Working on "DOS" VGA.

[Chris Ahrendt]

On 4/3/2010 11:34 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Stefan Dösinger<stefandoesinger at gmx.at>  writes:
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>> Am 02.04.2010 um 02:08 schrieb chris ahrendt:
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>>> Just my 2 phennings worth on this...
>>> Why reinvent the wheel... I would say instead of doing the emulator inside wine... or a JIT... why not have
>>> wine intersept the call to start the vm86 mode.. and forks off and starts DOSEMU or whatever DOS box system is
>>> configured.. That way wine doesnt have to worry about it...
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>> Because you can mix modes in one executable. Take for example the
>> average modern dos game: They start as real mode apps, then switch to
>> a 32 bit protected mode dos extender(e.g. dos4gw.exe). I wouldn't be
>> surprised if the app can transform itself into a Win16 app that tries
>> to pop up a window. Wouldn't work well in Linux dosemu.
>>      
> DOS apps can't do that. Pretty much the only thing you really have to
> share is the filesystem, and it should be easy to configure DosBox to
> mount ~/.wine/drive_c, and to invoke Wine when a DOS app starts a
> Windows binary.
>
> There's no reason to replicate DosBox inside Wine. On the contrary, a
> nice project would be to improve integration with an external DOS
> emulator and then rip out the half-broken vm86 support from Wine.
>
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That is what I would think should be done...

chris