" Bj?rn Helgason " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I have been using dosbox under XP for over a year now, and find it quite suitable for my needs. David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had good luck with DOSBox on Vista Home Premium > (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net). I was able to run APLI386 under it just > fine. It seems like the latest version 0.72 has moved here: http://dosbox.com/ (I just downloaded it earlier this morning, in fact) I have several DOS programs that broke big time when I upgraded to a 64-bit system and replaced by video card (Basically, any programs that use a graphical video mode would crash - the BIOS video call to set the graphics mode would abnormally terminate the program instead of returning). I don't know if this was a problem in the Windows XP DOS box, or more likely, the video driver. However, when I switched to running the programs in DOSbox rather than the Windows built-in command window, they worked fine. The main things I miss are the fact that I can't do Windows cut+paste text between the dos box and other applications, and the shell is crude and a bit buggy (not as nice as DOS 6.2) but then again, those aren't really that important if you're just using it to run legacy applications. -- Mark D. Niemiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
