msdos emulation

[Chris Bajumpaa]

I too was going to do some work on the dos emulation, but was waiting for
Owe to submit his dos restructure.

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Chris Bajumpaa

<ccrayne at crayne.org> wrote in message news:9rfg40$41l$1 at odin.asgard...
> In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110271327340.1343-100000 at mizar.ping.uio.no>, on
> 10/27/01
>    at 01:43 PM, Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no> said:
>
> :I'm not very actively working on it, but I do have some unsubmitted
> :restructure work in my tree. What do you plan to work on?
>
> Thank you (and Eric) for responding.
>
> I have various Win95, Win3.1, and DOS programs which I wish to run under
> Linux. The DOS programs are mostly games which are currently run in a DOS
> virtual machine under OS/2. To date, I have discovered three issues which
> need to be resolved.
>
> 1. The DOS 7.0 command.com makes a number of int 21 and int 2f calls which
> are not currently supported in WINE.
>
> 2. One of the games requires 320x200x4 graphic resolution.
>
> 3. Another game requires expanded storage.
>
> I have previously tried each of these games in dosemu, with unsatisfactory
> results.
>
> I plan to begin by cleaning up the "err:" and "fixme:" messages which
> command.com is triggering -- with stubs where I can, and real code where I
> must -- after which I will tackle the games themselves.
>
> Have either of you any advice for me?
>
>
> -- Chuck Crayne
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> ccrayne at crayne.org
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