Re: Re: FreeDOS vs MS-DOS
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!

I tested it for an article that I recently published.

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

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


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Re: Re: FreeDOS vs MS-DOS
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!

I tested it for an article that I recently published.

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

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

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