On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > There are rough directions on using the installer with DOSBox > in the FDI Readme. > > https://github.com/shidel/FDI/blob/master/README.md
As it happens, I'm doing something similar. I have an Android port of DOSBox, and an assortment of old DOS apps (not games) up and running on a 7" Android tablet. The version of DOSBox I'm using passes Ctrl-char combinations through to the running app, which made it possible to get things like Eric Meyer's VDE editor (a WordStar clone) up and running. DOSBox implements enough of the DOS kernel, but the shell is only sufficient to let you run a DOS game from the command line. Things like pipes are unsupported. Fortunately, you aren't stuck with the minimal COMMAND.COM version DOSBox provides. Both FreeDOS COMMAND and 4DOS run fine and provide the missing shell functionality. FreeDOS MODE does things like enabling 43 line EGA and 50 line VGA mode. I've simply copied the appropriate FreeDOS commands over to the DOS directories on the microSD card where that stuff lives on the tablet. The main missing piece is no equivalent of CONFIG.SYS, so drivers loaded from it aren't possible. I've found TSRs that do most of what I need, like DPMI support and an ANSI driver. I *haven't* found a TSR that implements the functionality of HIMEM.SYS, so no HMA, but EMS and XMS memory are supported. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
