Re: some other parlor tricks with vDOS (?)

["Wengier W" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "wengierwu" for DMARC)]

Hi Jordan,

There is no doubt that all DOS programs or utilities will refuse to load in 64-bit Windows directly. You will not be able to run any DOS .COM or DOS .EXE files natively in 64-bit Windows 7. In order to run any of them, you need to load them in vDos-lfn or a virtual machine instead. Yes, vDos-lfn is designed to be a general-purpose no-gaming virtual DOS machine, so most DOS applications should run fine within it. Nevertheless, like the original vDos by Jos, there do exist some programs that might not work properly inside it. Such programs may require a full virtual machine, but as I said vDos(-lfn) should be compatible with most existing DOS programs. Hope this helps.

Wengier
 


 
 
 
 On Friday, August 5, 2016 5:08 PM, J R FOX  wrote:


 
Hi Wengier,

While looking for something else the other day, I came across some older DOS (6.2 ?) utilities and other small standalone ones that absolutely refuse to load in 64-bit Win 7.  There will be an error message that they are  "not compatible with this version of Windows."  If I tried to create a shortcut for them on the desktop, I got a different error, something about being out of disk space, which makes absolutely no sense.  (I tried a couple of them at random in 32-bit W7, and these did run.)  If that holds up for the rest, this must be a 64-bit issue, rather than a Win 7 issue ?  These are mostly .COM files, rather than .EXEs.

This led me to wonder if vDOS might also provide a solution here ?  Ideally, I would run each from a distinct batch file that first initiates vDOS, runs the utility, and then terminates vDOS when I quit the program.   For the moment, this is more a proof of concept than any great need to run said programs -- although that could change.  


   Jordan