Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-23 Thread Blair Campbell
In terms of fulfillment of goals, yes, FreeDOS is much farther ahead. In terms of things that can be done, ReactOS has much larger shoes to fill. ReactOS aspires to be able to do as much as Windows, whereas DOS is probably somewhat simpler to clone. But yes, FreeDOS is probably more useable at th

[Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-23 Thread Larry
I took a look at the reactOS project today. I'm assuming that you folks would agree that Freedos is much further along than reactOS? That is, it would not be foolhardy to expect to use Freedos in some actual business applications? It doesn't appear to me that reactOS is anywhere near being usa

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Eric
On Saturday 23 September 2006 21:22, Marcel Tschudin wrote: > After the hint on Microsoft I tried to install their Virtual Server 2005, > but it refuses an installation on Windows XP Home edition... > > Now I'm on the page of VMware and wonder what would be more appropriate for > my application, th

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Grove
If you can get hold of it, you might be better off using an older version of Virtual Server 2005, ie Microsoft's Virtual PC 2003. I don't think you'll have the same issues with that and Windows XP Home. Hope this helps a little. Regards Chris. ___

Re: [Freedos-user] Re DOS on VM ? (Marcel E. Tschudin)

2006-09-23 Thread Marcel Tschudin
If you use the Microsoft one you can access the virtual hard disk filesdirectly with a program called Winimage which makes moving files to and from the virtual machine really easy. Regards Chris.It seems that my mail, where I indicated that the Microsoft Server didn't work, arrived just a bit too l

[Freedos-user] Re DOS on VM ? (Marcel E. Tschudin)

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Grove
If you use the Microsoft one you can access the virtual hard disk files directly with a program called Winimage which makes moving files to and from the virtual machine really easy. Regards Chris. P.S. have you thought about running the program under Windows XP in a dos session?? It may be a bit

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Marcel Tschudin
After the hint on Microsoft I tried to install their Virtual Server 2005, but it refuses an installation on Windows XP Home edition...Now I'm on the page of VMware and wonder what would be more appropriate for my application, the VMware Player or the VMware Server? Framework was great, you know its

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Tony
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:07:20 +0300 > From: "Marcel E. Tschudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ? > To: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hello everybody out there > > Jus

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Grove
>Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:07:20 +0300 >From: "Marcel E. Tschudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ? >To: >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Hello everybody out there > >

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Marcel Tschudin
First, thank you Eric and Aitor for your replies. > 1) Which of the two VMs would be preferable for this application.Neither. You can use Bochs or QEMU which are both free and open source ;-)But well, VMWare will work, too. As probably all others... There might be other technical criteria which mig

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hello, 2006/9/23, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I would like to get Ashton Tate's old Framework III running on my computer > > with Windows XP. This seem to be possible by installing a virtual machine > > and on this DOS. From what I could find out so far, there are two VM > > freeware one

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Eric Auer
> I would like to get Ashton Tate's old Framework III running on my computer > with Windows XP. This seem to be possible by installing a virtual machine > and on this DOS. From what I could find out so far, there are two VM > freeware one from Microsoft (Microsoft Virtual Server 2005) and one from

[Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Marcel E. Tschudin
Hello everybody out there Just joined the list hoping to get from somewhere an advice on how to do. I would like to get Ashton Tate's old Framework III running on my computer with Windows XP. This seem to be possible by installing a virtual machine and on this DOS. From what I could find out so