My Laptop

[MarathoN]

When I loaded the CD it didn't give me an option to run from CD.

[Pathos]

I got damn small linux working (without cd). I'm considering wiping MS altogether...

[themacuser]

Try Flying Chair

[Dark_Me]

Have you even finished that yet? If so I want one. I need a glorified web browser.

[Pathos]

Try Flying Chair

What are the minimum specs for that?

[noob]

350MHZ Balmer, 128 meg ddr chair, 4 gig of long room and a 24x google.

[Pathos]

hehe, need a state of the art cooling system to keep it from boiling over

[WMD]

350MHZ Balmer, 128 meg ddr chair, 4 gig of long room and a 24x google.

haha!

[WMD]

The reason why it's so slow is because it retardidly emulates 86x hardware which is fair enough if you're running it on a Mac but is pointless on an 86x when all you need is a virtual machine like Vmware or MS virtual machine.

Forgot to mention this...the only problem with using VMware in place of DOSBox is that it emulates hardware from after the real DOS era, so DOS drivers for its sound/video card are hard/impossible to come by.  DOSBox just emulates a typical VGA card with limited VESA and a SoundBlaster 16.

[Aloone_Jonez]

DOSEMU isn't VMware, I was just comparing it to VMWare. DOSEMU is a custom made virtual machine specifically designed to run FreeDOS, it emulates the sound blaster and graphics (I think the latter is only emulated when running in a Window) without having to do the hard and pointless processor emulation.

[Orethrius]

*pssst... jones... DOSBox, not DOSEMU.*

[WMD]

We are talking about a 100MHz laptop here, though.

[Aloone_Jonez]

*pssst... jones... DOSBox, not DOSEMU.*

Yes, that's already been suggested but we decided it was to slow because it emulates the processor which is isn't needed unless it's being used on a Mac.

[Pathos]

yeah i can play dos games just fine