Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread François Revol
Hi, > I know thar Qemu used to work grat, and it is actively developed. It > will give you a nice emulated machine with a NIC emulation. > VirtualBox > should work too, and should be much more easy. Both have nice vesa > graphics. > > Neither will give you shared folders, you will have to use

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Jim Michaels
can you point me to an emulator that has windows binaries that can be used by a business person for more than personal use virtualbox isn't going to do it, especially since the GPL better-licensed Open Source Edition isn't made to compile under windows. oracle - sigh. yes, I am trying to use le

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 13-5-2010 19:25, Jim Michaels schreef: can you point me to an emulator that has windows binaries that can be used by a business person for more than personal use Let's see ( I don't know the licenses of all): * VMware (Workstation, Server, Player, etc) * Bochs * QEMu * VirtualBox * VirtualPC

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Jim Michaels wrote: > can you point me to an emulator that has windows binaries that can be used > by a business person for more than personal use > > virtualbox isn't going to do it Why not? It works just fine on Windows, I've used it. > especially since the GPL

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
Any GPL software can be used for business. No exeptions and restrictions apply only to redistribution of modified versions. I know that Qemu runs fine under under XP, it might be very interesting if that folder sharing thing worked fine :) VirtualBox runs 100% on any windows. Surely VboxOse com

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Alain, > I know thar Qemu used to work great, and it is actively developed. It > will give you a nice emulated machine with a NIC emulation. VirtualBox > should work too, and should be much more easy. Both have nice vesa graphics. > > Neither will give you shared folders, you will have to u

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, > I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. > machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7. I want XP. so I > am up a creek without a paddle trying to do dos development and > needing a newer intel machine with more cores (4 or 6). Does Windows 7 have the ab

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > Does Windows 7 have the ability to run DOS apps? The 32-bit editions do. The 64-bit editions do not. > XP did. Only the 32-bit edition. No 64-bit version of Windows runs 16-bit apps. The NTVDM is gone and WOW16 which thunked Win16 API calls

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 13-05-2010 20:04, Eric Auer escreveu: >> Probavly the easy way to instal is with www.netbootdisk.com > > How does it differ from the NwDsk by Erwin Veermans? > http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/index.html Which disk is > better for which purpose, and why? Can you give some > more details about both? T

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Jim Michaels
I did more research I and I heard some rumblings about windows 7's "Windows XP Mode". it turns out it's a Windows Virtual PC that emulates XP yet provides access to your devices. I don't know what kind of filesystem access it provides. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/faq.asp

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: > > I did more research I and I heard some rumblings about windows 7's "Windows > XP Mode". > it turns out it's a Windows Virtual PC that emulates XP yet provides access > to your devices.  I don't know what kind of filesystem access it provides

[Freedos-devel] different sources - where to get individual official freedos files?

2010-05-13 Thread Jim Michaels
I am confused - and so, apparently is the maintainer of the freedos web site. ...as to where to go to get the freedos files, because apparently there are several places from what I have seen. so... does anyone know for sure where they are supposed to come from so I can make a good OEM build? and

Re: [Freedos-devel] different sources - where to get individual official freedos files?

2010-05-13 Thread Jim Michaels
never mind. the web site got updated since the last time I looked. From: Jim Michaels To: freedos development Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:24:24 PM Subject: [Freedos-devel] different sources - where to get individual official freedos files? I am confused - a