Re: dosemu or dosbox
On Thu June 8 2006 06:34 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:08:58AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
> > so how does dosbox work ?
>
> Dosbox is a dos environment emulator, including all the hardware. It
> emulates all the old PC video modes (cga/ega/vga/tandy/etc) and sound
> cards (tandy/sb/gus/adlib/roland/etc) and the x86 cpu. It is of course
> much slower than dosemu since it emulates everything, but it runs on any
> architecture, and given the speed of modern PCs and the expectations of
> dos software, speed should not be a big problem.
I just saw this:
---quote---
Added support for x86-64, by using CPU emulation for V86 mode, running DP code
natively.
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I don't know if that means dosemu will run on the amd64 platform now, I saw it
here
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/bleeding/NEWS
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