Microsoft seems to think everyone can buy a new computer frequently,
but the QSP-2 uses an ISA shared memory card that is not compatible
with non ISA systems and Q-Soft 2 seems to require dos based Windows.
Since Microsoft has graciously decided that $100k+ machines which
depend on Windows 98SE don't matter, the ideal solution substitutes an
open source system. Can Q-Soft 2 run on any Linux system via Wine?
Can Linux still support the ISA bus and run on as little as a 2.4 Ghz
Pentium 4 SBC? Can Freedos replace the MS-DOS 6.22 system in this
machine?
The major problems you will run into is the proprietary ISA card.
Maybe Virtualbox could help here on a powerful enough SBC with a
PICMG-1.3 backplane that has ISA.
Even a substitute for Windows 98SE running on top of Freedos for the
gui would be a nice alternative. I know there is FLTK for a gui
environment on Freedos, but how do you implement the WIN32 API or does
wine work with FLTK and Freedos?
-- Michael C. Robinson
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