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MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 (Announce)

posted by Wengier , 26.11.2014, 05:20

> > > > The latest version of MS-DOS Player, an open-source DOS emulator for
> > 32
> > > and
> > > > 64-bit Windows, was released a few days ago (2014-11-19). It has
> many
> > > > features including emulations for both 80286 and 80386 CPUs as well
> as
> > > > support for LFN API. Unlike DOSBox, it is command-line based, but
> > during
> > > my
> > > > testing I have found that it certainly works better than ReactOS's
> > NTVDM
> > > > for example. Both binary and source code are downloadable from:
> > > >
> > > > http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/msdos/
> > >
> > > Beware it uses MESS License which is GPLv2 incompatible.
> >
> > Where does it say it uses MESS License? The COPYING.txt file inside the
> > "source" directory seems to only mention GNU GPL I think?
>
> the CPU core comes from MESS project.

Interesting that it seems to make no mention of MESS license, even though the word "MAME" (not "MESS") does appear somewhere in the doc..

Complete thread:

• MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - Wengier, 24.11.2014, 18:54 (Announce)
  • MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - roytam, 25.11.2014, 16:36
    • MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - Wengier, 25.11.2014, 18:48
      • MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - roytam, 25.11.2014, 23:48
        • MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - Wengier, 26.11.2014, 05:20
          • MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - roytam, 26.11.2014, 12:25
            • MS-DOS Player 2014-11-19 - Rugxulo, 27.11.2014, 00:31
              • MS-DOS Player 2014-12-06 - Rugxulo, 28.12.2014, 08:36
                • MS-DOS Player 1/15/2015 (i286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 15.01.2015, 06:21
                  • MS-DOS Player 1/28/2015 (i86/286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 01.02.2015, 01:28
                    • MS-DOS Player 1/28/2015 (i86/286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 04.06.2015, 13:38
                      • MS-DOS Player 6/25/2015 (i86/286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 01.07.2015, 08:19
                        • MS-DOS Player 10/17/2015 (i86/i286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 17.10.2015, 01:47
                          • MS-DOS Player 11/7/2015 (i86/i286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 12.11.2015, 00:29
                            • MS-DOS Player 11/7/2015 (i86/i286/i386/i486) - Rugxulo, 19.07.2016, 07:44
                              • MS-DOS Player -- new homepage! - Rugxulo, 08.10.2016, 23:44
                                • MS-DOS Player (2/23/2017) - Rugxulo, 23.02.2017, 16:21
                                  • MS-DOS Player (6/16/2017) - Rugxulo, 18.06.2017, 07:38
                                    • MS-DOS Player (10/26/2017) - Rugxulo, 18.01.2018, 11:33