DOS emu and games

Tue Sep 16 22:36:58 EDT 2003

I use galeon to check all my accounts and to pay my bills via the web,
dont need any software to do this, m$ or not.
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:24, Greg Neumann wrote:

> Connecting to the bank? Doubt it. Why should they work w/ something 
> that's free when they can probably get a bribe ...er ... consideration 
> from M$ to push Money? I wonder if M$ tried to trademark "Money" yet. 
> IIRC, Gnucash was very close, if not capable, of importing from Money, 
> and they were working on the bank connection. Sorry, I haven't checked 
> lately. I just wish I could get my wife to use ANY computer based 
> banking programs! ;-)
> Check Gnucash's latest release, anyway.
> -Greg
> 
> JJ Neff wrote:
> 
> >BUT, the big question is, are there any that will import my Money files cleanly
> >(no having to export every single account to a QIF and then trying to fangle
> ><-technical term...  it back into some order).
> >
> >Also will this app connect to my bank and import my Electronic statments and
> >allow me to pay bills from the account.  These thigs are so ingrained in use (I
> >finally got my wife to manage the accounts a little) it is too hard to give up.
> > I even tried to download the electronic bank statement and balance that way
> >but that left me with double entries (not double entry bookkeeping just two
> >entries :-)
> >
> >Anyway as much as I hate it - many banks only support MS for electronic banking
> >and while I will relearn or redo just about anything to switch to a Linux
> >capable product, I can't find a comparable money mgt app.
> >
> >I haven't given up hope that one will be around -- What are some bigname for
> >pay apps?
> >
> >
> >--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Well, there are a few.  There's gnucash, gcompte, gnofin, etc. (search for
> >>finance on freshmeat.net) for the free softwarefolks.  There's a number of
> >>pay
> >>for products out there, too...
> >>
> >>cheers!
> >>
> >>Bob
> >>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Have to be able to use MS Money)
> >>>
> >>>I really wish there a better alternative than gnumoney, because I am in
> >>>the same boat. Anyone know of a viable Linux money package?
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:05, JJ Neff wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I was coming to that conclusion...  I was gonna format a smallish
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>partition
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>~750MB with Fat and use a DOS bootdisk.  Still have to reboot to play but
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>don't
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>have to be in Windows...
> >>>>
> >>>>Oh well. I haven't given up entirely, I want to try DosEMU with a DOS
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>boot
> >>    
> >>
> >>>disk
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>(still having trouble even getting a CDROM loaded in DosEMU) I may be
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>having
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>some problems with Supermount and dosemu and the cd not sure yet...
> >>>>
> >>>>I actually thought I was the only Daggerfall player ever!  :-)  I have
> >>>>Battlespire as well but didn't enjoy it as much.  
> >>>>
> >>>>Come to think of it some of my favorite games EVER were DOS, Tombraider,
> >>>>Daggerfall, BioForge,  but of course that leaves out Half-Life and RTCW
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>(which
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I consider Linux games:-).  
> >>>>
> >>>>I hope to try NWN tonight as I downloaded the Linux Resources and Linux
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>client
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>and Linux updates - but to free up enough space I'll have to format my
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Windows
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Partitions :-O !!!  (Now that I have VMware running Win98 that is not as
> >>>>scary... Have to be able to use MS Money)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>JJN
> >>>>--- Greg Neumann <dadneumann at adelphia.net> wrote:
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Wow!  Another Daggerfall addict!  Hey, Daggerfall is tricky enough to 
> >>>>>get to run in native DOS, let alone an emulator!  My solution is to
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>just 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>>have a DOS partition.  Of course, I'm very much resigned to having 
> >>>>>Daggerfall crash in DOS at least once every session.  Running it in 
> >>>>>Win98 works about the same, and getting sound support is iffy at best. 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I gave up on Win95.  I rather doubt you'll ever get good Daggerfall 
> >>>>>performance in an emulation, as the game itself is far from stable.  If
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>you have any luck, please post.
> >>>>>-Greg
> >>>>>
> >>>>>JJ Neff wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I tried Wine, DOSEMU and FreeDos, I just can't seem to get DaggerFall
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>to
> >>    
> >>
> >>>run
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>>in
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Linux.  It's a Dos6 game that came out prior to Win95.  
> >>>>>>I tried DosBox and that site has a note specifically about Daggerfall
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>that
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>>it
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>segfaults and sure enough it did.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Wine started the install but then froze and wouldn't let me click
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>anything
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>>>(mouse problem?) and Dosemu doesn;t seem to want to find the CDrom to
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>run
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>>the
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>install.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Any help? easy to follow web sites or suggestions?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Thanks
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>JJN
> >>>>>>
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> >>>Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
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