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From: Andrew Stephenson on 1 Jul 2005 12:53 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. -- Andrew Stephenson
From: Andrew Stephenson on 1 Jul 2005 13:28 In article <1120236788snz(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk> ames(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk "Andrew Stephenson" writes: > 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 *ahem* http://dosbox.sourceforge.net -- Andrew Stephenson
From: Paul Mason on 1 Jul 2005 13:55 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: > > 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. I haven't used DosBox but if you've got original Dos install discs then you could try qemu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) with qemux (http://cordney.com/QemuX/) I've installed Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on Qemu - though 2000 was too slow to be useable really. I suspect it'd cope well with DOS though. I might try it tonight. Of course you'd need to convert your discs into disc images - which probably means having a PC. If you can't do that, or you haven't got DOS disks anyway you could always try FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) - but rather than install it yourself - grab a pre-installed image from .... [at this point I was going to direct you to 'FreeOSZoo' who have a number of pre-installed images of free OSes that can be run on Qemu - but their page is gone - looks like they let their domain name expire - however I found a mirror] http://ftp.crans.org/pub/freeoszoo/images/ Anyway - lots to try there. ;)
From: Andy Fraser on 1 Jul 2005 13:50 Andrew Stephenson <ames(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Has anyone here tried DosBox? It is reputed to be a DOS emulator > available for a number of OSes, including OS-X: Yep. It works quite well. I was playing Cannon Fodder, and a couple of others, in it last week. I couldn't get C&C to work though which is a shame. It works in the Linux version. -- Andy.
From: Andrew Stephenson on 1 Jul 2005 16:24
In article <1gz1awm.ok84bi1b50ef4N%andyfraser31(a)hotmail.com> andyfraser31(a)hotmail.com "Andy Fraser" writes: > Andrew Stephenson <ames(a)deltrak.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Has anyone here tried DosBox? It is reputed to be a DOS emulator > > available for a number of OSes, including OS-X: > > Yep. It works quite well. I was playing Cannon Fodder, and a > couple of others, in it last week. I couldn't get C&C to work > though which is a shame. It works in the Linux version. Thanks. That's good. I have obtained the Petit DosBox and am considering putting it on my 15"PB but wanted to know it's not going to scrunge my whole setup with a megalomaniacal rampage. -- Andrew Stephenson |