On Monday 04 June 2001 12:18, Geoff Bagley wrote:
I have two machines, both Pentiums.
One runs dual boot SuSE 7.1 and Win98. The other just Win98.
I have to keep at least one machine working with W98 because I have three Windows and two DOS applications I wish to keep.
If I had Bochs, would this enable me to run windows and DOS progs on the LINUX box ?
I have never tried emulators before. Any other LINUX newbies running Bochs yet ? Does Bochs compete with vmware etc. ?
Regards
Another Windows/MSDOS emulator you could take a look at is Wine. It works for most of your basic MS based applications. It is quite easy to setup - has a handy graphical interface for configuring - and works quite well most of the time. It tends to fail on high end stuff like games and some custom (non-standard) applications. It's a good idea to download and install the latest version of Wine... I found that the version shipped with SuSE7.1 would crash a lot. the new version available at http://www.winehq.com/ is much more stable. Honestly I like Wine (haven't tried Bochs yet, but I do plan on trying it out soon) much better than VMWare. VMWare starts a virtual machine in a window. This has it's advantages such as in a commercial environment where a robust emulator is critical. In Wine, each application runs like/similar to an X app. Also.... Wine is free for distribution under the terms of it's license... VMWare is quite expensive to purchase. C.