Re: DOSEMU

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Matthew Haas wrote:

> Yes, I know DOSEMU is largely x86 dependant. Nonetheless, I am wondering
> if anyone has ever gotten it to run on non-x86 machines. I seem to
> remember reading a while back talk of people running it on an Alpha...

I once tried to compile it ;) apparently there is a soft-cpu emulation,
which can be turned on with a configure option... 

> Anywho... I am currently playing with 0.64.4, mainly because it's the
> oldest copy I could find (less x86 specific features). My problem is that
> it is requiring as86 and ld86 ... is there a package available with these
> (I saw an m68k binutils... would it be in the multiarch?)... I just want
> to see how far I can get with it... be nice to play some of my old DOS
> games again on my LX without giving up too much speed.

binutils is quite different from *86. I compiled as86 and ld86 on
sparc... and later when I tried to compile dosemu with it, it crashed
quite... terribly :) I don't remember precisely what it wanted to do, but
it involved writing gigabytes of data to the filesystem with one write()
syscall :) Everything else stopped while that 1.5G of free space was
filled :)
I haven't tried anything since...

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