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  • Re: FreeDOS vs MS-DOS

    From Arelor@21:2/138 to Gamgee on Mon May 5 09:58:32 2025
    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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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Arelor on Mon May 5 20:33:19 2025
    Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-

    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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