
ANNOUNCEMENT
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The DOSEMU team is proud to announce DOSEMU 1.1.2,
the PC Emulator for x86 based *nix.

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT starting from 1.0.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For the first time in it's history, DOSEMU now deserves it's name because it
distributes together with a specially tailored FreeDos distribution, allowing
it to run out-of-the-box without further (painful) configuration.
This collection is an almost complete replacement for a proprietary XX-DOS
and will run a wide range of DOS applications.

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 the capabilities of DOSEMU that are
worth noting:

  - Color text and full keyboard emulation (via hotkeys) even on terminal.
  - Built-in X-Windows support (includes IBM character set font)
  - Graphics capability at the console (most compatible video cards).
    (requires suid-root)
  - Graphics emulation in X for 256 and 16 color modes.
    (X-server may be in true color mode)
  - DPMI support
  - Runs several 32-bit DPMI-compliant video games (including those based
    on DOS/4GW) at the Linux console (suid-root) and on X (non-suid).
  - integrated (command line) instruction level debugger, various break
    points, single stepping e.t.c.
  - integrated EMS driver
  - integrated packet driver
  - integrated mouse driver
  - CDROM support.
  - ASPI driver support (CD writers, scanners, tapes e.t.c)
    (requires access rigths to /dev/sgX)
  - support for redirected drives (any Linux directory can be 'mounted'
    as DOS drive as ,ong as the DOS support redirection.
  - can even directly boot from a Linux directory containing all DOS stuff.
  - Sound support (including sound DMA, requires suid-root)
  - NetWare and other network connectivity via builtin IPX and pktdrvr
     support.
  - integrated COMMAND.COM (running 32bit to spare valuable DOS memory)
    with lot of DOSEMU support builtin commands.
  - dosemu-freedos packaged binary distribution installs directly into any
    normal user's $HOME and runs 'out-of-the-box' without any further
    configuration (no root rights needed).



REQUIREMENTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~
  - Linux >= 2.0.28 (with IPC support, IPX support optional)
  - any DOS to boot (FreeDos is contained in the binary distribution)

When compiling dosemu yourself:
  - GCC 2.7.2+ and LIBC 5.4.46+ are recommended for best results.
    Though glibc-2.x may be used, statically libc-5.4.46 linked binaries
    still perform better and give much stabler results.
  - binutils > 2.9.1.0.25
  - bison, _not_ yacc

COPYRIGHT
~~~~~~~~~
DOSEMU is set under GPL version 2 (see file COPYING in the distribution).
                        ~~~~~~~~~
The DOS processed (booted) by DOSEMU may have any other policy and is
explicitly allowed to be proprietary.


CREDITS
~~~~~~~
This release could not have gotten out the door without the work of
our relentless development team, friends and contributors, consisting of
at least (sorted by first name):

  Aaron			Adam J. Richter		Alan Cox
  Alberto Vignani	Alessandro Rubini	Alexander R.Adams
  Alexander V. Lukyanov	Alistair MacDonald	Amit Margalt
  Andrew.Tridgell	Andries			Antonio Larrosa
  Arjan Filius		Arne de Bruijn		Bart Oldeman
  Bernd Paysan		Bernd Schueler		Christoph Niemann
  Corey Sweeney		Daniel R. Barrlow	David Brauman
  David Etherton 	David Hansen		David Hindman
  David Hodges		David Pinson		Derek Fawcus
  DJ Delorie		Dong Liu		Egbert Eich
  Eric W. Biederman	Erik Mouw		Florian La Roche
  George K.Bronnikov	Grant R. Guenther	Hans Lermen
  James Maclean		Jason E Gorden		Jochen Hein
  John Davis		John Kohl 		Jon Tombs            
  Josef Pavlik		Julia A. Case		Kang-Jin Lee
  Karl Kiniger		Karl-Max Wagner		Kenneth Corbin
  Kevin P Lawton 	Lam Lai Yin, Savio	Larry Stephan
  Lawrence K Mao	Linus Torvalds		Lutz Molgedey
  Marcus Better		Mark Rejhon		Marty Leisner
  Matthew Grant 	Maxim Ruchko		Michael E. Deisher
  Michael Karcher	Oleg V. Zhirov		Pablo Saratxaga
  Pasi Eronen		Pat Villani		Rainer Zimmermann
  Reinhard Karcher	Rob Clark		Robert de Bath
  Rod May		Ronnie			Rutger Nijlunsing
  Scott Buchholz	Stas Sergeev		Steffen Winterfeld
  Theodore T'so		Tim Van der Linden 	Ulrich Weigand
  Uwe Bonnes		Urban Widmark		Vinod G Kulkarni
  Wayne P Meissner	Wojtek Pilorz

  ... and others too important to mention.

Special thanks for this 1.0.2 release go to Bart Oldeman (DOSEMU team member
and now also maintainer of FD kernel) and Pat Villani (original author of
the code which makes the FD kernel: DosC). Without their special efforts
the current out-of-the-box binary distribution of DOSEMU never would have
been possible. As it is now, it is a really working replacement for XX-DOS.

Of course, all those people involved in the FreeDos development should be
mentioned here too, but before I fail to mention some of them, I better point
you to http://www.freedos.org ;-)


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

  ftp.dosemu.org://dosemu/...
  ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/emulators/dosemu/...
                                     .../README.bindist
                                     .../dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz
                                     .../dosemu-1.0.2-bin.tgz
                                     .../dosemu-1.0.2.tgz

The binary distribution is statically linked against libc-5.4.46 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. We can be reached at:

"The DOSEMU Team" <linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org>
http://www.dosemu.org


- - - -	- - - -				June 2001,
					Hans Lermen <lermen@fgan.de>
					coordinator of "The DOSEMU Team"
