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posted by paulrichards, 31.07.2011, 03:22

> > Dennis; thanks for your very full answer.
>
> You're welcome.
>
> One concern I don't have a clear feeling for is whether you'll be
> able to multi-boot DOS. A poster elsewhere was in high dudgeon
> because he bought a new Dell PC and discovered they'd removed the ability
> to boot MS-DOS from the BIOS. He returned it and is looking elsewhere.
> I'm less upset. Current machines are all 64bit boxes, and many current
> computer users weren't born or were toddlers when DOS was in regular use.
> The vast majority of users will have no need to boot to DOS, let alone run
> DOS apps, and won't miss the capability.
I'm beginning to think I don't want the complications of dual booting. I have an old desktop PC whose main hard drive has failed. I'm thinking of putting in a new HDD or swapping over the secondary hard drive and using this as a dedicated MS-DOS machine. I might as well use this PC since it's not doing anything at the moment.

> Play with the values in CONFIG.NT. I don't need EMS, and don't care, but
> it appears to be possible to configure it.
I have seen that but I'm not sure I understand it :-)

> I have DOSBox under Linux and it works fine. My big complaint is that
> DOSBox is intended for running old MS-DOS games, and thinks of
> screen sizes in terms of graphics resolution. As a result, it appears
> limited in character mode to 80x25 screen sizes. I want 80x50 VGA mode, or
> at least 80x43 EGA mode if I can't get 80x50.
You might find the first post here http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=22617&start=19 useful and especially the file link (TEXTUTIL.ZIP). I have used 80X50.COM in a custom JAVELIN.CONF DOSBOX config file to boot Javelin straight into 80 X 50 mode.

> Er, why do you want to run DOS full screen? I prefer large monitors with
> lots of screen real estate, and the last thing I want is a DOS app filling
> the entire screen. I want DOS apps in a window.
I just find the DOS 'window' too small, especially on a laptop screen

> In your position, I'd look at a VM solution, rather than trying to
> multi-boot.
See my first comment in this post.

Thanks again.

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