Subj : Re: FreeDOS vs MS-DOS
To   : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon May 05 2025 20:33:19

-=> Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ar>   Re: Re: FreeDOS vs MS-DOS
 Ar>   By: Gamgee to Jimmy Anderson on Sun May 04 2025 08:42 am

 > Wow, had not heard of this one either.  VERY interesting - I'm going to
 > be checking this out too.
 >
 > Thanks to Hollowone for mentioning it!

 Ar> I tested it for an article that I recently published.

 Ar> In my opinion, if you just want to run some DOS or even Windows 95
 Ar> application, DOSbox-X is probably the easiest way.

Yeah, that's probably my usual use-case.

 Ar> PCem and its fork 86box are targetted at emulation precision, which
 Ar> means they take a good bunch of resources to run in comparison. Also,
 Ar> since they are designed to emulate a number of devices, they are harder
 Ar> to setup. These are the options to pick if you need to replicate a
 Ar> specific environment... otherwise they are a bit overkill.

Great info, thanks.  Gonna move this one to the back-burner I guess. :-)



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