Hi! > source system. Can Q-Soft 2 run on any Linux system via Wine?
You will have to try. How fancy is the GUI / network / etc.? How much contact to low level hardware is required? > Can Linux still support the ISA bus I see drivers for ancient graphics cards vanishing from default distros from time to time, but I guess you still have something VESA VBE compatible and maybe PCI network? I assume you only need ISA for your special hardware ISA cards for which you will need special drivers anyway? Are Linux drivers for those available? Which features etc.? > and run on as little as a 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 SBC? Easily. As with Windows, it is significantly less fun to run on a single core CPU, but unlike Windows, Linux will not keep one core busy with antivirus 24/7 ;-) > Can Freedos replace the MS-DOS 6.22 system in this machine? Probably, unless you also run Windows for Workgroups or other things highly optimized to run with *Microsoft* DOS. > The major problems you will run into is the proprietary ISA card. > Maybe Virtualbox could help here on a powerful enough SBC with a > PICMG-1.3 backplane that has ISA. Small computers from the Raspberry Pi size? Those usually use ARM CPU, so even running DOS or Win9x at all will need a simulation step. Of course you could use Virtualbox or similar tools, but then you could just as well use ANY new computer in the first place and simulate everything else. Your problem will be to use your special ISA cards and as your software seems to require Win9x, not just DOS, just running FreeDOS on bare hardware will not be enough. You can of course try the HX DOS extender which can run some "low requirement" Windows apps directly in DOS for that, but I would not expect Wine to work well. Too many layers of abstraction between your Windows app and the ISA slot. Industry PC with DOS compatible CPU and ISA slot may work. So what exactly are the requirements of your software and what are the features of your ISA cards? Non-ISA hardware and software might exist, maybe even open source, which can do similar work than your Q-Soft, but I do not know what Q-Soft and QSP do? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
