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I like the screenshot (the Twitter link). Looks like he is: - Running WP 6.2 - Inside a dosemu2 - Inside a Linux VM (WSL, likely) - In a Window
by skrebbel 6y ago
I like the screenshot (the Twitter link). Looks like he is:
- Running WP 6.2
- Inside a dosemu2
- Inside a Linux VM (WSL, likely)
- In a Windows 10 terminal window
I'm not sure if dosemu2 includes actual DOS code, but if so it's an MS OS running a Linux running another MS OS running Word Perfect. Either way, amazing inception.
I'm assuming he's using that odd WSL+dosemu2 detour and not a native Windows DOSBox build because afaik DOSBox makes its own fake terminal (it simulates the pixels, not the text). So with it he can't just WP6.2 straight from the active terminal window.
It's also kind of a testament to how well WSL works in practice that one can go "I want $OBSCURE_THING. Damn, doesn't work on Windows, hmm I'll try the Linux version ok that works done". This is the same thing that finally got me, a lifetime Windows user, access to important productivity software such as gti, sl, cowsay and lolcat.
- wenc 6y agoLooks like there are ways of running WP DOS on Windows 10 64-bit with fewer layers of abstractions http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/64bitwindows.html http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/64bitwindows.html