• DesqView, QEMM, Dosemu

    From Avon@21:1/100 to All on Fri Dec 17 20:00:24 2021
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    Passing this one along.. Deon - can you confirm if this one passed through 3/100 just recently?

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    Hey,

    i am trying to use Desqview with QEMM in Dosemu with Freedos.
    I tried QEMM 9 (97) and QEMM 8 and it does not load correctly. It says it
    needs
    at least a 386 CPU, so it seems QEMM does not recognize the CPU the way
    it should.

    Anyone has experience with this combination? is there maybe a different
    version of QEMM working with Dosemu/Freedos? Or is there a configuration
    option that can make it work?

    furthermore, does dosemu use one cpu core only always? Am i bound to the performance that one cpu core can deliver?

    Or makes using Desqview in this context no sense at all? Better start
    Dosemu 2 times?

    Regards,
    Mindsurfer

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    Hi All,

    Best, Paul.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Fri Dec 17 20:13:10 2021
    Re: DesqView, QEMM, Dosemu
    By: Avon to All on Fri Dec 17 2021 08:00 pm

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    Passing this one along.. Deon - can you confirm if this one passed through 3/100 just recently?

    Yup, I just got it on my BBS - so it looks like it did...

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    when_imported 61BBE60C 9258 Fri Dec 17 12:21:16 2021 AEDT


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to deon on Sat Dec 18 09:22:42 2021
    On 17 Dec 2021 at 08:13p, deon pondered and said...

    Re: DesqView, QEMM, Dosemu
    By: Avon to All on Fri Dec 17 2021 08:00 pm

    AREA:FSX_BBS
    Passing this one along.. Deon - can you confirm if this one passed thro 3/100 just recently?

    Yup, I just got it on my BBS - so it looks like it did...

    SenderNetAddr 21:3/119
    Message-ID <61BBE60C.5521.fsx_bbs@bbs.leenooks.net>
    when_written 615660A0 0078 Fri Oct 1 11:13:04 2021 UTC+2:00 when_imported 61BBE60C 9258 Fri Dec 17 12:21:16 2021 AEDT

    interesting, so do you have a number of days set at your HUB for when messages drop into the BAD bucket? I think mine was set to 60, I just happened to find it and figured I'd forward it back out to the echo.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Sat Dec 18 11:06:02 2021
    Re: Re: DesqView, QEMM, Dosemu
    By: Avon to deon on Sat Dec 18 2021 09:22 am

    Howdy,

    interesting, so do you have a number of days set at your HUB for when messages drop into the BAD bucket? I think mine was set to 60, I
    just happened to find it and figured I'd forward it back out to the echo.

    Yes, I have mine set to 90 days...

    I'm actually thinking it should be something like 7 or so - since this is an "online" hobby now. But its not a big enough problem to set it to that...


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Mindsurfer on Fri Dec 17 15:30:05 2021
    Mindsurfer wrote to ALL <=-

    Hey,

    i am trying to use Desqview with QEMM in Dosemu with Freedos.
    I tried QEMM 9 (97) and QEMM 8 and it does not load correctly. It says
    it needs
    at least a 386 CPU, so it seems QEMM does not recognize the CPU the way
    it should.

    I have never attempted to run QEMM under dosemu. Here are some pointers
    that I think might help, though.

    (1) the last versions of QEMM were also meant to work with Win95 and, to my recollection, were buggy. I cannot remember which version I last used with Desqview, but I am pretty certain the version released in 1997 was one of
    the "and Win95" versions. Might try an earlier version. I have a machine
    with DV still installed but it is not hooked up to anything right now or I would check my versions for you.

    (2) you probably already did this, but be sure your dosemu.conf is
    emulating a 386 or 486.

    (3) this last one is a not good one... QEMM might not be compatable with versions of dosemu and, more imporantly, the linux kernel that are new
    enough to have done away with DPMS (DOS Protected Mode Services)
    compatability. IIRC, that went away with linux 4.x. As an example, I have
    to run my DOS BBS in a VM running a 3.16 kernel and what appears to be a
    2013 version of dosemu. Things it depends on don't work on linux 4+
    machines, or with the newer dosemu release(s).

    Anyone has experience with this combination? is there maybe a different version of QEMM working with Dosemu/Freedos? Or is there a
    configuration option that can make it work?

    Like I said, I have never tried but would be interested to know if you get
    it working.

    furthermore, does dosemu use one cpu core only always? Am i bound to
    the performance that one cpu core can deliver?

    Or makes using Desqview in this context no sense at all? Better start Dosemu 2 times?

    As far as I know, it only uses one cpu. Even if dosemu will, or does, use
    more than one cpu, I somehow doubt QEMM/DV would recognize that.

    As an aside, there was a recent article linked on osnews.com about DV/X. My recollection is that DV/X also depends on QEMM. I read the article a week
    or two ago, but I got the impression that maybe the person who wrote the article was running DV/X (and therefore DOS) in a VM on a linux machine, so they must have gotten it working somehow if I am remember it right.

    You might check osnews.com and look for that DV/X article.



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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Avon on Fri Dec 17 18:11:51 2021
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    Passing this one along.. Deon - can you confirm if this one passed
    through 3/100 just recently?

    I know I saw it on 2o, before you posted this msg - don't know if that helps, but just sayin.



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