-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with >>>>>> the nVidia driver in icewm. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windows 3.11 set of 6 >>>>>> floppies. I also have the Harpoon for windows CD. >>>>>> >>>>>> The question is what app to run to make it work. The choices seem to be >>>>>> >>>>>> dosbox >>>>>> >>>>>> qemu >>>>>> >>>>>> bochs >>>>>> >>>>> wine started its life as a windows 3.11 emulator (or non-emulatr, >>>>> whatever). >>>>> >>>> Not in amd64. >>>> >>> At this point, I still think it's too early to run a 64-bit environment >>> unless you actually have programs that require 64-bit support. Too much >>> stuff still only supports a 32-bit environment. You're shooting >>> yourself in the foot if you're running 64-bit on a desktop with no >>> explicit need. >>> >> I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit >> userlands are fine. The exception is if you have to use binary blobs, >> and even then kludgy wrappers do exist. >> >> I run a 64 bit userland on a PPC machine (this _IS_ a bad idea, but I >> need the speed..) > > Have you run qemu on that PPC to run x86 dos? I remember drooling over > an RS/6000 7025-H50 but I couldn't get Sarge to boot on it. That was > before I knew what I know now and perhaps it could have worked. It > probably would have been too high a MHz too, but that's another issue on > the back burner for now. I just want to relax with some games. > >> @Doug, >> I do love old machines, let us know how you go. I have some disks that >> you're welcome to, perhaps we can work something out with shipping? If >> you have some old kit lying around, perhaps we could trade? > > I don't have any old kit that I'm not either using or plan to use > (remember my low-MHz thread?). Now that I've moved, I want to get my > Tyan dual-P-133 box set up (that was generously donated by a fellow DU > lurker); all it needs is a new RTC and at least that is in a socket and > still available. > > The only thing I've had fail on good old computers are the hard drives > and CPU fans (on my P-II, need to fix that). There are good threads on > using CF cards on the OpenBSD-misc list since many of those types use > OBSD on CF cards on small boxes to make net appliances. CF cards look > just like an IDE disk to the IDE controller and BIOS; just have to watch > that you don't hit swap too often... > > I need to get more memory for both boxes but its not too expensive and > is still available from a couple of on-line Canadian sites. > > Doug. > > I do remember that slow box thread, sadly my laptop had beer spilt upon it and mangled it pretty good.
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