Just pick yourself up an old free computer locally. I can confirm that I have been able to get freeDOS up and running PERFECTLY on a Pentium 3. I am about to permanently install it on a either a Pentium D or just a Pentium 4. :)
On Sep 22 2019, at 7:13 am, Random Liegh via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 9/19/2019 9:03 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:41 AM <st...@vwebr.net> wrote: > > > Asking the question a different way. > > > > > > Is there another virtual app (alternatives to Virtualbox or VMWare) that > > > does a much better job supporting DOS hardware which I can install > > > FreeDOS onto? > > > That's probably the ultimate solution for those of us not installing > > > FreeDOS on actual hardware, which is a constantly growing base and if not > > > the majority yet, will be soon. > > > The solutions like DOSBox and 86Box are self-contained virtual > > > hardware/OS solutions but was hoping for an improvement over Virtualbox > > > or VMWare I can install FreeDOS onto. > > > Steve > > Hi Steve > > Yes, installing FreeDOS on a PC emulator or virtual machine is a very > > common way to run FreeDOS. Which PC emulator to run is likely going to > > be down to personal preference and whatever platform you are running. > > We link to several PC emulators / virtual machines from the FreeDOS > > Links page: > > https://www.freedos.org/links/ > > > > > > VirtualBox > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > > > QEMU > > http://www.qemu-project.org/ > > > > GNOME Boxes (only for Linux with GNOME desktop; uses QEMU as a back-end) > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes > > > > PCem > > http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ > > > > 86Box > > https://github.com/86Box/86Box > > > > DOSEMU2 (only for Linux) > > https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2 > > > > > > Or if you want to run FreeDOS in a web browser: jslinux (javascript) > > https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/freedos.cfg&mem=64&graphic=1&w=720&h=400 > > > > > > If you're asking for my personal preference: I used to run VirtualBox > > until a few years ago, then I switched to QEMU. I run Fedora Linux > > with the GNOME desktop, and QEMU works very well there. But QEMU has a > > lot of command line options - you "build" your virtual machine by > > assembling different options for the network card, C: drive, CDROM, > > etc. So the command line can get long. I wrote an article about it > > here: > > https://opensource.com/article/17/10/run-dos-applications-linux > > > > > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > For folks who don't mind living on the bleeding edge, 86Box provides > test builds at http://ci.86box.net/job/86Box-Optimized ...those are > builds optimized for most modern cpus, grouped by generation (core2, > nehalem, sandybridge, etc). > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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