First post, by Merlin
I'm new here and I was just wondering about a couple of things in the emulator. It's made in a different style to most I've used (having tried almost every pc emulator for mac that's been released).
First, I was wondering how registry emulation is handled (if at all)? I know emulators (well not really an emulator) such as wine use a fake registry, does dosbox do this, or is it a windows function? (not knowing a huge amount about pc systems...) if it's a windows function, then I suppose it would be taken care of if I installed windows under one of my directories...
Second, I've seen several mentions of launching windows formatted files. Does this mean that dosbox supports windows? (I don't have anything to test it with otherwise I'd find out for myself) I know it's an emulator focusing on dos support, but if dos then why not windows (please don't laugh I have no idea about the challenges between the two)?
Third I'd just like to say this piece of software has some brilliant ideas that I'd like to see in some of the other emulators I've used. Launching from native filesystem is a beautiful solution (as opposed to creating disk images). I also like the way it installs itself as a console tool, it makes it very handy to switch between functions.
As I said, I'm using a mac - it's a G4/800 chip and it runs dosbox quite well. There are a few minor glitches but I'm not sure whether that's because my version of SDL is on the fritz at the moment or because of endian issues. It runs native on Aqua, which is nice - I have Xfree86 but it's not needed. ( Just in case you wanted to know how portable your code is 😁 )