To the best of my knowledge, it only emulates IBM compatible machines.
On 7/19/2018 8:16 PM, Leroy Vargas wrote:
Does 86box allow emulating a Japanese NEC PC-9800 machine? Or does it
only emulate IBM-compatible PCs?
Leroy Vargas
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:37 PM jamie marchant
<jamie.march...@sympatico.ca <mailto:jamie.march...@sympatico.ca>> wrote:
No problem :)
On 07/18/2018 04:32 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote:
> Hi, Jamie
>
> I just tried that out and it installed on 86box just fine -thank
you!
>
> Oh, and I misspoke about 86box -the highest/most recent CPU it will
> currently emulate is a pentium MMX 300.
>
> On 7/18/2018 11:56 AM, jamie marchant wrote:
>> There is a floppy image here:
>> http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip, this
link is
>> found at http://www.freedos.org/download/. That image should work
>> with most VMs.
>> On 07/18/2018 03:49 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> 86Box[1] is based off of PCem[2], a PC emulator that can emulate
>>> many kinds of PCs -from the original PC up to pentium 2 models. I
>>> like it slightly better than PCem because I like the interface
better.
>>>
>>> Some models can boot from CD-ROM, none of them can boot the
FreeDOS
>>> cdrom. The kernel freaks out and crashes.
>>>
>>> However; most models can boot FreeDOS from a floppy. From
there you
>>> can manually (fdisk,format,xcopy) install FreeDOS onto a hard
disk
>>> -at least with the models (486+) which are able to read the cdrom.
>>>
>>> For FreeDOS 1.3 it would be very helpful if there was some
sort of
>>> installer on the CD that someone could run even if they're not
able
>>> to boot the cdrom. Additionally it would be great if there was an
>>> emulator-ready floppy image included on the iso that could be
copied
>>> out and then used to boot and install FreeDOS from. (When
possible,
>>> more options are better)
>>>
>>> I've enjoyed using FreeDOS for a few years now, and I
appreciate the
>>> hard work y'all put into these releases -thank you!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Random
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/86Box/86Box
>>>
>>> [2]http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
>>>
>>>
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