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No, the technology serving what you're describing is microVMs, or taken even further, unikernels. FreeDOS has no technical relevance other than its intended pu
by arghwhat 2y ago
No, the technology serving what you're describing is microVMs, or taken even further, unikernels.
FreeDOS has no technical relevance other than its intended purpose of continued support for legacy DOS applications on modern hardware - which is perfectly fine.
- gwbas1c 2y agoLast time I wanted to run an old DOS game, I used DOSBox. (But it appears DOSBox isn't actively maintained)
- denkmoon 2y agomore for running oem firmware tools and such than dos games.
- arghwhat 2y agoNot anymore, it's either signed EFI binaries or handled live from user space (with LVFS covering the Linux side). Sometimes vendors still ship boot images, but nowadays it's likely a small Linux live ISO.
- sirwhinesalot 2y agoWith how fast hardware is these days, full hardware emulation of old motherboards/CPUs/etc. is better, as in PCem
- p_ing 2y agoDOSBox-X is actively maintained. https://dosbox-x.com/ https://dosbox-x.com/
- bni 2y agoor DOSBox Staging, https://www.dosbox-staging.org https://www.dosbox-staging.org