9 Dec
2013
9 Dec
'13
11:46 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/09/2013 10:29 AM, Mike Loewen wrote:
DOSBOX doesn't boot in the sense that DOS does. The DOSBOX application
starts on its own (from internal resources, not "real" .SYS files), then it
can run a BAT file to mount a drive and change to it and do the post-boot
things you might want to do in terms of setting environment variables (because
lots of DOS games use environment to find out what the soundcard params
are). DOSBOX is a DOS application environment *not* a DOS emulator
(somewhat like Wine vs VMware), so if that's what you really need, you are
correct in thinking DOSEMU will work better for you.
-ethan
dosbox has a MOUNT command with which you can
mount a Linux
directory path as a virtual dosbox drive.
I'm aware of that, but DOSEMU allows me to boot from a Linux directory. I
don't think that DOSBOX does.