Over the years I too tried DOSBox, but every time came away 
disappointed. Good for games, perhaps, no good for PDOX.

Cheers!

B

On 23/11/2023 4:13 am, 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