Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:17:11 -0500 From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: running older DOS console programs with bochs or dosbox Message-ID: <20040212191711.GB90721@prometheusresearch.com>
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Hello. I'm trying to get a DOS program in the self-extracting archive http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ayoung/GAS20/gas20dos.exe to run on FreeBSD. I tried to use bochs and dosbox. Bochs x86 Emulator 2.1 compiles wonderfuly in both 4.8 and 5.2, but when I run it and choose option #5, I get the following message: [MEM0 ] ROM: couldn't open ROM image file 'file=/usr/local/share/bochs/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest'. The file does exist, I have the correct permissions, and I've even tried other VGABIOS files and I get a similar result. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? DosBox v0.60 from the ports collection compiles well, the graphical display comes up and I am able to mount the appropriate directory, but when I execute "GAS.EXE" I get: "CPU:GRP5:Illegal Call 7" Are there any other emulators that can execute older console-only DOS programs like this one? Cheers, Clark
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