[geeks] Mac Book & a DOS box

[velociraptor]

On 1/13/07, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll be getting, in the near future, on of the nice new Mac Books.
> What I'm trying to figure out is the best way to keep a handfull of
> old dos things running. Most of them (Wordstar 7, some games, etc) are
> well behaved and run in a windows dos box, so Parallels will take care
> of them.
>
> However I have one app, Medley Lisp, that uses an oddball dos
> extender. Does Parallels allow one to run a dos session the way that
> it does windows? Or would one of the other emulators be a better
> choice?

You could try DOSBox.  It is OSS, and works well for many DOS games.
The interface is arcane and has a bit of a learning curve, though.

I've also heard of folks using Windows software (like uTorrent) under
WINE on Intel Macs.

=Nadine=