dosemu and pentium 4

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 7:50 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> Anyone running DOSEMU on a Pentium 4?
>
> On my machine. /proc/cpuinfo reports "cpu family" as being 15.
> However, I see in the sources that dosemu does not recognize/allow
> such a value. (I went through this a while back and had to put it
> aside for a bit. Now it is back.)
>
> Why run dosemu? To be able to run a command line compiler for a Texas
> Instruments DSP. Seems it identifies itself as
>
> 	dspcl.exe:  MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
>
> Wine will not run OS/2 (or old windows) apps. It is not a windows app
> per se, but I guess TI compiled it as one. Wine reports:
>
> 	err:module:MODULE_Decide_OS2_OldWin Hmm, an error occurred.
> 		Is this binary file broken ?
> 	wine: 'S:\ti640\dspcl.exe' is an OS/2 binary, not supported
>
> I can't see where in wine to tell it to run a specific program as an
> old Windows app (which I think it really is) and not as an OS/2 app.
>
> Until I sort this out, my options are to have either a Windows box, or
> a UnixWare box running merge (which implements a decent dos that will
> run the damned thing). I want to compile on Linux, as nature intended.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome. Getting rid of the TI compiler is not one
> of them.

I'm running dosemu on a P4 (family=15) with no problems.  Foxpro 2.5 runs 
fine.


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