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Before dosbox there were dosemu (which let you use hardware but was pain to configure) and things like qemu (emulate any hardware but even more pain to configur
by thriftwy 9y ago
Before dosbox there were dosemu (which let you use hardware but was pain to configure) and things like qemu (emulate any hardware but even more pain to configure). You still had to install OS into VM. Dosbox just changed the rules of this emulation game. It was unbelieveably good even when it didn't do 32 bit yet.
- unixhero 9y agoRegarding DosEmu. How about the main developer presenting on it in 2018 from FosDem! https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2018/AW1.121/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future.webm https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2018/AW1.121/dosemu_and_fr...
- 0x0 9y agoI seem to remember using dosemu on early Linux on the console, and was amazed at seeing my graphics card perform its POST BIOS run on-demand - the first few times, I thought Linux had spontaneously rebooted, but it was just dosemu getting ready to run VESA graphics, IIRC. Or maybe I'm just misremembering?