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On Apr 25, 4:48 am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT  DOT  DOT  AT bitfoad DOT cmm> wrote:
> <Ster DOT  DOT  DOT  AT aol DOT com> wrote in messagenews:c25 DOT 14a1eb48 DOT 336066dc AT aol DOT com...
> > but can't we just include some old platform to support the old
>
> DOS-programs  ?
>
> I think these are the major options.
>
> 1)DOSBOXhttp://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
>     (but, DPMI support is supposedly disabled, since it's for gaming not
> development...)
>

Do you mean under Windows x86-64? Because DOSBox (from 0.61 on up to
the latest, 0.70) does indeed run pmode apps. The developers do aim it
towards gaming, but it's good for other things (booting some disk
images, taking screenshots, running Win 3.1 inside it [supposedly],
etc.)

> 2) some version of DOS running under QEMU
> FreeDOShttp://www.freedos.org
> DR-DOShttp://www.drdosprojects.de/
> PDOShttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pdos
> RDOShttp://www.rdos.net/eng/
>

ROM-DOS (free, if you sign up) :
http://datalight.com/products/romdos/productdetails_su.php

RxDOS (wimpy, slighty buggy, but not too too horrible):
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/rxdos.old/

> QEMUhttp://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>

And don't forget BOCHS : http://bochs.sf.net

> 3) some version of DOS (above) running under Linux's DOSEMU
> DOSEMUhttp://dosemu.sourceforge.net/
>
> Rod Pemberton