DOS ain't dead

Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application (DOSX)

posted by Steve  , US, 17.10.2007, 01:13

> > Only way is emulator or realdos. But realdos will have
> > problem with future HW I guess... :((
>
> Yes, virtualization is probably the way of the future, and it ain't so bad
> (much better than nothing). (And yes, hardware keeps changing, often
> incompatible, not much we can do about that except keep coding!)

Another solution: Buy spare parts. Last year's motherboards, hard drives, etc. are cheap now.

Complete thread:

• Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Jerry, 15.10.2007, 18:13 (DOSX)
  • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Rugxulo, 15.10.2007, 20:00
    • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Jerry, 15.10.2007, 23:45
      • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Rugxulo, 16.10.2007, 00:22
        • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - RayeR, 16.10.2007, 12:58
          • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Rugxulo, 17.10.2007, 01:04
            • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Steve, 17.10.2007, 01:13
              • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Rugxulo, 17.10.2007, 01:39
                • decTop - lucho, 17.10.2007, 08:11
            • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - RayeR, 17.10.2007, 10:44
          • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - DOS386, 24.10.2007, 02:27
      • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - Japheth, 16.10.2007, 08:10
  • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - DOS386, 16.10.2007, 02:26
  • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - flo, 17.10.2007, 10:44
  • Recommendations for Porting a 16 bit DOS Application - llm, 17.04.2017, 07:06