Re: Disk I/O, BIOS, dosemu, FreeDOS, linux host with Virtual Machines

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:10:25 -0500, Pop Tart <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've come to a point in my study of MASM where I can't work the examples for
disk I/O unless I have Windows 98 or less.

WinXP changed the segment defaults, which certainly affected some
32 bit protected mode programs. For us, anything that has failed
in the XP DOS box has always worked with DOSbox from
http://www.dosbox.com/

Stephen


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