From: Hans Lermen <lermen@dosemu.org> Subject: Linux PC-Emulator DOSEMU, new stable release: dosemu-0.98.1 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:51:27 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ANNOUNCEMENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The DOSEMU team is proud to announce DOSEMU 0.98.1, the PC Emulator for x86 based *nix. Please remember to consider this as ALPHA software. WHAT IS DOSEMU? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DOSEMU is a PC Emulator application that allows Linux to run a DOS operating system in a virtual x86 machine. This allows you to run many DOS applications. These are the capabilities of DOSEMU that are worth noting: - Color text and full keyboard emulation (via hotkeys) even on terminal. - Built-in X-Windows support (includes IBM character set font) - Graphics capability at the console (most compatible video cards). - Graphics emulation in X for 256 color modes. (X-server may be in true color mode) - DPMI support - able to run (handicapped) Windows-3.1 either on console or in X. (you need the os2win31.zip package, and licenses for both, Windows-3.1 and OS/2. see doc/README.Windows) - Runs Borland BCC.EXE/TCC.EXE version 3.x command line compilers! - Runs Borland C++ 3.x IDE - Runs several 32-bit DPMI-compliant video games (including those based on DOS/4GW) at the Linux console. - CDROM support. - Sound support (including sound DMA) - NetWare and other network connectivity via builtin IPX and pktdrvr support. - runs on any Linux kernel >= 2.0.28 (last tested was 2.1.120) WHAT IS NEW against version 0.66.7? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - simpler and more user friendly configuration (a lot of former dosemu.conf stuff is auto-detected by the new configuration script global.conf, however, people with deeper knowledge of DOSEMU can fine tune this script to fit their special private needs). The new Tcl/Tk based configuration tool makes configuration quicker. - all security problems now can be solved via appropriate configuration and DOSEMU now can run non-suid-root (some features will be unavailable). - support for per user DOSEMU directories. - Improved graphics capability under X (including mouse support, LFB and VESA support, resizing, e.t.c). - Better handling of non-US keyboards, both in X and on terminal, loadable key-tables. More national key-tables. - more supported graphic cards under raw console mode. - more precise timer emulation (using the pentium cycle counter where available) - better sound support - more features for the builtin debugger (dosdebug). - major portions of the code have been rewritten and cleaned up. - glibc adaptation (though, we haven't checked today's changes yet;-). - ... and finally, lots of bugs are fixed and more DOS-applications are running than ever before. REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Linux >= 2.0.28 (with IPC support, IPX support optional) - mtools-3.8 (for creating hdimages and DEXEs) When compiling dosemu yourself: - GCC 2.7.2+ and LIBC 5.4.7+ are recommended for best results. - Plenty of swap, since DOSEMU requires between 12 and 25 megabytes of total memory to compile, depending on configuration. COPYRIGHT ~~~~~~~~~ DOSEMU is set under GPL version 2 (see file COPYING in the distribution). ~~~~~~~~~ The DOS processed (booted) by DOSEMU may have any other policy and is explicitly allowed to be proprietary. CREDITS ~~~~~~~ This release could not have gotten out the door without the work of the our relentless development team and friends, currently consisting of at least: Jon Tombs Aaron Karl Kiniger Daniel R. Barrlow Christoph Niemann Theodore T'so Derek Fawcus Linus Torvalds Alan Cox Alessandro Rubini Corey Sweeney James Maclean Hans Lermen Andrew.Tridgell Jochen Hein Jason E Gorden Lam Lai Yin, Savio Alistair MacDonald Lawrence K Mao Ronnie Mark Rejhon Michael E. Deisher Larry Stephan Lutz Molgedey Amit Margalt Marty Leisner Dong Liu Scott Buchholz Tim Van der Linden John Davis Kang-Jin Lee Matthew Grant David Hansen John Kohl Kevin P Lawton Rod May Wayne P Meissner Vinod G Kulkarni Andries David Etherton Alberto Vignani Eric W. Biederman Erik Mouw Arjan Filius Uwe Bonnes Rainer Zimmermann Steffen Winterfeld David Brauman Rutger Nijlunsing Reinhard Karcher Michael Karcher Marcus Better Arne de Bruijn Kenneth Corbin Pasi Eronen Robert de Bath and others too important to mention. WHERE TO GET IT: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The DOSEMU PC Emulator can be downloaded from the following FTP sites: ftp.dosemu.org:/dosemu/... tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/... .../dosemu-0.98.1-bin.tgz .../dosemu-0.98.1.tgz The binary distribution is statically linked against libc-5.4.46 and libX* from XFree-3.3.2.3. It should run on all current Linux distributions. HELPING US ~~~~~~~~~~ Many thanks to all who have helped with this release, by sending bug reports, patches, comments and/or ideas for DOSEMU! Our apologies for not having answered every letter, and possibly missing some important information. If you know something you think we should know, contact us, PLEASE! We can be reached at: "The DOSEMU-Delopment-team" <linux-msdos@vger.rutgers.edu> http://www.dosemu.org Hans Lermen, co-ordinator/maintainer of DOSEMU, <lermen@dosemu.org> - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNf5+71rUI/eHXJZ5AQFYvAP/W5x9K+aZy0/qCX/pEl1PpHX+sRz17wkR 9e+GptVcjoYj33P8k6why83ISJuaaajtzZVIWJyJIy5BvEMKnUQ0DnnnlVZr+C46 63TMIbAOM1Dkf0saM7fgL5DTNvq5NZZAf8d9vPAvRX/GjS7J9J+GCREzHbgjeZY9 Eiwz7rh7XUI= =ab6q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----