dosemu-0.66.5 - PC Emulator for x86 based Linux
Hans Lermen
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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The DOSEMU team is proud to announce DOSEMU 0.66.5, the PC Emulator for
x86 based Linux. Please remember to consider this as ALPHA software.
WHAT IS DOSEMU?
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DOSEMU is a PC Emulator application that allows Linux to run a DOS
operating system in a virtual x86 machine. This allows you to run
many DOS applications. These are capabilities of DOSEMU worth noting:
- Color text and full keyboard emulation (via hotkeys) via terminal.
- Built-in X-Windows support, includes IBM character set font!
- Graphics capability at the console with most compatible video cards.
- Graphics emulation in X for 256 color modes.
(X-server may be in true color mode)
- DPMI support
- able to run (handicapped) Windows-3.1 either on console or in X.
(you need the os2win31.zip package, and licenses for both,
Windows-3.1 and OS/2. see doc/README.Windows)
- Runs Borland BCC.EXE/TCC.EXE version 3.x command line compilers!
- Runs Borlandc C++ 3.x IDE
- Runs several 32-bit DPMI-compilant video games, including DOS/4GW,
at the Linux console.
- NetBSD version of DOSEMU appreciating a growing success,
contact j...@atria.com.
- CDROM support.
- Sound support (including emulated sound DMA)
- NetWare and other network connectivity via builtin IPX and pktdrvr
support.
REQUIREMENTS
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- Linux >= 2.0.28 (with IPC support, IPX support optional)
- mtools-3.6 (for creating hdimages and DEXEs)
When compiling dosemu yourself:
- GCC 2.7.2+ and LIBC 5.2.18+ are recommended for best results.
- Plenty of swap, since DOSEMU requires between 12 and 25 megabytes
of total memory to compile, depending on configuration.
CREDITS
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This release could not have gotten out the door without the work of
the our relentless development team and friends, currently consisting
of at least:
Jon Tombs Aaron Karl Kiniger
Daniel R. Barrlow Christoph Niemann Theodore T'so
Derek Fawcus Linus Torvalds Alan Cox
Alessandro Rubini Corey Sweeney James Maclean
Hans Lermen Andrew.Tridgell Jochen Hein
Jason E Gorden Lam Lai Yin, Savio Alistair MacDonald
Lawrence K Mao Ronnie Mark Rejhon
Michael E. Deisher Larry Stephan Lutz Molgedey
Amit Margalt Marty Leisner Dong Liu
Scott Buchholz Tim Van der Linden John Davis
Kang-Jin Lee Matthew Grant David Hansen
John Kohl Kevin P Lawton Rod May
Wayne P Meissner Vinod G Kulkarni Andries
David Etherton Alberto Vignani Eric W. Biederman
Erik Mouw Arjan Filius Uwe Bonnes
Rainer Zimmermann Steffen Winterfeld David Brauman
Rutger Nijlunsing
and others too important to mention.
WHERE TO GET IT:
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The DOSEMU PC Emulator can be downloaded from the following FTP sites:
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/...
ftp.suse.com:/pub/dosemu/...
.../dosemu-0.66.5-bin.tgz
.../dosemu-0.66.5.tgz
The binary distribution is statically linked against libc-5.4.23 and libX*
from XFree-3.3. It should run on all current Linux distributions.
HELPING US
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Many thanks to all who have helped with this release, by sending bug
reports, patches, comments and/or ideas for DOSEMU! Our apologies for
not having answered every letter, and possibly missing some important
information. If you know something you think we should know, contact
us, PLEASE! We can be reached at:
"The DOSEMU team" <linux...@vger.rutgers.edu>
http://www.suse.com/~dosemu/
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