DOS Emulator

[David Fletcher]

At 05:11 18/04/2007, you wrote:

>Try
>
>DOSBox
><http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1>http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

I've run an old DOS CAD program called Generic CADD under DOSBox on a 
Fedora machine. It's so old it expects to have the mouse plugged into 
a serial port, so I couldn't use it at all for years. It works just 
fine under DOSBox, if I ever need to open any old drawings.

The thing you have to be aware of with DOSBox is that when you run 
software like Generic CADD, it grabs hold of the mouse cursor and 
excludes it from the rest of the desktop. So you need to know the 
magic button to press to make it let go. It's something like Alt-F10.

Need to read the documentation, too, to work out how to get it to 
mount a Linux directory as the c:\ DOS drive, but it does work.

Dave F



>Jason