dosemu will not show a prompt or run fasm

percy_vere_uk

Hi

I have emerged dosemu, if I enter $ dosemu this causes dosemu.bin to run (according to the running processes list) but the terminal just freezes.

Entering a dos command gives no response.

The ~/.dosemu folder is empty but I believe this should contain the drive c and d folders and boot log. Is this a configuration problem?

percy

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:27 pm Post subject:

I am l not getting anywhere with this any any help would be appreciated.

percy

rockdw · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 26

I see the same behavior. The process starts, but just hangs.

I was actually able to get it working by using the ~x86 instead of stable. From the looks of it, the stable hasn't been updated in a loooong time.

The current stable is: app-emulation/dosemu-1.4.1_pre20091009, and it does the hang behavior.
The current ~x86 is: app-emulation/dosemu-1.4.1_pre20130107 and that one seems to work.

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 11:53 am Post subject:

rockdw

Thanks for that.

I was getting nowhere over a period of time so I moved to dosbox which seems to work ok .

But I will give 'app-emulation/dosemu-1.4.1_pre20130107' a try and will let you know how I get on.

percy

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:44 am Post subject:

rockdw

rockdw · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 26

glad to hear it. :-)

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:45 pm Post subject:

Hi

I have been trying to use fasm in dosemu and find that it crashes. Everything else I want to run in dosemu seems to work fine.

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:58 pm Post subject:

After further research It appears that vm86 needs to be enabled in the kernel.

And according to 'https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-705463-view-previous.html?sid=b0dc20f9f1b52235c46ef46bce449c24'

it is only available in 32bit or 16 bit system I am using a 64 bit system.

So it looks as though I cannot get fasm to run.

Unless anyone knows differently that is!

percy