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  • Re: Freedos Vs Ms-Dos

    From MIKE POWELL@21:1/175 to PAULIE420 on Wed Jul 17 09:59:00 2024
    ³ 86Box is sick - and I'm still thankful that you turned me onto it.
    ÀÄ[P=>H]

    IIRC, that is one I heard about a few years ago and was really interested
    in except the author (at the time) had no interest in adding serial port support -- so no BBSing.

    Otherwise, I heard nothing but good things about it.

    Mike

    ##Mmr 2.61á. !link P 7-16-24 20:27
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  • From MIKE POWELL@21:1/175 to HOLLOWONE on Sun May 4 08:42:00 2025
    I run my DOS inside 86box emulator. If you really want to turn your
    modern PC into a legacy one, with exact setup (CPU,GPU, Motherboard,
    you name it).. then I find no other way than 86box.net today.

    Isn't 86box the one that is really great for just about everything except serial port emulation (i.e. for a modem)? Seems like I looked into that
    one once, a few years back, and the lead dev was a lot more interested in
    just about everything but modems.

    mike

    ##Mmr 2.61á. !link JA 5-03-25 22:47
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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to MIKE POWELL on Sun May 4 16:31:47 2025

    Isn't 86box the one that is really great for just about everything except serial port emulation (i.e. for a modem)? Seems like I looked into that one once, a few years back, and the lead dev was a lot more interested in just about everything but modems.


    They've added modem emulation in one of the previous versions. I think from 4.1 onward. You can set it as another network card, just chose Hayes modem.

    And then it will be translating IP numbers to numbers when you use Hayes commands.

    I started using telix to connect to boards since this feature is enabled.
    in parallel to MTCP's telnet app.

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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