Hello.
It would be a pity if dosemu would die, either by the present conflict among the developers
You probably meant a past conflict. It is long-time over with an apparent consequences. What is still missing is only an "official" anouncement about these consequences to help people (including distributors) make their minds straight. We all can see the development stopped, but it will help a lot if this is said explicitly or refuted, so that people can think what to do next.
or by neglect by the major distributions.
That tradition comes from an older times when dosemu used to urge the users to run it as root, when the dosemu.org's page had a jokes about RedHat (calling it "Colored Cap") etc. And now the non-portable software doesn't rate by distributors at all.
There are many legacy DOS programs out there which are still actively used.
Have you evaluated dosbox? I did - works for games, doesn't work for work (lacks serial port emulation which I need). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
