From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jan 9 08:46:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA09043 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:46:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from intgate.myrias.ab.ca (root@intgate.Myrias.AB.CA [198.161.248.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA09037 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:46:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by intgate.myrias.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25069 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:45:59 -0700 Received: from slave.myrias.ab.ca(198.161.246.21) by intgate.myrias.ab.ca via smap (V2.0beta) id xma025063; Thu, 9 Jan 97 09:45:42 -0700 Received: from sparcbhl.myrias ([198.161.246.12]) by slave.Myrias.AB.CA with SMTP id <1032>; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:45:38 -0700 Received: by sparcbhl.myrias (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA12908; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:40:08 -0700 To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: DOS Emulation (*sigh*) From: Jean-Henri Duteau Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:40:06 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.33 Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I've fully converted over to the FreeBSD world and I've read the archives of the mailing lists and it appears I'm going to have to get my hands dirty. I used to be a Linux user and DOSEMU worked wonders for me. My DOS emulation needs aren't very much. I have one program -- a hockey simulator from APBA -- that I need to run and don't like running over to my wife's system or rebooting my own computer just to run one program. I knew that DOSEMU was mainly a Linux thing, but thought that someone must have ported it to FreeBSD and I also knew about PCEMU for FreeBSD so I wasn't too worried about DOS emulation being a factor in my choice to go to FreeBSD. But I have since found out otherwise. 8-( PCEMU crashes when I try to run the simulator and its utility programs and, unless someone knows better than I, DOSEMU is really only a Linux thing. But I've heard about this RUNDOS or DOSCMD or whatever and heard about its progress on the emulation list archive. I've read the BSDI man page on it and it might do what I want (although it would be nice to bring it up in an X window, but we can always add that). So I'm officially volunteering to help bring this to a usable state. Whoever's in charge, please contact me. I'm willing to do "stuff" for you. (I believe that this would be Sean or Michael?? I couldn't really decipher that from the archives.) Thanks and I hope to hear from you soon. -- Jean-Henri Duteau jeand@myrias.com (work) jeand@west-teq.net (home) My employer: Myrias Computer Technologies (www.myrias.com) Currently working on RHSS - a realistic hockey simulator system covered by GPL. Fantasy Sports Guru -- Commissioner--RHL,RHHL,LFHL,CFFL.Owner--FHL,FFL,RCFFL I run FreeBSD2.1.5 at home and am striving for a totally Free Operating System.