DOS ain't dead

Fun with vDOS (Emulation)

posted by bocke, 05.11.2014, 16:02

> I did compile and run it in Fedora 20 within VMware Workstation 10. The
> only problem I found so far is that with SDL port of PDCurses the
> copy/paste only works inside DOSBox, but not outside DOSBox, since the
> "clipboard" it uses is independent of the Linux or X11 clipboard. The
> Windows port of PDCurses does not have this problem however (I also found a
> solution for MacOS X system too). Have you tried the X11 port of PDCurses?
>

I tried that first. It didn't work.

> Apart from the above known issue, I have not been able to reproduce the
> other problems that you described. I have confirmed during my testing that
> DOSBox's CD command is case insensitive even running in Linux. Also Doszip
> commander (3.31) did not crash after trying to navigate out of the
> directory where it started in my testing. Maybe some source files used in
> your compilation are incorrect?

I used the files from the srcchanges.zip archive... I recreated it at least twice. So I would think not.

Sorry, I forgot to mention I was building on 64-bit Linux. I can try building on 32-bit Linux.

Or maybe I could take a look at Fedora srpm .spec file to see if they apply any patches to their pdcurses build.

Complete thread:

• Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 16.10.2014, 21:01 (Emulation)
  • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 17.10.2014, 02:48
    • Fun with vDOS - marcov, 17.10.2014, 10:59
      • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 18.10.2014, 04:25
        • Fun with vDOS - marcov, 19.10.2014, 14:11
          • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 22.10.2014, 21:47
    • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 18.10.2014, 04:14
      • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 19.10.2014, 00:06
        • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 19.10.2014, 03:15
          • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 17.01.2016, 00:58
    • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 18.10.2014, 06:45
      • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 19.10.2014, 00:18
      • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 22.10.2014, 21:42
        • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 25.10.2014, 21:10
          • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 25.10.2014, 22:19
          • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 30.10.2014, 02:55
            • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 30.10.2014, 22:10
            • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 04.11.2014, 01:16
              • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 04.11.2014, 03:20
                • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 04.11.2014, 15:12
                  • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 04.11.2014, 21:42
                    • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 05.11.2014, 16:02
                    • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 06.11.2014, 20:42
                • Fun with vDOS - nidud, 04.11.2014, 23:15
                  • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 05.11.2014, 01:09
                    • Fun with vDOS - nidud, 05.11.2014, 23:38
              • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 16.03.2015, 10:48
  • Fun with vDOS - RayeR, 17.10.2014, 13:43
    • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 17.10.2014, 17:14
      • Fun with vDOS - Wengier, 17.10.2014, 18:00
        • Fun with vDOS - RayeR, 17.10.2014, 20:17
        • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 18.10.2014, 04:30
  • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 18.10.2014, 07:24
    • Fun with vDOS - glennmcc, 18.10.2014, 22:01
      • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 19.10.2014, 01:11
  • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 19.10.2014, 03:44
  • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 07.01.2015, 18:25
    • Fun with vDOS - Rugxulo, 07.01.2015, 21:30
      • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 07.01.2015, 22:15
        • Fun with vDOS - bretjohn, 08.01.2015, 01:33
          • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 08.01.2015, 03:45
            • Fun with vDOS - RayeR, 09.01.2015, 20:25
              • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 09.01.2015, 21:52
        • Fun with vDOS - Rugxulo, 13.01.2015, 18:06
          • Fun with vDOS - Dennis, 13.01.2015, 20:14
      • Fun with vDOS - bocke, 16.03.2015, 11:10