On 1/7/23 13:33, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
I have a few DOS/Windows abandonware that I'd like to check but I only
want the DOS ones, because Wine on my installation is a total pain.
For example:
$ file test2/sm416.exe
test2/sm416.exe: Zip archive data, made by v2.0, extract using at least
v2.0, last modified Sat Mar 15 12:34:37 1986, uncompressed size 221709,
method=deflate, R
It doesn't really say much about this executable. However, if I
uncompress it:
$ ls test2/sm/
ADVANCE.DOC JOBS.SM RIGS.SM SMLRN.HLP SMREVU.HLP
ANTENNAS.SM NAMES.SM RUNS.SM SMMAIN.HLP SMSESS.HLP
CITIES.SM ORDER.SM SCRIPT.SM SMMEAS.HLP SMSTATS.HLP
CLASSES.SM 'Q&A.SM' SESSION.SM SMMORSE.HLP SMTKEY.HLP
EXAMQ.SM QSO1.SM SMBLD.HLP SMONLINE.HLP STATES.SM
FEEDBACK.FRM QSO2.SM SMBYE.SMT SMOP.HLP STEPS.SM
GROUPS.1 QUICK.DOC SMENH.HLP SMOPT.HLP WHATSNEW.416
GROUPS.2 QWORDS.SM SM.EXE SM.OVR
GROUPS.SM README.1ST SMHOME.HLP SM.PIF
HAMWORDS.SM REGWORDS.SM SM.ICO SMRADIO.HLP
$ file test2/sm/SM.EXE
test2/sm/SM.EXE: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS
Which makes me think it's DOS but it could be a false positive. Then,
how do I run it? Dosemu, Dosbox?
Hi Ottavio,
I think that "file" program has recognized the file properly. If this
was a Windows program it would contain installer like setup.exe file,
*.ini file, *.dll files so I think that this is a MS-DOS program.
You can try to run DOS programs with DosBox. If you have a virtual
machine with 32-bit Windows - this also will work.
Kind regards
Georgi