Paul N. Lee wrote:
This might be interesting for you if you would still love to play with FractInt but can't - because your operating system is no longer compatible with DOS and FractInt. Some of us are actually keeping older Windows-98 machines just to be able to run FractInt - if you do not want to do that, here is another possibility:
Found recently is a freeware DOS emulator that enables many operating systems to run DOS applications. FractInt runs fairly well now - albeit a bit slow - under the emulator on XP machines. Try it if you use an operating system which normally would not allow DOS, such as Mac or Windows XP.
The DOS emulator software is here: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
For all questions about the setup of Dosbox, please refer to the Dosbox documentation and the forum.
If you're running Linux, you can also use QEMU to run DOS. I understand it is much faster than Dosbox, but I've not tried any of them. From the Synaptic Package Manager page about QEMU: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator: currently the package supports arm, powerpc, sparc and x86 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs. QEMU has two operating modes: * User mode emulation: QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. * Full system emulation: QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherials. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual PC on a single server. As QEMU requires no host kernel patches to run, it is very safe and easy to use. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community