Not Linux, Not Windows, But...

I want to run DOS and ML on this thing. Will I have to build this environment myself? I'm not a Linux fan, and not interested in building yet another Windows machine-let!

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Former Member over 13 years ago

You could download FreeDOS source and build it yourself, piece-by-piece, for the ARM arch.

http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=5109
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I am not sure getting FreeDOS would work, or even if it worked if it would be useful.
It doesnt appear that FreeDOS has been ported to ARM architecture yet - I think because it doesnt have a hardware extraction layer it assumes it is running on x86, so porting to another CPU architecture is very hard.
Even if you could get FreeDOS running on your pi, very few applications (or old games) would work as they would need recompiling to run run on ARM architecture.

A better solution would be to run DOSbox on linux and run your old software that way.

What I really want though is BBC emulator running so I can say to my kids - look this is what I had when I was young
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ricnev over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

There is a story going round that one of the people involved in the Raspberry Pi Foundation is keen to see RISC OS ported to RasPi because in his youth he wanted a Risc PC, but couldn’t afford one. If RISC OS does become a viable OS on a RasPi, there are BBC B emulators which will run on it. I think there are also some BBC B emulators for Linux - perhaps these'll work with the distros RasPi will be using.
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ricnev over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

There is a story going round that one of the people involved in the Raspberry Pi Foundation is keen to see RISC OS ported to RasPi because in his youth he wanted a Risc PC, but couldn’t afford one. If RISC OS does become a viable OS on a RasPi, there are BBC B emulators which will run on it. I think there are also some BBC B emulators for Linux - perhaps these'll work with the distros RasPi will be using.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to ricnev

I really wanted an archimedes when it came out. I wonder if RISC OS is ported if I will finally be able to play zarch.

just thinking about this - as its based on an ARM chip, perhaps somebody could get android running on it
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Cylon over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

i suggest you start here.http://www.riscos.org.uk/

There is a huge ammount of work already to port it to PI.

Wont be long now.
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