[Wine] How to: Run a DOS program using Wine

DARKGuy . dark.guy.2008 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 13:41:36 CDT 2008


Doesn't DOSBox work for the job?

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sergio Samayoa
<sergiosamayoa at icon.com.gt> wrote:
> > LOL have you actually read what hardware he is running this stuff on? And
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>  No, I haven't readed in which HW he is trying to run it.
>  Which is ?
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>  > why in the world would one need a whole VM for DOS?!
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>  Isolation.
>  I haven't readed how old is his program but I use to be a DOS Developer and
>  used a lot of low level OS bypassed features such BIOS calls, direct memory
>  access, port access, etc. which I guess wine can't manage.
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>  Your VM could be as big as you need: set it with just 1 Mb of RAM and disk
>  abot few Mb.
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>  Regards.
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>  -----Mensaje original-----
>  De: wine-users-bounces at winehq.org [mailto:wine-users-bounces at winehq.org] En
>  nombre de vitamin
>  Enviado el: Lunes, 07 de Abril de 2008 07:58 a.m.
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> Para: wine-users at winehq.org
>  Asunto: [Wine] Re: How to: Run a DOS program using Wine
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> Sergio Samayoa wrote:
>  > Beter install Free-DOS on VMWare virtual machine.
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>  LOL have you actually read what hardware he is running this stuff on? And
>  why in the world would one need a whole VM for DOS?!
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