) >> >> 2) Downloaded fdbasecd.iso >> >> 3) Started to create a new VM (thought 1GB should be en

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

If you can get hold of it, you might be better off using an older version of Virtual Server 2005, ie Microsoft's Virtual PC 2003. I don't think you'll have the same issues with that and Windows XP Home. Hope this helps a little. Regards Chris. >From: tomleem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

> That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to use > Freedos in some actual business applications? I think FreeDOS is used in a surprising amount of business applications, but people don't advertise it very much because DOS isn't 'cool'. We currently use FreeDOS as a RTOS (real time interrup

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

That's good to hear. It's in small computer instrumentation that I was considering Freedos. What revision are you using? --- Andrew Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to > use > > Freedos in some actual business applications? > > I think Fre

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

> That's good to hear. It's in small computer > instrumentation that I was considering Freedos. > > What revision are you using? We were using 0.9 beta something or other, but it was an ancient version and we had conflicts between himem and cutemouse. We just switched to the 1.0 release, reteste