Subj : Re: Running FREEDOS on Raspbery Pi
To : Paul Hayton
From : Darryl Perry
Date : Mon Dec 29 2014 11:25 am
On 12/27/14, Paul Hayton said the following...
PH> On 12/26/14, Darryl Perry pondered and said...
PH>
PH> DP> I don't know how many people out there have a Raspberry Pi, but I
PH> DP> thought I'd put this out there.
PH>
PH> Just got one for Christmas :-)
PH>
PH> DP> I run Mystic BBS on my Raspberry Pi, and until now, I could not run d
PH> DP> doors. Most Sysops who run linux have to run dosemu to emulate dos.
PH> DP> dosemu has not been ported to run on the RPi yet. So, dosemu is not
PH> DP> option for RPi.
PH>
PH> I've been running Mystic under Windows and have not attempted Linux
PH> (yet) but wanted to give it a go with the Pi, so this is all helpful
PH> info thanks..
PH>
PH> DP> But, I have discovered a new app called 8986tiny that is a dos emula
PH> DP> that runs freedos.... on the Raspberry Pi!
PH> DP> If you run raspbian, you can simply do a 'apt-get install 8086tiny',
PH> DP> then run it from anywhere as '8086tiny'
PH> DP> I thought you would like to know. Enjoy!
PH>
PH> Cool, thanks for sharing Darryl. I may yet pick your brains a bit (if
PH> that's ok) as I try and set up a test system on the Pi.
I've been working on it a bunch more. I'm having some issues getting doors
to work. Unlike dosemu, 8086tiny does not redirect com ports to a virtual
port. This may, or may not be a problem. I cannot get lord to run, whether
using BNU fossil, or strait non-fossil setup. It will flash the intro
screen, then dump me off. I haven't figured out why yet.
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