DosBox

Has anyone here tried !DosBox (or fast) on the newer machines – if so – how does it work out?
Can it run basic Windows?
Where does it save its config file?
Can it be made to open a DOS file?

I have play around with DosBox and FastDosBox. But the latest machine I try was a RPi B+ and a PandaES more than one year ago, I think. I newer try on ARMX6 ans IGEPv5 but I can do next few days if you have a interest.

Both (DosBox and Fast) are save there settings inside. You find infos in the helpfile. FastDosBox use the “Linuxway”, DosBox is a bit different. If you use both there are any side effects if the filer see one of them before you start the other ;-)

I have a working Win95 version. Very slow on RPi, faster on PandaES.

Win95 works only from a HDImage. The limit is 2GB.

DOS works also from a “Folder device”.

DOSCommander…

GeoWorks…

(The DOS Screenshots are very old. 5.17 on my BeagleBoard.)

… etc. are also working.

https://www.heyrick.co.uk/blog/index.php?diary=20140808

Windows 3.11 on a basic Pi (full instructions, howto…).

Then… https://www.heyrick.co.uk/blog/index.php?diary=20140809 in which we try to make the screen better than 640×480 VGA until we realise how hard that hits (in basic benchmarks).

Note that FastDOSbox (and likely DOSbox) are limited in not supporting SHARE.EXE functions, so under Win 3 you can’t run MSWord, VB3, anything “complicated”.

Might fare better with W95 but I can’t imagine how tediously slow it would be…

Note that FastDOSbox (and likely DOSbox) are limited in not supporting SHARE.EXE functions, so under Win 3 you can’t run MSWord, VB3, anything “complicated”.

Just install MS-DOS on it.
Easy. Solve all problems.

There are several caveats with FastDosBox:
- The Linux version is newer and faster, but not recompiled for RISC OS (this should be easy).
- It should be compiled again, with FVP support and a newer version of GCC (this should be easy too).
- Some patches made for Win98 support, network support, midi support, etc. are not in this version.

Hmm – this has bought a few things to light.

First using the Emulator – the ‘conf’ file is being saved in (!UnixHome.home).
It is just not shown up with ‘HostFs’ – had a look in Win – and it was there prefixed with a fullstop.

And also a config for ‘the train prog’ which had stopped working.
Deleted the file under windows – Train prog now works.

Back to the DosBox – how do you change the keys for fullscreen? same as RS.
Is it possible for RS to change its choice of LAlt/Return?

Asking perhaps too much for DoxBox to run Windows at speed.

Have a Win prog – ‘CWCom’ that decodes Morse code and receives/sends via a remote server – anyone here
had experience of making a decoder?
(Morse/Telex to characters)

Is it possible under Windows – to find out what is sent/received from a server?
WireShark!

[update] Is it possible for DosBox to open a DOS Harddisc file?

Asking perhaps too much for DoxBox to run Windows at speed.

It’s possible with FastDosBox (but not with DosBox).