First post, by dtaylor
Just thought I'd mention that I have been able to get Breadbox Ensemble to run on my Linux box using DOSBox 0.60. It's a DOS-based GUI office suite, used to be New Deal Office, and it was Geoworks Ensemble before that. Not sure how to get it listed on the DOSBox compatibility list. Basically all you have to do is set
primaryFSD=ntfat.geo
in the [system] section of the GEOS.INI file and away you go. Much more stable than with DOSEmu. There's a downloadable demo at [url]http://www.breadbox.com,[/url] but unfortunately it doesn't come with the ntfat.geo file system driver. You might be able to get a copy from the folks at Breadbox if you asked, though.
I also have a couple of questions about DOSBox. First, is there a way to tell it to use resolutions higher than 640x480? Like, something I can put in the dosbox.conf file or something so that I can use, say, 800x600 with 256 colors? When I run vtest on my current DOSBox, it says there's just 640x480x256 modes available.
Second, the virtual TCP/IP modem feature sounds neat, but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do with it. I gather that I can use it to make a TCP connection look like a COM port under DOSBox. Is that correct? How do I specify the address of the computer I connect to?
Third, add me to the list of people who'd like to see some sort of printer-port emulation. I'm not all that interested in print-to-file, because I can do that anyway with my software. I'd be more interested in a way to map, say, my /dev/lp0 device to LPT1. (Um, I guess that's not really a question, is it? Oh well.)
Anyway, DOSBox seems like a pretty good emulator. Nice work!
