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Wine 1.3.12 Brings Initial DOSBox Integration
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostNot sure why this is useful. If I wanted to run a DOS program in DOSBox, I would not run it in Wine in the first place, I would run it in DOSBox
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Posti really wish the wine developers would focus more on directx than on things that can already be accomplished in other software. dosbox does not need to be implemented into wine. i haven't really used wine in about 2 years but from what i noticed, it barely got any better since the last time i used it.
I also noticed that the fact that Wine is getting better very slow is that skilled developers continuously prefer to do easy tasks like
Convert XYZ to ZYX
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Pass 'something that is called XYZ' as 'the same but called ZYX'
In my opinion both above tasks + dosbox is waste of human resources -> time -> money
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostNot sure why this is useful. If I wanted to run a DOS program in DOSBox, I would not run it in Wine in the first place, I would run it in DOSBox
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Originally posted by W3ird_N3rd View PostNot always. There is software for Windows that launches DOS programs or scripts for specific tasks. Almost anyone who has worked with Windows at some point would have occasionally seen a black box flash by. Others don't even try to hide it and just launch a DOS program when it needs to, sometimes even interactive. In Wine, that could have been a problem, but not anymore.
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Well, the idea behind DOSBox integration is that if it works well Wine doesn't have to implement / fix DOS support itself, VM86 support on 64-bit Linux in particular. Although pretty rare, there's still a reasonable amount of Win16 / Win32 applications that will spawn a DOS application at some point, e.g. during installation.
Originally posted by NSLW View PostI also noticed that the fact that Wine is getting better very slow is that skilled developers continuously prefer to do easy tasks like
Convert XYZ to ZYX
or
Pass 'something that is called XYZ' as 'the same but called ZYX'
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Originally posted by Chewi View PostCan someone explain this DOSBox integration in a little more detail? When would DOS not be supported natively? When running on a non-x86/x64 arch? But don't you run Wine through QEMU in this case?
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why does WINE need to do this. I mean Dosbox plus Launcher " at least whats available for the Haiku OS already does this automatically". you just double click the .exe and the program runs if its supported by dos box. Here I show this in the following screen shots.I am sure linux has similar capabilitys.
I haven't used dosbox on linux yet but I plan to migrate most of my office machines to linux/wine to get them off windows. I have had my last bout with flash base viral intrusions into my data.
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