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Re: dosbox v. dosemu
- Subject: Re: dosbox v. dosemu
- From: peregrine@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:56:26 -0500
I was a relative newbie to Ubuntu Linux when I decided to install DOSbox and try running XyWrite within it. What I didn't realize at the time was that DOSemu is bundled in the default Ubuntu installation, and that it's still in somewhat active development. The people who developed DOSbox seem to have abandoned it now, though from what I can tell it functions well enough in most or all Linux distributions.
In practical terms, this means that you're more likely to find community support for DOSemu than for DOSbox. Sometimes that's important, but the documentation for both programs is good enough to give any of us old DOS-tweakers a good shot at solving our own problems. I actually have XyWrite on two Ubuntu boxes now, running under DOSbox on one and under DOSemu on the other. Both run well enough to suit me, though I dearly miss the U2 routines. I still have a functional XyWrite installation on a Win98 laptop for the few times I desperately need one of those routines.
I'm no expert, Rafe, but my impression is that both programs were developed largely to allow us to run old DOS games more than anything else. Printing therefore would not be a priority, and may not be well supported. And though I would LIKE to print from XyWrite, its facility as an editor is worthy of my efforts but I don't feel the same about its printing and formatting capabilities. I can import ASCII text into almost any program on any platform, and print from there. Far from ideal, and I've coined a word to describe all this: clunktional.
Jeff
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:28:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Raphael Tennenbaum" mailto:raphael@xxxxxxxx
Subject: dosbox v. dosemu
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I've been intrigued by Bob and Jeff's forays into Dosemu and Dosbox. though
it's
supposed to be easy, Dosemu never was for me, while Dosbox worked out of the
box. so I'm curious -- though I went through the message archives pretty
carefully, I may have missed something -- why use Dosemu, if Dosbox was
working okay? (printing? system resources?)
while I haven't experimented much with Dosbox past mounting the fat32 C: drive
on my Thinkpad box as C: & creating and saving a file, it certainly seems
promising.
I've rejoined the list after some years away, mostly because I'm very slowly but
perhaps inevitably migrating to Linux, since while for the moment, this beloved
OS/2 system is still functioning, the next generation of hardware is apt to make
OS/2 obsolete.
I'd played around with previous versions of Suse, but the maturity of 10.2
(YAST's
package management actually works) and the slickness of the version of KDE, and
a growing familiarity with Linux, are enough to give me confidence I could move
over in less than a few days' time.
-rafe t.