X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:21:55 +0100 From: Mateusz Viste User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Develop djgpp program using Windows 7 ? References: <3c287821-c0dd-4533-b513-247f89da252f AT googlegroups DOT com> In-Reply-To: <3c287821-c0dd-4533-b513-247f89da252f@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Message-ID: <54db1f33$0$3160$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Feb 2015 10:21:55 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.225.72.113 X-Trace: 1423646515 news-4.free.fr 3160 82.225.72.113:50607 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT proxad DOT net Bytes: 1979 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 10/02/2015 23:19, Georg Potthast wrote: > I have been using a Windows XP system up to now to develop djgpp programs. To be able to run e.g. the latest virus scanner on my PC I need to move to Windows 7 or later. I guess my Windows XP system is already the member of several bot networks. > What is the recommended environment to develop djgpp programs then? Should I use a Virtual PC, Qemu or else? Or should I setup a Linux system instead? > Booting DOS is too slow for me since I then have to run a long file name driver which makes it much slower than a command window on Windows XP. I still have a (virtual) machine with Windows XP, and the AVG antivirus runs happily on it, and keeps getting daily updates. But maybe would it be a good time to switch to Linux + DOSEMU ? ;) (that's what I use for DJGPP developments) Mateusz