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[Sebatianos]

My sentiment exactly. Got Freedos with the drivers for my computer, but never could really get anything working. Never could really install it at all!

[fettoswe]

Originally Posted by Sebatianos

My sentiment exactly. Got Freedos with the drivers for my computer, but never could really get anything working. Never could really install it at all!

Same for me no games works for me under freedos I only us it then I flash bios e.t.c. Native dos in Vmware works much better or dosbox.

[fender178]

With freedos I couldnt even get the sound to work so I said enough of this. Dosbox is heck of alot better than freedos.

[fettoswe]

It would be nice to test freedos then it works 100% on my computer with sound and everything.

[Miles]

I'd go with MS-DOS 6.22 since it's mainly compatible with all old DOS games, except the type you have to use with SETVER. Although I am surprised no one mentioned DR-DOS.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Miles

.... Although I am surprised no one mentioned DR-DOS.

It will work fine with serious applics (read:non-gaming software).
Same problem as with Freedos, almost 100% MSDos compatible, but that 'almost' gives troubles with the more troublesome games.

Oh my, reminds me, still haven't tested the DOS32A mem extender on it.
Hmmmm, will probably never do, not much reasons to do so, is it?

[Japo]

Originally Posted by dosraider

It will work fine with serious applics (read:non-gaming software).

More like, "it will work fine with console apps without sound", be they games or not (of course most are). :P And for that, you can rely as well on running it in Windows 32 bits (ntvdm.exe) 100% of the times... Actually ANY solution will do for a console app without sound--using a slowdown utility at most, if really necessary (won't be for most "serious" apps).

[dipo]

Originally Posted by fender178

With freedos I couldnt even get the sound to work so I said enough of this. Dosbox is heck of alot better than freedos.

Better? Them are two complete different things. The one is an emulator, the other one is an operating system.

For a newish PC user DOSBox is more easy to setup then FreeDOS.

Originally Posted by fettoswe

It would be nice to test freedos then it works 100% on my computer with sound and everything.

I am using FreeDOS and I have dualboot with 6.22, 7.1, 8.0 and FreeDOS. Never found any application running not in FreeDOS, but in MS-DOS.

After a lot fiddling with DOS now my real DOS with orignal SB card works better for me then DOSBox.

[tikbalang]

i used msdos 6.22 for a long time but my pick is msdos 7.1 from win9x (except early version of win95) because of its fat32 and xms 3.0 support. fat32 allows drive partitions greater than 2gb and xms3 allows the usage of more than 64mb installed ram.

i don't see how msdos 7.10 became incompatible with DOS games, when in fact, there were games for win9x that were actually dos games.

freedos has excellent dos utilities but the kernel is still a bit dodgy for games.

[red_avatar]

Just wondering but why would you want more than 64MB memory in DOS? No software was even made to use that much and if anything, certain games test for memory and if it's more than 32MB, these games tend to flip out and say you don't have enough.