Archiving Software

Jim Leonard wrote: Well it's more that I don't know what restrictions DOSEMU places on programs trying to access the bare hardware - assuming that it allows it at all. ImageDisk seems very competent at doing what it says on the tin - it's just not clear what "the tin" is when running under an emulator ;-) It was just a sudden random thought this morning that it *might* work - or if not, that maybe WINE (emulating a Win95 machine) will let it run. Dave, assuming you're reading this, how does ImageDisk talk to the hard disk (for saving/loading images) and to the screen? Does it use DOS system calls, or BIOS routines, or talk to the bare hardware? If it uses DOS then I suppose that side of things should Just Work (tm). If it uses the BIOS, there's a fair chance it'll work. If it does things by talking direct to the hardware (unlikely for the hard disk side of it, but not so unreasonable for the video I guess) then I'm less sure it'll work... I should be picking up another scrap (as in spare) modern PC tomorrow, so I'll chuck Linux etc. on that and give it all a try in a setup where I'm not going to lose anything important if things go horribly horribly wrong :) cheers Jules