On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:22:10PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >Turns out Borland made Turbo C (a great compiler and IDE for its day) > >available for free download from > ><http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20841,00.html>. And, I was > >curious, since there's a lot of nostalgia value for me, and I found that it > >works wonderfully in DOSBox, the i386/DOS emulator -- which is available > >from Fedora Extras. (So you could even use it on PPC.) > Hmm. I tried using GNOME to install it, and couldn't find it. I > then did a "# yum install dosbox" and yum couldn't find it. I used > Google, and found a hit at sourceforge, but got an SQL error. > When was it added (I run FC2) and how can I pull a version? Ahh; Fedora Extras doesn't go back that far. But, you can probably get the src.rpm from the FE devel tree and rebuild. Or maybe time to update to FC4. :) > I used dosemu and freedos for a while, but they stopped working > for me after a prelink run. DOSBox is incredible -- much nicer than DOSemu, even though, it's doing a whole lot more work. Although, it's also heavier on CPU usage. (No surprise.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
