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First post, by JamesJoey

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I installed DosBox. After adding a dos game to add.bat using SendTo DosBox tells me it requires Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher even though I installed Java Runtime Environment 6. Is this the wrong Java?

Thanks,
James

Reply 3 of 10, by DosFreak

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Because your using some 3rd party frontend that requires Java?

DBGL http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/blankendaalr/dbgl/
requires Java. Is that what your using?

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Reply 4 of 10, by JamesJoey

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But, a third party front end isn't triggering this message.
As far as what version of DosBox I'm using, I have no idea. There's nothing in the program that indicates this. I was given a link from a usenet newsgroup to DosBox. I downloaded it and extracted the files from the zip to a folder called DosBox--no setup file or nothing.

James

Reply 7 of 10, by MiniMax

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JamesJoey wrote:

I installed DosBox. After adding a dos game to add.bat using SendTo DosBox tells me it requires Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher even though I installed Java Runtime Environment 6. Is this the wrong Java?

Can you open a command prompt (Start => Run ... => cmd.exe) and enter java -version:

C:\> java -version

If you have Java 6, it should say something like:

java version "1.6.0-rc"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-rc-b123)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-rc-123, mixed mode, sharing)

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Reply 8 of 10, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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JamesJoey wrote:

I installed DosBox. After adding a dos game to add.bat using SendTo DosBox tells me it requires Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher even though I installed Java Runtime Environment 6. Is this the wrong Java?

I don't know if this could be any help, but based on my experience, if it says 'JRE 1.5' then you should use JRE 1.5 despite the 'or higher' phrase. Once I was using an application that's supposed to use JRE 1.3, and everything went awry because I was using JRE 1.4.

Reply 10 of 10, by MiniMax

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Maybe we should start by determining which problem the original poster is trying to solve, before we post solutions?

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