On 12/26/14, Darryl Perry pondered and said...
 
 DP> I don't know how many people out there have a Raspberry Pi, but I
 DP> thought I'd put this out there.  

Just got one for Christmas :-)

 DP> I run Mystic BBS on my Raspberry Pi, and until now, I could not run dos
 DP> doors.  Most Sysops who run linux have to run dosemu to emulate dos.  But
 DP> dosemu has not been ported to run on the RPi yet.  So, dosemu is not an
 DP> option for RPi.

I've been running Mystic under Windows and have not attempted Linux (yet) but
wanted to give it a go with the Pi, so this is all helpful info thanks..

 DP> But, I  have discovered a new app called 8986tiny that is a dos emulator
 DP> that runs freedos.... on the Raspberry Pi!
 DP> If you run raspbian, you can simply do a 'apt-get install 8086tiny',
 DP> then run it from anywhere as '8086tiny'
 DP> I thought you would like to know.  Enjoy!

Cool, thanks for sharing Darryl. I may yet pick your brains a bit (if that's
ok) as I try and set up a test system on the Pi.

Cheers, Paul


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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