Subject: Re: z50 and MS-DOS emulation
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: None <shlomo.steinberg@motorola.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/06/2002 17:42:57
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Thomas Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:15:00   
>  shlomo.steinberg wrote:
> 
> >I succeded in running on winCE2.11 pocketDos which give us >performance of an 286 with cga display - but can run old games and >text based softwares for dos.
> 
> Thank you for your reply.  WinCE2.11 PocketDOS isn't a NetBSD application, right?  I am looking for something to run DOS on the z50 under NetBSD.  
> 
> I have tried both pcemu and bochs from the NetBSD package collection building on my z50 as well as the precompiled packages.  Pcemu segfaults immediately on launch.  I've gotten bochs to boot to a DOS prompt with FreeDOS, but it's dog slow.  I haven't yet tried bochs with real DOS.  
> 
> Thanks again!  
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Tom

When I run it at normal resolution on wince211 is inpossible to use so I
just ask him to resize the screen to half.... so maybe also bochs has
option to be light on the screen adapter by usign a lighther display