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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)

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