Frantisek Rysanek escreveu:
I am interested in making a simple linux, with something like BusyBox,
only to run dos programs...
While I was looking for some solutions to my problem, I noticed
there's vgaemu - the emulator that's used to display VGA graphics in
a window under XWindows.
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BTW, what graphics hardware do you have in mind? Have you met some
framebuffer graphics device coupled to an x86 CPU, that is not VGA
compatible? Okay, I know the VGA compatibility can have glitches...
If you did have some such VGA-incompliant graphics device, you might
face other challenges, such as getting a Linux kernel framebuffer
graphics driver for that, or direct support (driver) in SDL...
I am not thinking of VGA graphics, but VESA... First of all because I
use 800x600.
There are very good drivers that autodetect all existing video hardware.
That is basicaly what I have in mind.
My point is that Dosemu works very well in grahic mode under X, *better
then any other simulator* so my idea is just to use that as a basis for
a dos system.
Thare is also a few advantages: Linux network support and better
filesystem. I have noticed that compiling a program under dosemu is
*faster* that with plain DOS on the same machine !!!
Alain
Good luck with your DOSEMU mini-distro. I suggest that you include a
bootloader option to boot plain DOS (FreeDOS?) straight on bare metal
:-)
Frank Rysanek
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