On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:
HiNTOS is a DOS extender and Windows emulator that converts Windows console programs into programs that run in both Windows and DOS. It's the only one that can convert *fixed* PE executables (WDOSX can't!). HiNTOS is at http://www.alex-hint.narod.ru/hintos-e.html
Just in case you didn't know, there's yet another program in this department: HX, see http://www.japheth.de.
Japheth has been very helpful in finding bugs in DOSEMU's built-in DOS extender (yes even though the DPMI spec doesn't mention it, a DPMI server will have to provide some DOS extender services to be compatible just because Windows' built-in DPMI server does that too).
Thank you, Bart! I didn't know about HX (so I wasn't right that HiNTOS is unique!), hence I spent a few hours on it. I downloaded all the 10 ZIPs there but none contained CRTDLL.DLL that PESTUB.EXE needs. So I couldn't use it. But I tried the resident mode. The idea is great - for the price of just 496 resident bytes you could run PE files unpatched! But although I was able to run ML 6.15 and SC 8.38 on their own in both MS-DOS and FreeDOS (RAR 3.30 failed with a message that the required ExitWindowsEx call is unsupported), both failed with register dumps when I tried to build real projects with NMAKE and SMAKE, respectively, although I set DPMILDR=8 as recommended. (BCC 5.02 however ran successfully even in FreeDOS because it didn't have the chance to use 32RTM ;-) But TLIB failed to run in both MS-DOS and FreeDOS. So, at least for me, HiNTOS is the winner, because it runs RAR 3.30, ML 6.15 and SC 8.38 successfully, including when building projects with NMAKE and SMAKE, albeit HiNTOS doesn't support FreeDOS and DR-DOS but only MS-DOS, PC-DOS and ROM-DOS. But I'm sure that if Japheth and Alex unite, they'll blow out Windows with their future SUPER OS!
Regards, Lucho
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