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Any USB HID (keyboard) driver for DOS? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 07.12.2008, 20:35

> > DOSEMU, perhaps? There is a pre-built binary on SourceForge (w/ FreeDOS
> > part too) although you need S-Lang 2, IIRC. Or try that DRLX thingy
> that
> > was open sourced recently. (Or even DOSBox although that needs a lot of
> > libraries. But at least you have enough RAM for it, heh. antiX Mepis
> > GNU/Linux has DOSBox 0.72, and it's targeted at 128 MB machines or 64
> MB
> > w/ swap.) Or QEMU, BOCHS, etc.
>
> Yes dosemu would be only way to run dos stuffs there. Dosbox is definitely
> too slow on such hardware (even my C2D @3,5GHz don't run some games and
> demos fully smooth :P).

I know I'm probably telling you what you already know, but DOSBox is full cpu emulation (only up to 486DX) and written in C++ (not multi-threaded), so of course it's slower than it has to be. Probably VMware or VirtualBox are faster, but I'm not sure. But DOSBox does have better gfx and sound support than fast DOSEMU (from my limited experience), but latter is usually good enough.

> Currently I'm playing with kernel
> (little bit tricky to compile and make initrd of 2.4 kernel on 2.6 machine
> but I'm getting some advices from Frank Boehm - linux guru on T20 :)
The trickiest part is finding the right GCC to use. But of course that assumes the srcs are in order anyways (not always fun to massage).

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