10 Sep
1998
10 Sep
'98
5:46 a.m.
Sam Ismail wrote:
Indeed. All of the emulators that run under MS-DOS seem to run just
peachy using dosemu (though my dosemu boots DR-DOS, not MS-DOS), and
the couple of emulators that run under Windows that I've tried did
just fine under Caldera's WABI. I haven't tried Freedows, and so
far my luck with Wine has been sketchy. I haven't tried making the
emulators run by clicking on a filename, in large part due to the
confusion caused by similar extensions to filenames for executables
for different OSs and processors, and in medium part because I'm not
a graphically oriented user.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, John Foust wrote:
Think I can
sell the idea to Uncle Bill, or do you think he's already
Microserfs working on it? And perhaps even Ballmer is thinking about it:
I think what ever scheme they're concocting will ultimately fail, or in
the very least, it won't affect the rising tide of Linux. It's just too
late. This is no browser war.
Freedows is an interesting effort to run Windows
apps under Linux:
<http://www.freedows.org/english/high/index.html>.
A much more productive end goal. Port the software over to the good OS,
not the other way around.
As for the ten-year-rule, I think the
assimilation of Linux into
WinNT will be good for emulators in general, making it possible
to download old Apple II executables and double-click on them
and automagically start the right emulator.
I think the better solution is to have someone write such an interface in
Linux (someone probably already has) but your feeble attempt to make this
seem topical has failed :)