[Wine] Real time DOS programs

[Paul]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:10 +0200, Søren Madsen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a program written for DOS which runs in wine. However, the program 
> requires very precise timing, which is possible in DOS since its not a 
> multitasking OS. So in order to run the program sucesfully in wine, some form 
> of real-time task management needs to be present, specifically the BIOS clock 
> interrupt need to happen exactly right for "my" program to work.
> 
> Is it possible to run such programs in wine using, say, RTLinux or such?
> 

DOSEMU http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/ or DOSBox
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ might be more appropriate for running
timing critical DOS applications.   It's been a while since I've been in
the loop with DOSEMU but IIRC since Linux takes over the BIOS clock and
runs it at a different clock rate it has to emulate the 18.2ms(?)
interrupt call ... DOSBox probably does the same thing.

The difference between the two is DOSEMU is a generic DOS emulator and
DOSBox is a DOS emulator tuned for running Games.

Regards,
Paul Berger