RE: Re: [BLACKBOX] The future of BlackBox

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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:41:00 +0000

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Hi Aubrey,

>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: Aubrey.McIntosh{([at]})nowhere.xy
>> To: Bernhard Treutwein <bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy
>> Date: July 31, 2013 at 9:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] The future of BlackBox
>>
>> There is a virtual machine, virtualbox, that runs on linux and windows
>> systems. I wonder about making a version of Blackbox that runs on that
>> bare machine. It would need a network driver, a video driver, a disk
>> driver, and a file system. Then it would be portable across machines and
>> into the future.
>>

you would need an extended subset of the Win-32 stuff.

Although this might be feasible, I don’t know if it is worth the effort.

I think it might be worthwhile to check one of the very small Linux distros
(e.g. TinyCore http://tinycorelinux.net/) together with Wine and use it
without a Linux Window Manager. I know it works and runs, but I could not
find a replacement for MS-Windows explorer in its second function: the shell
The shell code of Wine still has many deficits, currently only 83% is
implemented (see http://wiki.winehq.org/DLLStatus). But I did not (yet)
check Wine 1.6, which came out recently ...

regards

--
  Bernhard
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