On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > How can I add the power of FreeDOS to my DOSBox? > > Well, here you go. Keep all of the flexibility that DOSBox provides. Yet, > add the power of the FreeDOS Command Shell and other FreeDOS utilities. The > FreeDOS installer supports DOSBox. Please note, this is not a pure OS > install. But, a special way the installer handles DOSBox. The FreeDOS kernel > is not loaded. This allows the host system to interact with the DOSBox > filesystem and behave more like a normal DOSBox install.
I'll look when I get a moment. I've already done some of that that on DOSBox here. The problem is that DOSBox is intended to allow users to run old DOS games on things that aren't DOS systems. It supports various DOS graphics and sound options, but only enough of a DOS shell to be able to run games from the command line. In particular, only a subset of DOS commands are implemented, and pipes and I/O redirection aren't. DOSBox here is tweaked with the NANSI.COM ANSI driver, FreeDOS COMMAND.COM and the 4DOS.COM COMMAND.COM replacement, and an assortment of other DOS commands and utilities not present in native DOSBox. The FreeDOS and 4DOS shells implement the pipes and I/O redirection DOSBox lacks The one bit that can't be implemented is support for drivers loaded from CONFIG.SYS, because DOSBox doesn't implement it. It loads and uses TSRs just fine. It all works well enough that I have an assortment of old DOS apps running on my ARM CPU based Android tablet, using an Android port of DOSBox. The one I use is Magic DOSBox Free, which gets the nod because it implements support for passing Ctrl-key combos through to the underlying app, and a couple of editors that use the WordStar command set are specific use cases here. I have DOS and 4DOS batch files in the root of the mounted C: drive that set things up as desired to run COMMAND or 4DOS when I run DOSBox. It's nice to see the FreeDOS installer now supporting DOSBox as a platform. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
