Am 11.08.2011 18:18, schrieb Vincent Povirk: > I'm not sure DOSBox is able to competently open some random executable > file. One would have to make a config file that sets up a drive > mapping, runs the file, and quits. If Wine can do these things (and > maybe also properly handle cases where the COM executable expects to > be run on a windows machine or, say, a dos machine with win3.1 > installed), it seems like a fine choice to me.
Wine can. See winevdm/winevdm.c:start_dosbox. I'm currently working on fixing issues on both sides. Am 11.08.2011 17:57, schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > While I am at it, EXE files are not clearly Wine's either - they could > be real-mode DOS executables, or .NET code intended for Mono on *nix. > At some point, Wine/Mono/DOSBox and related projects need to have a > talk about some kind of arbitration mechanism. Am 11.08.2011 18:18, schrieb Vincent Povirk: > There was some talk on #mono (or #monodev) to the effect that the > arbitration mechanism for different kinds of files is called mime > types, and a DOS exe, x86/x64 PE exe, and CLR exe are all different > and should have different mime types. Talks are good, but did one project already do something for that, wo we can build upon it? -- Best Regards, André Hentschel
