Which is exactly why I'd love to boot natively into DOS, but as soon as I do this, my accessibility provisions break down. This is why I sometimes tend to sound like a grumpy old accessibility evangelist ranting about how everything is so much more complicated just because one sensory channel doesn't work. You should listen to me sometimes. Right now I caught myself rambling to a friend about how I need to invent convoluted cascades of virtualizations and emulations just to get an old game to run as it's supposed to, whereas a sighted person would just grab an old laptop, install FreeDOS natively, burn all their vaforite games to a cd and enjoy the ride. Oops, sorry, did it again. Best, Felix
Am Mo., 16. März 2020 um 17:01 Uhr schrieb Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com>: > > I'm not sure if it will end up being relevant to this discussion or not, but > I use VMWare version 14 under Windows 10 to create a virtual machine for DOS. > I prefer MS-DOS to FreeDOS for various reasons, though I do use some of the > FreeDOS utilities. I actually have the machine set up to dual-boot, where I > can either boot Windows 10 or boot directly to "real" DOS. Virtual machines > are nice for some things, but they are far from a panacea. > > The main reason I like VMWare is that it allows you to use a real partition > on the hard drive as one of the disks in the DOS virtual machine. You are > not limited to "software hard drives" like you are in most other VM's. That > is, whatever I do to the hard drive in the DOS VM (or even directly from > Windows) automatically shows up when I boot to real DOS and vice versa. I > don't need to do any FTP'ing or creating new ISO's or even remembering what I > need to change the next time I boot up to keep my real DOS and my Virtual DOS > synchronized. > > The ability to access a real hard drive (or partition) from inside the DOS VM > is the part of VMWare that I really like. The part I really dislike is that > it does a VERY bad job of handling the keyboard. Inside the DOS VM the > modifier keys (Shift, Control, Alt) are constantly getting "stuck" and the > keyboard releases for some reason are not always correctly sent to the VM. > I'm constantly needing to press the modifier keys in the middle of my VM > sessions so the key releases are recognized like they're supposed to be. For > that reason, I don't use the VMWare Virtual DOS for any serious work since > it's a real PITA to use the keyboard. > > I do know that DOSBox will also let you access real partitions, but almost > none of the DOS programs I use work properly in DOSBox. DOSBox is FAR from > being a "real" DOS environment and is very limited in what you can do with it. > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
