I chose physical disc (1). The only other option is physical disc (0) which has been the Win 10 C: drive. So I do not know what (0) represents.

Getting closer. I followed the steps you mentioned, albeit with the higher numbered version of VMware, and currently only have A: and R:drives on the VM. The R drive is a network drive. My USB with the Crystal files are on G: drive in Win 10 and it is inaccessible when the VM is turned on. That’s …

It sounds so easy and logical the way you describe it, treeman, but i am still not getting it done. To start, i am using VMware Workstation 14.1.3 build-9474260. I, too, boot the VM off a “CD drive” using an iso of DOS 6.22; however, i am finding no way of specifying any connection between the VM …

So I spent the better part of yesterday trying to get a VM created with VMware to access files on my Windows 10 host. Drive mapping was grayed out, my main folder was shared and the working directory for the VM was present on the host. I made sure that Windows sharing permissions were open. I find …

treeman, Errius, Zup and DosFreak - thank you for your input. The app has full access to the 640K of conventional mem. I tried LOADFIX unsuccessfully. Since PCX.EXE is invoked by Crystal, not sure how to "LOADFIX it." I tried LOADFIX PCX.EXE before the primary executable, TECH.EXE with no change. I …

I am trying to use the runtime version of an old expert system shell called “Crystal” by intelligent Environments to access some work i did in the early 1990’s. The runtime program invokes a “PCX.exe” program in addition to the crystal runtime file and i get an “insufficent memory” message from …