Subj : Re: Running FREEDOS on Raspbery Pi
To   : Paul Hayton
From : Darryl Perry
Date : Mon Dec 29 2014 11:25 am

On 12/27/14, Paul Hayton said the following...
 
 PH> On 12/26/14, Darryl Perry pondered and said...
 PH>  
 PH>  DP> I don't know how many people out there have a Raspberry Pi, but I
 PH>  DP> thought I'd put this out there.  
 PH> 
 PH> Just got one for Christmas :-)
 PH> 
 PH>  DP> I run Mystic BBS on my Raspberry Pi, and until now, I could not run d
 PH>  DP> doors.  Most Sysops who run linux have to run dosemu to emulate dos. 
 PH>  DP> dosemu has not been ported to run on the RPi yet.  So, dosemu is not 
 PH>  DP> option for RPi.
 PH> 
 PH> I've been running Mystic under Windows and have not attempted Linux
 PH> (yet) but wanted to give it a go with the Pi, so this is all helpful
 PH> info thanks..
 PH> 
 PH>  DP> But, I  have discovered a new app called 8986tiny that is a dos emula
 PH>  DP> that runs freedos.... on the Raspberry Pi!
 PH>  DP> If you run raspbian, you can simply do a 'apt-get install 8086tiny',
 PH>  DP> then run it from anywhere as '8086tiny'
 PH>  DP> I thought you would like to know.  Enjoy!
 PH> 
 PH> Cool, thanks for sharing Darryl. I may yet pick your brains a bit (if
 PH> that's ok) as I try and set up a test system on the Pi.

I've been working on it a bunch more.  I'm having some issues getting doors
to work.  Unlike dosemu, 8086tiny does not redirect com ports to a virtual
port.  This may, or may not be a problem.  I cannot get lord to run, whether
using BNU fossil, or strait non-fossil setup.  It will flash the intro
screen, then dump me off.  I haven't figured out why yet.

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