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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> On 28 May 2000, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
>
> > Bar qnl, Evpuneq Qnjr znqr gur sbyybjvat jbeqf nccrne ba bhe fperraf:
> > > This works well. Once you've built the programs, you can run them using
> > > dosemu. You could also use VMware to run DOS or Windows in a virtual
> > > machine under Linux. This works well, if a little slowly. See:
> > >
> > > http://www.vmware.com/
> > >
> > VMware is ek$pensive... Try DOSemu if you only need DOS.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Unless you crack the free limited trial version using a crack at
> astalavista.box.sk........ ;)

I don't think comments like it are good for this list, please keep the ilegal
ideas for private e-mails.

> DOSEmu is good, but I would suggest that you use another version of dos
> like pc-dos or dr-dos rather than the default Free-dos

They aren't redistributable, I think including Free-DOS is a good idea, if you
don't like it you can just use M$ DOS, but if you don't have an M$ license you
at least have a DOS.

> that comes with
> it...IMHO it is very unstable and caused a lot of FAT corruption on my
> disk image...the "DOS-C version 1.0.2 Compatibility level 3.31" is the
> offender...
>
> On the subject of Emulators, WINE is getting really great, I can run
> Mortal Komabt 4, delta force 2, Caesar 3 on WINE.....

Because it is not a real emulator ;-) (is more an implementation of the Win32
API by other than M$, closer to what OS/2 did for Win16).

SET

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