I have installed DOSBox and it looks pretty robust. However my main reason for installing was to enable me to run some batch builds that depended on some MS-DOS 16 bit apps that it is not worth porting to 32-bit. These batch files run fine on Windows XP, but I have just ported to a WIndows 8 64-bit system and the only way I can run the 16-bit apps in these batch builds is to run inside a DOSBox.

However, DOSBox doesn't seem to implement the syntax construct:

1if <condition> (
2  blah
3  blah
4  )
5else (
6  blah
7  blah
8  )

There are other batch "features" I use like delayed expansion also that probably won't work though I haven't investigated these . Is these a way to handle these (apart from rewriting the batch files and polluting them with GOTOs)?

TIA
R