I have seen some mixed reviews about dosbox 2008/1/26, David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I had good luck with DOSBox on Vista Home Premium > (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net). I was able to run APLI386 under it just > fine. > > David Mitchell > > Björn Helgason wrote: > > I bought a very cheap laptop recently and with it I got Vista even if I > did > > not want any M$ product. > > Anyway then I decided to keep Vista to try it out. > > Yesterday I was going to install a favorite game Sherlock I have used > off > > and on over the years. > > It is very good for kids to learn about einsteins puzzle. > > It is a Dos program and I have installed it in various flavors of > Windows. > > Not now in Vista. > > It seems that Vista has abandoned Dos. > > The recommendation I got was to install M$ Virtual Machine and start Dos > > there. > > I retrieved M$ Virtual Machine only to discover it is not supported in > the > > Vista Home Edition. > > I then looked for a new copy of Sherlock but for free was only a copy > that > > needed to be paid for. > > Then I discovered a free program called > > > http://demonews.com/downloadget.php?id=1220&file=9&evp=724e590e7277748b7c21aa3bd609f6f2 > > It is actually quite good. > > It is interesting that Vista does not support Dos anymore. > > I guess a lot of programs will have problem running under Vista. > > The majority of all Windows programs are really Dos programs. > > I guess this fact will move a lot of people over to Linux. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >
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