DOS game support - just needs a little VGA love?

Stefan Dösinger stefan at codeweavers.com
Mon Oct 20 05:36:36 CDT 2008


> Perhaps support for more VGA features can increase compatibility of DOS
> software on 32-bit hardware. 64-bit users won't be able to run most dos
> programs as there is no vm86 support when using a 64-bit kernel. In the
> end we need x86 emulation..
Dosemu (not dosbox) works nice here on my 64 bit linux distro. How are they
doing that? Afaics dosemu uses vm86 instead of a full-blown CPU emulation.





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