a:\basrun.exe

a:\basrun.exe

[Jim Hartley]

I have been trying to run an old game under dosemu. I am using the 
"dosemu -home" option, then changing to a directory under my home 
directory that has the game in it (the game is Interstellar Space 
Command). The game is in compiled BASIC (yes, it's that old), and there 
is a copy of basrun.exe in the same directory (in fact, the directory 
was copied verbatim from a DOS/Win machine).

When I used to to run this under DOS, or in a DOSprompt under Win95/98, 
everything worked fine. However when I try to run it under 
dosemu/freedos, it keeps asking for "a:\basrun.exe", and won't accept 
the copy of basrun.exe on the hard disk. I am using dosemu 1.0.2.0 and 
freedos 1.1.24c.

Anyone heard of anything like this? Any helpful suggestions? (Suggesting 
MS-DOS would probably not be helpful, I don't think I have it, I always 
used IBM PC-DOS before I switched to Linux).

Jim Hartley

Re: a:\basrun.exe

[Bart Oldeman]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jim Hartley wrote:

> When I used to to run this under DOS, or in a DOSprompt under Win95/98, 
> everything worked fine. However when I try to run it under 
> dosemu/freedos, it keeps asking for "a:\basrun.exe", and won't accept 
> the copy of basrun.exe on the hard disk. I am using dosemu 1.0.2.0 and 
> freedos 1.1.24c.

You could try an updated freedos - www.dosemu.org has pointers.

> Anyone heard of anything like this? Any helpful suggestions? (Suggesting 
> MS-DOS would probably not be helpful, I don't think I have it, I always 
> used IBM PC-DOS before I switched to Linux).

You could also use IBM PC-DOS in dosemu - just copy the ibmbio.*,
ibmdos.*, command.com from IBM to the directory where FreeDOS's
kernel.sys is now, and delete kernel.sys.

Bart