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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dosemu on FreeBSD? Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:09:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4f4l0j$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e61g2$hsd@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <4eaikq$egd@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net (Philippe Regnauld) writes: > >I've tried building dosemu on FreeBSD with little success... > Dosemu requires vm86 modes, AND the libvga, none of which are > actually supported or ported to BSD. Some work is being done > on Dosemu, I know, but I have no idea of the level of development. You could perhaps replace the svga lib with the upcoming DGA extension in XFree86(tm). This make the vm86 stuff the biggest problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)