Reply 1 of 4, by kjliew
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If you want a full x86 emulator, you should look into Bochs or QEMU. I think DOSBox is fine at its current direction, ie. focus on supporting DOS gaming.
Reply 2 of 4, by avatar_58
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wrote:If you want a full x86 emulator, you should look into Bochs or QEMU. I think DOSBox is fine at its current direction, ie. focus on supporting DOS gaming.
Considering thats all people will use it for.....I'm glad.
Reply 3 of 4, by mirekluza
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wrote:Would DOSBox ever become a full x86 emulator? What I means that, it would be able to run any x86 OS with the "boot" command, like Linux, Windows 9x, Windows NT/2000/XP.
No. The DOSBOX was not designed for that. DOSBOX is perfect for its task, but I do not think it would make a good "general" emulator... There are better choices for that.
Mirek
Reply 4 of 4, by Gene Wirchenko
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wrote:wrote:If you want a full x86 emulator, you should look into Bochs or QEMU. I think DOSBox is fine at its current direction, ie. focus on supporting DOS gaming.
Considering thats all people will use it for.....I'm glad.
I use DOSBox for running WordStar 2000. Some of the later changes in Windows have caused WordStar to quit working. With DOSBox, I have my editor back!
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko