Re: [Freedos-user] Tried test build T2603

[Eric A. <e....@jp...>]

Hoi Sijmen,

> Hi all,
> 
> Thought I'd share my experience trying T2603:
> 
> First in qemu-system-i386 running on a Raspberry Pi 400 (so, software
> emulation):
> 
>   - Whole experience was sluggish, right from the start...

there is a possibilty that a Raspberry Pi build of dosemu2
will be made available, unless you want to build yourself:

https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/2277

As dosemu2 is optimized for running DOS, it should have
better performance and also better compatibility of the
simulated DOS compatible hardware compared to generic
virtual computers such as QEMU.

> Then, on a Dell Inspiron 510m laptop:
> 
>   - Installation went super smooth

>   - FDIMPLES still very slow, arrowing from one option to the next would
>     take a second or too. But not unusuable, and in the end I got my
>     packages installed.

It also was very slow on a real netbook for me. There
probably should be more caching and less file parsing.

>   - Then installed Windows 3.11. Had to manually copy the lines from
>     AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, and set PageOverCommit=1 because the
>     machine has 1G of memory (*1). But even after that starting Windows
>     would crash/reboot the machine.

Try using Windows in "safe mode" (in Windows-not-for-workgroups:
Use standard mode instead of 386 enhanced mode). For the normal
386 mode of WfW 3.11, you will need carefully tuned config and
drivers (SHARE, preferably MS HIMEM and/or MS EMM386 in spite of
those being ancient) and our newest kernel. Same for 386enh mode
of Windows 3.0 and 3.1, but the new kernel SHOULD support it now.

>   - No other issues! Perfectly usable. SUDO worked too ;-)

Great :-D

Eric