Subject: | Re: Its getting harder
| Date: | Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:18:31 +0000
| From: | Michael Kennedy <Info@KennedySoftware.ie>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-dos
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Dang, sorry, where I typed VBox, I meant VDOS!!!
- Mike
On 22/11/2023 18:13, Michael Kennedy wrote:
> Seasons Greetings, Bernie.
>
> On 17/11/2023 02:10, Bernie van't Hof wrote:
>> Hi ya all! I am back, briefly!
>>
>> Am the proud owner of a beaut M2Pro mac.
>>
>> But of course the only problem is virtualbox doesn't work on apple
>> silicon, neither do the other virtualisers (for old windows os's).
>>
>> Oh no! Is this the end of PDOXDOS for me?
>>
>> Trying UTM (based on QEMU). All seems to be running fine. So far.
>
> Wow! (on MAC, UTM/QEMU, etc).
>
> VirtualBox, in general, is excellent - pity it's not built for the MAC,
> though.
>
> FWIW.....
>
> Some years back, I tried PDox under DOSBOX. AFAIR, it worked OK-ish, at
> a basic level, but there were nasty, deep, bugs in the emulation, that I
> tried very hard to unravel and fix, and a few of us wasted man-weeks on
> testing and debugging, and gave up, advising clients to NOT use DOSBOX.
>
> Then VBox, also AFAIR, was/is based on DOSBOX, and looked better, but
> development and support were 'moving targets' a few years ago, and I was
> afraid to re-run the PDox stress-tests on it, and to recommend it.
>
> I don't recall ever trying QEMU...
>
> - Mike
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