On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:20:56PM -0600, David Huang wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:39:15PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 06:27:41PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > >>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 05:22:51PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >>>> Does anybody know about the status of doscmd, which is included in > >>>> pkgsrc but is only for i386? > >>> > >>> It's dead. I would recomment qemu. > >> > >> It's only a PC emulator though. > >> dosbox is a better choice: it's a PC _and_ DOS emulator. You get a > >> straight command.com like prompt without the need to install a > >> complete operating system. > > > > Let me repeat. dosbox is dead. It depends on functionality that doesn't > > even exist on amd64 any more. It's not like you can't trivially obtain a > > DOS installation. Let's start with http://www.freedos.org/ > > > doscmd != dosbox. DOSBox runs on amd64, and will even run on PPC and SPARC. Yes, but DOSBox is effectively doing a runtime interpretation of the x86 real mode. It is still going to be slower / more resource wasting than qemu's dynamic translation (if the code behaves responanable) and you get full support for protected mode for free. Joerg