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From: Andrew Stephenson on 1 Jul 2005 16:15 In article <1120240530.132226.85910(a)g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> latepaul(a)gmail.com "Paul Mason" writes: > Andrew Stephenson wrote: > > Has anyone here tried DosBox? It is reputed to be a DOS emulator > > available for a number of OSes, including OS-X: > > > > [...] > > I haven't used DosBox but if you've got original Dos install > discs then you could try qemu [...] Thanks for all the pointers. Some sound like good material for a wet winter's night, once the current urgency has subsided. <g> I quite liked the look of Petit DosBox; and the way DosBox has been ported to so many host OSes is encouraging. For "qemu", I suppose Novell DOS 7, which I have in reserve as my "PC-total-panic-after-the-iceberg-hits" OS, should serve. It was (is) a v.good free (as in beer _and_ speech) "real" DOS version. -- Andrew Stephenson
From: James Dore on 2 Jul 2005 12:57 In article <1120236788snz(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk>, ames(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk says... > Has anyone here tried DosBox? It is reputed to be a DOS emulator > available for a number of OSes, including OS-X: > > http://dosbox/sourceforge.net > > but see especially "Petit DosBox", which apparently includes a DB > binary and wraps the whole deal nicely for Macs. > > It is touted as providing an environment for DOS games. I'd like > to use it to run DOS apps, like WordStar and text-mangling tools > collected/written over the years. How well it fakes DOS's sundry > oddities is liable to matter. OTOH, games often stressed DOS, so > maybe that's covered. bbbbut they can't. I've just thrown away my Frontier disks, after coming to terms with the fact that I'll never, ever be able to play it again. And now, you say, there's a Dos environment for a Mac? In which I might have been able to get my beloved Frontier running again? Excuse me. There's something in my eye... -- James Dore, IT Officer, New College james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new
From: Ian McCall on 2 Jul 2005 17:00 On 2005-07-02 17:57:01 +0100, James Dore <james.dore(a)new.oxford.ac.uk> said: > bbbbut they can't. > I've just thrown away my Frontier disks, after coming to terms with the > fact that I'll never, ever be able to play it again. > And now, you say, there's a Dos environment for a Mac? In which I might > have been able to get my beloved Frontier running again? > Excuse me. There's something in my eye... > > http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/ Cheers, Ian
From: Andy Fraser on 2 Jul 2005 19:02 James Dore <james.dore(a)new.oxford.ac.uk> wrote: > bbbbut they can't. > > I've just thrown away my Frontier disks, after coming to terms with the > fact that I'll never, ever be able to play it again. > > And now, you say, there's a Dos environment for a Mac? In which I might > have been able to get my beloved Frontier running again? > > Excuse me. There's something in my eye... Frontier as in Elite 2? Maybe Oolite will fill the void. It's here <http://oolite.aegidian.org/> It's not Frontier but it has many new features that the original Elite didn't have including some that IIRC were in Frontier and many new ships via the addin system. IMHO the flight model in Frontier let it down very badly so for me Oolite is actually better. -- Andy.
From: James Dore on 4 Jul 2005 05:37
In article <3iodk3FmgqfhU1(a)individual.net>, ian(a)eruvia.org says... > On 2005-07-02 17:57:01 +0100, James Dore <james.dore(a)new.oxford.ac.uk> said: > > > bbbbut they can't. > > I've just thrown away my Frontier disks, after coming to terms with the > > fact that I'll never, ever be able to play it again. > > And now, you say, there's a Dos environment for a Mac? In which I might > > have been able to get my beloved Frontier running again? > > Excuse me. There's something in my eye... > > > > http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/ Bless you! Cheers, -- James Dore, IT Officer, New College james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new |