Hi, On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Xavier Dury <kal...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. > > Yes, I know about DOSBox, Bochs and rpix86 but I don't want to take the easy > road :-)
DOSEMU (V86)? VirtualBox (VT-X)? Neither of those is "slow", they are both (partially) native. > I spent my youth tweaking my config.sys and autoexec.bat... and I want to do > it again > (I know, it's a bit foolish How is it foolish? It's old-fashioned, but it still (sometimes) works. You don't have to apologize for listing to old music, so why apologize for old software? > but I am in my mid 30s and I miss that feeling having all > drivers/TSRs loaded and still having 630k+ of conventional mem :-) ). > > Now that everything runs in emulators/VMs, I want something that runs on > "bare metal" > for a change There's nothing wrong with emulators ... as long as they 1). function properly and are technically correct, and 2). aren't so slow as to watch paint dry. > but I must admit that I don't know where to start or even whether it's > possible or not with modern computers. If you're using UEFI, you presumably need a CSM, but I don't know much about it (and apparently not all machines come with that). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#CSM_booting > Regarding the BIOS issue, could something like SeaBIOS help? Doubt it. > I just wanted to know if somebody had already done such a thing. Maybe I misunderstood you, but you seem intent to *only* run atop this new Intel Compute stick thingy. Have you never tried a bootable USB before? That is native and can run on any semi-modern machine with a BIOS. Do you not have any such machines available? Didn't you know this could already be done (at least in that way, which is of course different to what you're asking but still works)? 1). http://rufus.akeo.ie/ 2). http://unetbootin.github.io/ 3). http://joelinoff.com/blog/?p=431 But for games I do recommend only DOSBox. Anything else I'd probably suggest VBox or QEMU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
