Well, theorically you could use Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 or some other elder complier. That assuming you can run it with no problems, of course.

Anyway, as stated on one of the stickies, it's strongly recomended to avoid using DosBox for anything but games. Bosch, with a minimal MS-DOS 6 installation would provably be more reliable.

That would be Bochs.

And i'd personally use something more sane than Bochs (which is as general and bare as x86 VMs can possibly get), such as Qemu or maybe even anything starting with a V (Virtual PC, VirtualBox, VMWare)

Not to mention that if your Win7 is Pro you can simply use XP Mode.

Of course, Bochs, my bad.

I'm curious leileilol, is there any particular reason why Bochs could be troublesome for building some basic 16bit assembler applications? I mean, is there any particular feature not correctly emulated or is it just a matter of trust?

And as for using XP compatibility, is it actually possible to run 16-bit applications with it? I've tried with several win16 games I've got around but had no luck with any of them (windows keeps complaining about it not being 32/64bits).

what MS calls 'XP Mode' isn't the same as the compatibility settings you speak of.

it's a virtual machine setup with a licensed copy of XP preinstalled (although it's somehow 'integrated' into your Win7 desktop, I think), so you can run pretty much everything that runs on XP natively - including 16-bit apps.

Dr.Demencio wrote:

I'm curious leileilol, is there any particular reason why Bochs could be troublesome for building some basic 16bit assembler applications? I mean, is there any particular feature not correctly emulated or is it just a matter of trust?

I think he means that it's very no-frills: everything has to be done through disk images, there's not really any configuration GUI, and it's also really slow.

I see. Well, thanks for the explanations.