"Old PC" emulation ?

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Nov 2 19:54:24 2004

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:44:00PM -0500, David Holland wrote:
> > There is also DOSBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net.
>
> DOSbox is a "DOS" emulator specifically targetted to run older style DOS
> games. I know of no way to install a alternate OS in it.

I use it to play "XCom" under Linux. AFAIK, it's optimized for DOS
calls, i.e. BIOS stuff, so I would not expect MINIX to work on it,
since it's emulating a ROM API more than the hardware itself.

-ethan

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