Re: DOS Emulator

[michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 1/21/2003 09:38 AM -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:
> The difficulty is, that unless you bought the full retail version (generic
> installation) CD from M$, this strategy generally won't work...
> If however you want to _buy_ a full generic version, that's easy
> enough...but a different problem then arises, with new hardware which the
> old OpSys doesn't recognize (for Plug'n'Play) -- gotta go fetch from each
> manufacturer. And what are you going to do about updating the BIOS? Most
> BIOSes are tweaked for specific
> machines these days -- you can't just go to Phoenix and get "the latest"
> without running a grave danger of disabling your machine (and no going
> back!).
> In short, it can be done, but no guarantees.
So, in sum, if you want a DOS based OS to keep XyDos running in, say, a
DosBox, and if you want a stable Win OS with a bios and drivers to run all
the new devices and so on, either use a partition (XP, say, with W98
partition) or use XP in full-screen dos emulation and live with the
screen?...This assuming TAME is still too distracting and that DOS
emulators mentioned here won't correct the DosBox jitters in XP. In other
words, save the expensive and as yet untested (here) Virtual PC and the
like, there are no other alternatives with the latest hardware/OS combos?

Michael Norman