
ANNOUNCEMENT
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The DOSEMU team is proud to announce DOSEMU 0.66.6, the PC Emulator for
x86 based *nix. Please remember to consider this as ALPHA software.


WHAT IS DOSEMU?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DOSEMU is a PC Emulator application that allows Linux to run a DOS
operating system in a virtual x86 machine. This allows you to run
many DOS applications. These are capabilities of DOSEMU worth noting:

  - Color text and full keyboard emulation (via hotkeys) via terminal.
  - Built-in X-Windows support, includes IBM character set font!
  - Graphics capability at the console with most compatible video cards.
  - Graphics emulation in X for 256 color modes.
    (X-server may be in true color mode)
  - DPMI support
  - able to run (handicapped) Windows-3.1 either on console or in X.
    (you need the os2win31.zip package, and licenses for both,
    Windows-3.1 and OS/2. see doc/README.Windows)
  - Runs Borland BCC.EXE/TCC.EXE version 3.x command line compilers!
  - Runs Borlandc C++ 3.x IDE
  - Runs several 32-bit DPMI-compilant video games, including DOS/4GW,
     at the Linux console.
  - NetBSD version of DOSEMU appreciating a growing success,
     contact jtk@atria.com.
  - CDROM support.
  - Sound support (including emulated sound DMA)
  - NetWare and other network connectivity via builtin IPX and pktdrvr
     support.



REQUIREMENTS
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  - Linux >= 2.0.28 (with IPC support, IPX support optional)
  - mtools-3.6 (for creating hdimages and DEXEs)

When compiling dosemu yourself:
  - GCC 2.7.2+ and LIBC 5.2.18+ are recommended for best results.
  - Plenty of swap, since DOSEMU requires between 12 and 25 megabytes
     of total memory to compile, depending on configuration.



CREDITS
~~~~~~~
This release could not have gotten out the door without the work of
the our relentless development team and friends, currently consisting
of at least:

  Jon Tombs            	Aaron			Karl Kiniger
  Daniel R. Barrlow	Christoph Niemann	Theodore T'so
  Derek Fawcus		Linus Torvalds		Alan Cox
  Alessandro Rubini	Corey Sweeney		James Maclean
  Hans Lermen		Andrew.Tridgell		Jochen Hein
  Jason E Gorden	Lam Lai Yin, Savio	Alistair MacDonald
  Lawrence K Mao	Ronnie			Mark Rejhon
  Michael E. Deisher	Larry Stephan		Lutz Molgedey
  Amit Margalt 		Marty Leisner 		Dong Liu
  Scott Buchholz 	Tim Van der Linden 	John Davis
  Kang-Jin Lee 		Matthew Grant 		David Hansen
  John Kohl 		Kevin P Lawton 		Rod May
  Wayne P Meissner 	Vinod G Kulkarni 	Andries
  David Etherton 	Alberto Vignani		Eric W. Biederman
  Erik Mouw		Arjan Filius		Uwe Bonnes
  Rainer Zimmermann	Steffen Winterfeld	David Brauman
  Rutger Nijlunsing

  and others too important to mention.


WHERE TO GET IT:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The DOSEMU PC Emulator can be downloaded from the following FTP sites:

  tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/...
  ftp.suse.com:/pub/dosemu/...
                                     .../dosemu-0.66.6-bin.tgz
                                     .../dosemu-0.66.6.tgz

The binary distribution is statically linked against libc-5.4.23 and libX*
from XFree-3.3. It should run on all current Linux distributions.


HELPING US
~~~~~~~~~~
Many thanks to all who have helped with this release, by sending bug
reports, patches, comments and/or ideas for DOSEMU! Our apologies for
not having answered every letter, and possibly missing some important
information. If you know something you think we should know, contact
us, PLEASE! We can be reached at:

"The DOSEMU team" <linux-msdos@vger.rutgers.edu>
http://www.suse.com/~dosemu/
