[ale] WIN 3.1 in Dosemu

aaron aaron at pd.org
Thu May 24 16:06:12 EDT 2007


Remember, too, that LOSER 3.1 was deliberately designed to
be incompatible with anything but M$ DOS, since there was
a major and superior competitor at the time -- DR DOS --
with some interesting ties to Novel and, later, Caldera.

peace
aaron

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 22:06, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:50 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > That looks normal to me :)
> > 
> 
> Agreed...
> 
> 
> I got it to work in dosbox but dosbox has its own share of issues.
> first when I run a command.com shell I lose my mouse totally.  Even for
> X windows.  When I get out of the dos shell I get a garbaged dosbox and
> still can not get my mouse back.  I have to do a kill -9 from a virtual
> console.
> 
> It seems each emulator has an issue.  I did try Qemu but it does not
> support a serial port very well.  It does not pass the signals to the
> application and always has DCD high.  Even when my modem is not
> connected.  This causes the app to think something is connected and it
> refuses to work right.
> 
> Dosbox and Dosemu both have great serial port support.  I can also make
> my C: from a directory in home on both too.  This simplifies things.
> One of the programs I run is Qmodem Pro.
> 
> 
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