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  • Changing DOS version in DOSEMU

    From Lab Rat@VERT to All on Sun Sep 21 19:49:33 2014
    Hi all,

    I've been messing around with trying to either upgrade the stock version of FreeDOS or install MS-DOS 6.22 in DOSEMU. The version of FreeDOS that comes with DOSEMU (installed from repos in Ubuntu) seems rather old so I'd like to either upgrade it or swap it for MS-DOS 6.22 which I have numerous licenses for.

    Has anyone tried this and got it to work?

    Lab Rat


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  • From Kirkman@VERT to Lab Rat on Tue Sep 23 13:30:25 2014
    I've been messing around with trying to either upgrade the stock version of FreeDOS or install MS-DOS 6.22 in DOSEMU. The version of FreeDOS that comes with DOSEMU (installed from repos in Ubuntu) seems rather old so I'd like
    to either upgrade it or swap it for MS-DOS 6.22 which I have numerous licenses for.

    Has anyone tried this and got it to work?

    I messed around with this back in February. I know I'm on dosemu 1.4.0.8 now, but I don't recall what I settled on with FreeDOS. I had one or two stubborn DOS games I couldn't get to run, so I tried changing everything. Not sure that it made any difference, unfortunately.

    Anyway, here are some links I found helpful about upgrading FreeDOS with dosemu:

    "How To Install Freedos Into Linux DOSEMU" http://www.linuxgoodies.com/freedos.html

    Bug report on SourceForge, asking that DOSEMU-FreeDOS be updated to FreeDOS
    1.1 http://sourceforge.net/p/dosemu/feature-requests/63/

    A 'distribution' of FreeDOS for DOSemu, made by one of the guys in the SourceForge thread above. http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/temp/dosemu-freedos/dosemu-freedos.tar.gz

    --Josh

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  • From Lab Rat@VERT to Kirkman on Tue Sep 23 22:57:16 2014
    Re: Re: Changing DOS version in DOSEMU
    By: Kirkman to Lab Rat on Tue Sep 23 2014 13:30:25

    Anyway, here are some links I found helpful about upgrading FreeDOS with dosemu:

    Josh,

    Thanks for that. I'd seen some of those but not all of them, will certainly see what else I can get done.

    Lab Rat


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