[ale] WIN 3.1 in Dosemu

[tom]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Marvin,  International Martian of Mystery wrote:

> 3.1 (and 3.11) will run fine on DR.DOS- just with 3.1 you get a message
> when windoze loads to the effect that "some things might not work right"
> because it doesn't detect M$DOS.  Which was, and is, of course, pure B$
> and FUD...

As I recall, since I did run Windows 3.x and DR.DOS, there was a period of 
several months when Windows 3.1 would not run on DR.DOS for me. As far as 
I know, at first it wasn't pure B$ and FUD. It took time and money for 
DR.DOS to reverse engineer and recover, which was the point of course.

>
> aaron wrote:
>> Remember, too, that LOSER 3.1 was deliberately designed to
>> be incompatible with anything but M$ DOS, since there was
>> a major and superior competitor at the time -- DR DOS --
>> with some interesting ties to Novel and, later, Caldera.
>>
>> peace
>> aaron
>>
>> On Wednesday 23 May 2007 22:06, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:50 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>>
>>>> That looks normal to me :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Agreed...
>>>
>>>
>>> I got it to work in dosbox but dosbox has its own share of issues.
>>> first when I run a command.com shell I lose my mouse totally.  Even for
>>> X windows.  When I get out of the dos shell I get a garbaged dosbox and
>>> still can not get my mouse back.  I have to do a kill -9 from a virtual
>>> console.
>>>
>>> It seems each emulator has an issue.  I did try Qemu but it does not
>>> support a serial port very well.  It does not pass the signals to the
>>> application and always has DCD high.  Even when my modem is not
>>> connected.  This causes the app to think something is connected and it
>>> refuses to work right.
>>>
>>> Dosbox and Dosemu both have great serial port support.  I can also make
>>> my C: from a directory in home on both too.  This simplifies things.
>>> One of the programs I run is Qmodem Pro.
>>>
>>>
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