Re: [Freedos-user] Emulating obsolete HW in FreeDOS

2008-08-08 Thread Alain M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: What you want is to use the old board? Then you should try Dosemu, just as Erik said... Dosemu is a very fas Linux aplication and you will have real access to your hardware. It even has a resource locking interface with the main OS. Now, if you want to develop some

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulating obsolete HW in FreeDOS

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > The application is a very old network manager. > The obsolete communications device is a serial board. > It is not, however, a typical serial board.? The serial board performs > certain functions of a proprietary protocol which is somewhat similar to > frame relay.? The interface to this b

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulating obsolete HW in FreeDOS

2008-08-08 Thread cordata02
how quickly I got a Linux environment running on my PC.. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:36 am Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Emulating obsolete HW in FreeDOS Hi Dave,

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulating obsolete HW in FreeDOS

2008-08-08 Thread Alain M.
You question is clear... but incomplete... What hardware are you talking about. There are *many* possibilities, but but different solutions for different hw and/or problems. To name a few: VMware/Qemu/VirtualBox/DosBox/Boshs/Dosemu/etc... each acn do some nice little tricks :) Alain [EMAIL PR

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulating obsolete HW in FreeDOS

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Dave, Please explain that "obsolete peripheral communications device". > 1)? Re write the application to use WATTCP or something similar. If it is open source, you can do that. > 2) Leave the application alone and modify the emulator > (like VMWare Player) to provide a bridge between the fi