Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:55:23 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jeand@Myrias.COM (Jean-Henri Duteau) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS Emulation (*sigh*) Message-ID: <199701100125.LAA29778@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <xktwwtmpztl.fsf@sparcbhl.Myrias.AB.CA> from Jean-Henri Duteau at "Jan 9, 97 09:40:06 am"
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I'll settle these in order 8) Jean-Henri Duteau stands accused of saying: > 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. Perhaps. Depends on your x86 hacking skills - we could certainly use some help 8) > 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. Fair enough. > 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. If the simulator does graphics-mode things, PCEMU isn't going to help. If it's text-only, then please tell me how it crashes so I can see about fixing it. > 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.) If you've read the archives, you'll know that we're hung up on a kernel-internal oddity. I have been trying to raise help regarding this, but it's a very-definitely-non-trivial issue. > Jean-Henri Duteau jeand@myrias.com (work) jeand@west-teq.net (home) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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