msdos emulation

[ccrayne at crayne.org]

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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