Yes, that could be part of the problem. I haven't used NixOS (I use Fedora) but I see on the NixOS home page they write: "Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration."
The "unique approach" usually means "incompatible" depending on what they've changed. Not surprised you mentioned it can require "specific patches" to build programs for NixOS. You could try Fedora or Ubuntu. Those are very common/popular distributions, and VirtualBox has binary packages specifically for those. Jim On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 5:56 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > ---- Le ven., 11 juin 2021 14:14:58 -0400 Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > écrit ---- > [citating only "pertinent" info] > > > So apparently VirtualBox 6.1.22 has a surprising amount > of problems with DOS games and I wonder why that is the > case. I guess all games work equally well or unwell for > all boot options, not just for your choice "3"? > > --- > It might be specific to VirtuaBox for NixOS, in the sense that NixOS often > have to apply specific patches to allows to build programs where all files > relative to a program are inside one directory, which is not at all usual for > Linux. > > I might try a more classic Linux. > > Did not really try other options than 3, was late in night. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
