> But if a game is known to *not* work at all on VirtualBox (for > example) I recommend we discuss removing it.
This brings up a slightly different topic, so maybe deserves its own thread, but I'll bring it up here. I've been working on some updates to the ISLOADED program I sent to Jim a few weeks ago. Lately I have been specifically trying to add the detection of different Virtual Machines (including VirtualBox) to ISLOADED. It turns out that there are a BUNCH of VMs out there that I've gotten to work with DOS: 86Box Bochs DOSBox DOSBox-X DOSEmu / DOSEmu2 Hyper-V JPC KVM Parallels PCem QEMU vDOS VirtualBox VirtualPC (Connectix) VirtualPC (Microsoft) VMWare There are probably others as well, but those are the ones I've managed to successfully build test environments for. They all have their own individual quirks and idiosyncrasies and advantages. A lot of times the open-source ones also "borrow" code from each other (for example, JPC "borrows" part of its BIOS from Bochs). There are also a few other VMs out there that I'm not sure will run DOS (the documentation is unclear and I haven't been able to install or test them for various reasons): Project ACRN BHyve QNX Red Hat Virtualization Rosetta Xen VMM XTA I know the FreeDOS web site also lists several VMs (some of the same ones I've listed above, plus JSLinux which is similar to JPC). At least some of the VMs have a "built-in" DOS, often based on some version of FreeDOS (for example, VPC and DOSEmu). Anyway, I'm wondering how "involved" FreeDOS should be in the VM world (I think in today's world the vast majority of users install DOS under a VM rather than on real hardware, though I personally do both). How involved in testing/recommending applications (including games) for compatibility should FreeDOS actually be, particularly when a VM is involved? Where/how should the results be documented (or if there even should be a central repository)? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
