Re: [RFC] dosemu config generator

Bart Oldeman
2003-07-12T19:44:07Z

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote:

> Here is my script to generate a dosemu config.
>
> Obviously it needs a lot of work to be really flexible and useful (I
> would like to tie it in with the app database) but I just wanted
> opinions on it. :)
>
> http://www.icequake.net/cgi2/dosemuconf.pl

Looks nice! Just a few comments -- it may be better to look
forwards towards 1.2.0 rather than back to 1.0.2.

emubat is no longer there. It was never really reliable and there are
other methods to use an alternative to autoexec.bat.

hogthreshold -- yes I know it's a little confusing but "0" means "full
tilt", 1 is "be nice" and higher then means "less nice". Think of "0" as
"infinity" here. Also the values can be higher than 15.

There are a few settings that don't apply to xdosemu (such as rawkeyboard,
mouse settings, native speaker).

keybint is obsolete, gone, just like "videoportaccess" (graphics does
that).

SECURITY: all this stuff is obsolete too. Use sudo.

Sound: we have sb16 support now (in 1.1.5.2).

rdtsc may be overridden by .dosemurc.

If you want to specify different hdimages to be used for restricted
access, do that here. If this is empty, the hdimages from
"hdimage" will be used for all users. (FIXME is that right?)
-- also gone. the idea was that a long time ago DOSEMU could only run
suid-root, so you could have a class of restricted users in dosemu.users
that were only allowed to execute certain DOS programs. Right now the
non-suid-root DOSEMU is a lot more powerful so this option has become
pointless.

One thing that would be good is to merge this with the tcl/tk
configuration utilities in the setup directory (run ./setup.tk etc
there). The problem is that these tools suffer from severe bitrot now
so any help would be very welcome to get these up and going again.

Bart