From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 20:24:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98A816A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0C943D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from areilly@bigpond.net.au) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (ppp154.dyn230b.pacific.net.au [203.143.230.154]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3p2/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA20113 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:24:45 +1100 Received: (qmail 12563 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Feb 2004 04:24:48 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:24:48 +1100 To: John Hay Message-ID: <20040213042448.GA12554@gurney.reilly.home> References: <20040212191711.GB90721@prometheusresearch.com> <20040212200615.GA216@gvr.gvr.org> <20040212234325.GA53813@prometheusresearch.com> <20040213042014.GA51726@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040213042014.GA51726@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running older DOS console programs with bochs or dosbox X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:24:49 -0000 On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:20:14AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:43:25PM -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote: > > I'm trying to get a DOS emulator to work under FreeBSD, the archive > > was provided as an example of what I'm trying ton run. I was not > > struggling with unziping this archive. Does anyone have any paths > > I should be trying to get an emulator to work? > > Have you tried doscmd that comes with FreeBSD? I normally recompile it > after X is installed because it works a lot better for me in its own > X window using the fonts in /usr/libdata/doscmd/fonts/ > > It works good enough for me to run the old topspeed C v3 compiler > that creates 16 bit 8086 code. Good for embedded 80186 stuff. :-) Another approach that might not work for the OP, but which I use a fair bit is to use wine to run win32 command-line tools. Works very nicely, and a few wrapper scripts mean that you can run assemblers and linkers and the like from within BSD make files. I don't think that wine does pure DOS stuff, though. -- Andrew