I updated my glib2 to the same version that works great on OS X, and it feels like the Win32 binaries are just slower than ever. Â Now I am running this under VMWare, so maybe that is why it is so slow.
Can someone give this a shot?
Any and all feedback would be nice.
Oh I included the Doom 1.1 in there run it like this:
qemu-system-i386 -L pc-bios -m 16 -hda doom11.img -soundhw sb16,adlib
And you should be able to run doom with sound.
I was kind of a slacker on this one, but here we go, all built for OS X. For anyone new, you’ll want 7za to extract the 7zip archive.
I’ve included the glib2 that I’m using that performs pretty well with Qemu, along with pixman & libintl.
And that should get you going.
I’ve tested it with MS-DOS & Doom 1.1 along with QuakeWorld for MS-DOS. Â Both work fine. Â The other things I have tested that don’t work is OS/2 1.21 and Novell Netware 3.12. Â Although -M isapc is working again, Netware still hangs when mounting any volumes.
QWDos running
I may try to see if I can get a Win32 build going with the same version of glib2 (2.23.6) that works fine on OS X.
Well apparently Amazon will even let you have a free ‘micro’ instance on their EC2 cloud for free! Â From this blog post, you can see how easy it is to setup a Windows Server 2008 instance, download & install Synchronet.
I would imagine that with the 32bit version of Windows Server, you should be able to even run NTVDM stuff (meaning old MS-DOS Doors).
Although I’m going to keep mine running on the old Qemu on top of a Linux VPS. Â But this may be easier for some of you who wanted to run one, to get things going.
Microsoft OS/2 1.21
So close, and yet so far away. Â I’m using a ‘restore’ image to do this.. Basically I have an existing OS/2 1.21 machine that I made a backup of, using MS-DOS & OS/2. Â I restore the MS-DOS backup with an altered config.sys that dumps me to a cmd.exe prompt with no Presentation Manager. Â Then I restore the OS/2 image onto itself and then reboot into OS/2. Â I know it works since I’ve used this to setup OS/2 onto VirtualBOX & a physical PC before. Â Qemu boots half way through but the letter ‘o’ is corrupted for some reason, and the keyboard doesn’t respond once it’s booted. Â But the cursor blinks away like it is waiting for you to type anything. Â It is worth noting that OS/2 1.x doesn’t know what IDE CD-ROM’s are, and you have to remove the physical drive to boot this up.
Oh well it is a shame.
I’ll do a release version later, but for those who want it, the i386 & PowerPC emulators.
On the i386 side, I did notice that with an older glib2 installed in /usr/local/lib that Qemu was slow, buggy and all around crappy. Â But with a newer lib I’d recently built on my MacPro, it works fine, along with SOUND (tested with DOOM). Â So yeah test with the i386 version first, I included the demo DOOM v1.1, and see how that works for you. Â I’ve included the libintl & pixman libraries, along with a tar of my glib2 install. Â Backup & replace as necessary.
It runs fine on my laptop, which up until now hasn’t run Qemu.
Qemu on OS X 10.8.3
(note this is a guest post from Tenox)
So that QNX 2.21 from the previously established purchase fund has arrived today. As an added bonus, I expected 4 x 5.25″ disks, but the media turned to be a single 3.5″ floppy disk. So it’s better suitable for more modern 286 machines and emulators.
I have imaged the floppy to a raw disk dump and booted in VMware Workstation for verification.
The floppy disk image was sent to those who contributed in the previous post.
Manuals are always available here.
Update: the floppy disk image is here…
A friend (Hi Frank!) gave me this link to a project page which has all kinds of X software built for MS-DOS.
For the 2 or 3 people in the world still running MS-DOS.
(note this is a guest post from Tenox)
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So QNX 2.21 popped up on eBay. I’m organizing a collection so that everyone interested in getting a copy can chip in. I have previously covered QNX 2.1 that I purchased on my own and was getting a lot of requests for the install disk images. So this time instead of pissing people off I decided to let everyone participate! 🙂
Please comment with the amount you can chip in and once say 1/2 will be covered I will purchase it.
Update:
I have purchased the item for $500 via best offer. This is much more reasonable. Of course still looking for people to chip in for the purchase.
Please send your contributions to: [email protected] selecting for “friends and family” instead of goods or services. Thanks.
Blast from 2002
So yeah, I got 10.2 to install.  Well from my standpoint as a user it worked ok, but it is SLOW.. Then again my MacPro is a tad old, it is a 2006 model with 2 x 2 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors…. I hope to upgrade to the new MacPro when it finally launches later this year.
So yeah, On my computer this runs slower than my first 333Mhz iMac that I ran OS X on. Â Needless to say a 450Mhz G4 blows this thing away, although I don’t think that is a fair comparison.
Even with all the screwed up colours, it is kind of neat going back into time to see where OS X, was with AIM & Internet Explorer. Â How things changed with Apple carving out their own niche territory in both regards.
All in all it was an interesting time back then, with Apple making the leap from the dated OS 9, to the NeXT inspired OS X. Â And as they say the rest is history.