On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Matthew Haas wrote: > Yes, I know DOSEMU is largely x86 dependant. Nonetheless, I am wondering > if anyone has ever gotten it to run on non-x86 machines. I seem to > remember reading a while back talk of people running it on an Alpha...
I once tried to compile it ;) apparently there is a soft-cpu emulation, which can be turned on with a configure option... > Anywho... I am currently playing with 0.64.4, mainly because it's the > oldest copy I could find (less x86 specific features). My problem is that > it is requiring as86 and ld86 ... is there a package available with these > (I saw an m68k binutils... would it be in the multiarch?)... I just want > to see how far I can get with it... be nice to play some of my old DOS > games again on my LX without giving up too much speed. binutils is quite different from *86. I compiled as86 and ld86 on sparc... and later when I tried to compile dosemu with it, it crashed quite... terribly :) I don't remember precisely what it wanted to do, but it involved writing gigabytes of data to the filesystem with one write() syscall :) Everything else stopped while that 1.5G of free space was filled :) I haven't tried anything since... -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/