DOS

Posted February 8th, 2007 by Colin N Garrett

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I have recently converted from a PC to an iMac G5. I am trying to convince my wife that an iBook would be good for her. She uses an old DOS program called Pedigree for family history archives, family trees etc and is reluctant to convert to a Windows program let alone a Mac. Is there any way a DOS program can be made to run on a Mac ? I shall be most grateful for any help.

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Re: DOS

On October 20th, 2007 ramen noodle says:

Yes i have been using DosBox for years to play old dos games and it works very well. New versions are very good and let's you run almost every old dos application.
ramen noodles

Re: DOS

On June 2nd, 2007 darksun93 says:

I recently got myself a MacBook, but until now I've been using it
almost exclusively under Windows. Shame, I know. The reason is that for
my daily work I depend on a number of DOS statistics programs that have
no equivalents in (let alone ports to) the UNIX world.

I know that there are ways of running DOS programs in a virtual machine
(e.g. QEMU/Q + FreeDOS or Parallels + Windows), but the problem with
this is that I want to call the DOS programs from an R
(r-project.org) script, point them to some automatically generated
input files and parse their output files. I think this should be
possible with DOSbox (which uses Mac OS's file system), but DOSbox's
emulation is way too slow for what I want to do. Darwine and Crossover
Mac won't run DOS programs at all.

So my question is: is there any option I might have overlooked? For
example, is it possible to set up a combination of FreeDOS and QEMU in
such a way that a) Mac OS can write to some place where a program
running under FreeDOS in QEMU can read it, and vice versa, and b) I can
run programs in FreeDOS from a script in Mac OS?

Or maybe there is a port of DOSEMU to Mac OS that I haven't found?

If you have any idea that might help me, please let me know. I'm so, so
sick of Windows.

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