Masters of Orion II

Xrati · #1 August 8th, 2009, 10:49 AM

You mean to tell me that Micro$oft

can't come up with an emulation program to run within Win 7, to get old games running.

Sooooooooo DosBox will be the only method to run older programs... I wish the people over at DosBox could come up with an OS, I'd buy it!

Arralen · #2 August 9th, 2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Xrati

I wish the people over at DosBox could come up with an OS, I'd buy it!

Not the same people, but they're working together with the WINE developers, and there might be some connections to DOSBox (but I haven't checked..):

ReactOS - a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.

If you're looking for a "real" DOS, you might want to check out :
FreeDOS - a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project.