First post, by DosFreak
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From the website:
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Running QEMU with HX QEMU is a PC emulator application available for many platforms. The Win32 ports of QEMU 0.6.0, 0.7.0 and 0. […]
Running QEMU with HX
QEMU is a PC emulator application available for many platforms. The Win32 ports of QEMU 0.6.0, 0.7.0 and 0.7.2, which are based on SDL, were successfully tested to run with HXGUI [a binary may be downloaded from here]. Since the QEMU Win32 port is in a preliminary state as well, it is very likely that bugs will be found. The source code of QEMU can be downloaded from http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu.
Some notes about running QEMU under HX
please be aware that QEMU requires huge amounts of virtual memory. Since HX doesn't support a swapfile, virtual memory is identical to physical memory. For example, running QEMU with a 128 MB guest requires about 170 MB of RAM.
don't expect any performance boosts running QEMU on HX/DOS. If there is a gain by avoiding the overhead of a multitasking environment like windows, this gain is -more than - lost by the simple fact that in DOS there is no 2D graphics acceleration available.
Haven't tried it yet.....this kind of thing defies the laws of physics! I'm afraid my computer will blow up! heh.
It would be hilarious to boot up Windows 9x/NT in DosBox using Qemu tho.
EDIT Just found this compatibility list and guess what....DosBox is compatible....scary. http://www.japheth.de/COMPAT.TXT
Wonder what would happen if I tried to load DosBox on this old P166 laptop using DOS and tried to play a simple booter game....hmmmm. Guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend.