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From: cs1cl@stoat.shef.ac.uk (C Lamb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dosemu and stuff
Date: 14 May 1997 12:18:44 GMT
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stephen farrell (stephen+usenet@farrell.org) wrote:
: cs1cl@stoat.shef.ac.uk (C Lamb) writes:

: Another possible route is the linux a.out X-windows based doom... (or
: quake, for that matter.)

: > C Lamb (cs1cl@stoat.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
: > : Hi,
: > : My housemate is pestering me to load DOOM2 (sigh) onto my
: > : FreeBSD box 'cos his MSDOG box is a bit slow. I have had
: > : a look at dosemu in 2.2-packages and it says it emulates
: > : a 8086. Is there a package in there that fully utilises
: > : a 3/486 running BSD?
: > 
: > oops - sorry - meant to say pcemu...
: > 
: > : regards
: > 
: > : Chris

many thanks to all who replied. the solution seems to be to use
the linux ver of doom....

many thanks to all who replied


Chris