Research VPIC.SYS

[eco]

why replace VPIC.SYS?

* DOS support is critical for eComStation customers (we have discussed this at DWS2008)

todo:

* step 1: try to compile it

Terms: 7 days (August 2008, the 4-th week)

[eco]

e-co:

Pasha talks: 20080918

I see troubles: * the driver knows about 16 irqs only * it queries kernel devhelpers, not ACPI.PSD

[eco]

The idea to rewrite VPIC.SYS appeared during DWS2008 (May 2008)

[eco]

source: http://news.ecomstation.nl/article.php?id=23097&group=ecomstation.support.misc#23097

e-co:

eComStation is the best operating system to run DOS/Win-OS/2 applications. To improve the support of DOS in eComStation it's necessary improve VPIC.SYS driver.

Peter Brown:

I disagree.

DOSBox is a much better DOS for most of my DOS purposes - mainly a few old games *With* a choice of virtual soundcard.

I'm so impressed with it that I have not installed DOS/Win16 support in my current eCS2.0RC5 installation. Shame the eCS Installer mucks up and puts a few DOS lines in the config.sys and also partly populates the unneeded \os2\mdos directory. Nothing that cannot be deleted though :-)

No need of a vpic.sys driver either :-)

Maybe eCS should look at "adopting" DOSBox as an alternative to the mute DOS/Win16 support currently offered.