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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!pi From: pi@indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) Subject: Re: dos emulator for freebsd Message-ID: <Cx8MvE.Kv5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: xyplex4-1-18.ucs.indiana.edu Reply-To: pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: A FreeBSD Enthusiast References: <jeppe.780449737@zetor.clinet.fi> <miff.781171250@apanix.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 06:18:50 GMT Lines: 32 Thus it was recorded by the prophets, miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) said: >jeppe@clinet.fi (Joachim Paganus) writes: >>Is there a dos emulator for FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 ? > >I've been using the Hedley pcemu with virtually no problems at all. >Porting was trivial, performance is (of course) not great. >(It's a fully architecture-independant emulator, Whoa! This to me is major news here! I'm willing to guess there are a lot of *BSD users out there like me who have tons of MS-DOS software that they have basically thrown into the closet since they discovered the rewards of running their own home UNIX box. And I'd also bet that many of these users like myself would also love to have some way to at least be able to run some of their DOS software again. This is something I think is worthy enough to be added to the FAQ: at the very least to educate ignorant users like myself that there are free, architecture independant, DOS emulators out there, even if *BSD doesn't specifically have support built in (to me, this was one of the only major advantages Linux had...). >Ask archie for a nearby archive site - the version I have is >pcemu1.00alpha.tar.gz I did... the archie on my side of the planet wasn't able to find it. :-( I don't suppose you'd care to let us know of a couple of places down under that might have it? -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Raymond L. Gilbert | "...the present rule in computing the circle's | | pi@indiana.edu | area is entirely wrong..." | | IUB Dept. of Physics | - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897| \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/