[PLUG] dosemu & wine

[Galen Seitz]

> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:31, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   I've tried to find mail lists for dosemu and wine, but without success. If
> > someone knows of one, or knows what google search term will reveal them.
> 
> DOSEMU is kinda dead, or close to it, I think.  I don't know about Wine
> mailing lists... the FreeDOS mailing lists, however, will often handle
> DOSEMU questions (in my experience) ...

"I'm not dead!"
www.dosemu.org
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-msdos&r=1&w=2

> 
> >   From my readings so far, it seems that I need to actually install DOS or
> > Windows on the vfat partition. It's /dev/hd10 and mounted on /dos7. Before,
> > I had PC-DOS7 installed in the mbr of /dev/hdb1 so dosemu worked just fine.
> > Now it won't boot. I think that I could access my ol' DOS app via wine, so
> > I'd rather focus on that.
> 
> Ok... DOSEMU and WinE are two totally different things.  DOSEMU boots up
> DOS inside a sorta-virtualized machine.  You run DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS,
> PC-DOS, whatever) inside a window.  It is *slower than hell* ...

It works fine here.  I have used it quite extensively to run cross tools
for various microcontrollers.

BTW, the latest versions of Freedos have a working network redirector.
This was the only thing preventing me from wiping Microsoft off my box
entirely.  I hope to try it soon.  If it works, my MSDOS image will be
history.


I recently tried to install some Windows-hosted cross tools using Wine.
Unfortunately, the installer (InstallShield, I think) need stdole32.tlb,
and wine doesn't have a native version of it.  I would need to have 
licensed version of W95 or W98 to legally use Microsoft's file.

galen