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skyman8081:
--- Quote from: Calum ---interesting. i hope one day a totally open source dos will come out that can detect cdroms and so on, use a lot of RAM, and also get mswindows installed on top of it.
dr-dos is cool, because it'snot microsoft, but it's still not open source.
and i think i would use dosemu (which is freedos in a vm under linux i think)
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like this?
FreeDOS is getting close. ReactOS is also getting good.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---How 'bout DOSBox?
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DOSBox is an emulator and it sucks. It's slow and it's a waste of CPU power to emulate an x86 on an x86, unless you have an old game that won't run on a multi gigahertz machine or you want to run it on a Mac or something non-x86.
DOSEmu isn't an emulator it's a virtual machine running FREEDos. This is better but it dosn't run under Windows so I'd have to boot into Linux which in this case I don't bother I just boot into FreeDOS. And FreeDOS with an extender can handle up to 4GB of RAM which is way more than I have.
Calum:
skyman: yes, like that. i never got windows running with any dos other than dr-dos or ms-dos though. ibm pc dos would work too, but it's just a fork of ms-dos.
jones: i don't need to boot into linux to use dosemu, since if the computer is on, linux is already running, there's an easy solution for you! however i agree, a real operating system is often better than an emulator (but not always depending on the design of the original operating system in question)
Kintaro:
I have a copy of OS/2 2.0, its so rad compared to fucking Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS.
mobrien_12:
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DOSEmu isn't an emulator it's a virtual machine running FREEDos. This is better but it dosn't run under Windows so I'd have to boot into Linux which in this case I don't bother I just boot into FreeDOS. And FreeDOS with an extender can handle up to 4GB of RAM which is way more than I have.
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DOSemu can run any DOS, including DR-DOS and MS-DOS, and it can even run Win OS/2 (the special version of Windows 3.1 included in OS/2).
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