Obtaining DOSBOX: Was Re: gcc questions

[Justin Zygmont]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:

> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Turns out Borland made Turbo C (a great compiler and IDE for its day)
>> available for free download from
>> <http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20841,00.html>. And, I was
>> curious, since there's a lot of nostalgia value for me, and I found that it
>> works wonderfully in DOSBox, the i386/DOS emulator -- which is available
>> from Fedora Extras. (So you could even use it on PPC.)
>
> [snip]
>
> Hmm. I tried using GNOME to install it, and couldn't find it. I
> then did a "# yum install dosbox" and yum couldn't find it. I used
> Google, and found a hit at sourceforge, but got an SQL error.
>
> When was it added (I run FC2) and how can I pull a version?
> I used dosemu and freedos for a while, but they stopped working
> for me after a prelink run.

dosemu works quite well, just make sure you use the most recent version, 
or from CVS.  dosbox combined Bochs, a CPU emulator with dosemu which is 
unnecessary if you already use and x86 CPU, and just makes it slower.  It 
has however, made dos become platform independant:)