From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jan 9 17:26:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA04987 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 17:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA04982 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 17:26:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA29778; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:55:24 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701100125.LAA29778@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DOS Emulation (*sigh*) In-Reply-To: from Jean-Henri Duteau at "Jan 9, 97 09:40:06 am" To: jeand@Myrias.COM (Jean-Henri Duteau) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:55:23 +1030 (CST) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[