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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dosemu on FreeBSD?
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:09:23 GMT
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regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net (Philippe Regnauld) writes:

> >I've tried building dosemu on FreeBSD with little success...

> 	Dosemu requires vm86 modes, AND the libvga, none of which are
> 	actually supported or ported to BSD.  Some work is being done
> 	on Dosemu, I know, but I have no idea of the level of development.

You could perhaps replace the svga lib with the upcoming DGA extension
in XFree86(tm).

This make the vm86 stuff the biggest problem.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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