Re: Re[2]: [stella] Poll: What is everybody working on?

[Glenn Saunders <mos6507@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:17 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
> If you're mainly interested in game logic type stuff, go spend $20 on a
> 486 machine, and dedicate it to running PCAE in DOS.  You'd have to
> transfer your .bins between 2 machines, but it's a step up from where
> you are now.

I'll think about it since my old PII 350 motherboard is sitting unused in 
my closet now.  I could bring that back to life purely as a 2600 dev box 
running TextPad and the rest but do all my general purpose computing on my 
other box.

I wish there were a way to run DOS in an emulation within XP that is 
actually 100% compatible.  I don't see why it can't just abstract away the 
BIOS, the IRQs, and the rest of the hardware just as if it were treating 
the environment as if it were a completely foreign system (like a PPC MAC 
or something).  So you let DOS _THINK_ it's hitting the hardware when it's 
just hitting virtual hardware.