Console Mode, DOS Emulator on OLPC

[elw at stderr.org]

I suppose that I have effectively opened my mouth and inserted foot, so 
perhaps I should volunteer to start a bit of work in this direction.

Any other volunteers?  We'll work something out.  ;-)

--elijah


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jim Gettys wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:35:46 -0400
> From: Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
> To: elw at stderr.org
> Cc: Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org>, devel at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: Console Mode, DOS Emulator on OLPC
> 
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:57 -0500, elw at stderr.org wrote:
>>
>>> Subject: Re: Console Mode, DOS Emulator on OLPC
>>>
>>> OLPC does not support VGA/EGA/CGA graphics, so the display code for all
>>> those old programs will not work.
>>
>>
>> IIRC xdosemu provides vga support within an X window.
>>
>> I sympathize with folks who want to run ancient dos educational apps on
>> the OLPC - it'd be great if xdosemu were available as an activity-like
>> bundle for folks who need it.
>
> Seems like a good idea?  Any volunteers?  It isn't high enough on the
> priority list that we'll get to it anytime very soon.  Would be a good
> way for someone to learn how to "sugarize" a simple application.
>                                  - Jim
>
>>
>> [Same goes for C64 emulators... there are still folks in chemistry and
>> biology and physics who have useful code that runs on the Commodore
>> machines.. even at Big 10 universities.  ;)]
>>
>>   --e
>>
>>
>>>> 1. There are large number of DOS education application suitable for teacher and students.
>>>> 2. Most DOS applications are designed for slow PC below 100 MHz.
>>>> 3. There are many abandonware/freely available 20 years old DOS applications/tools on the Internet, such as TurboC, TurboPascal, TurboBasic etc.
>>
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