You can run DOS on a modern machine. For example on the floppy disc. You could also install it onto a USB or boot from CD. There are free alternatives like FreeDOS.

If you use a vm or dosbox then use them directly and not through another VM (xp mode is a Windows XP VM running in VirtualPC).

Thanks for your recommendations. I actually had it running previously on W XP within a VM and FreeDOS. I hoped it would work now "directly" in W7 XP-Mode, but unfortunately not.

It sounds interesting to install FreeDOS on a CD or USB stick. Sorry if I possibly ask some stupid questions:
1) Can FreeDOS be installed directly (without a VM) on an external memory?
2) How does W7 64bit then handle it? Does it "automatically" recognise the 32bit program and runs it as it would have been installed within the folder Programs(x86)?

Regards,
METsen

1. Yes I think it can
2. I think you are mistaking freedos with dosbox. Dosbox can be run on W7 64bit as Dosbox is a 32bit program. Freedos can be booted INSTEAD of W7, freedos is an operating system. Or it can be run inside a Virtual Machine and even in Dosbox.

Thank you Dominus. Yes, I forgot that DOS requires to be booted. So, if it is installed on an external memory it only can be run after a restart of the computer.

Regards and Servus nach Wien von einem CHer derzeit in K'nopel/I'bul.
METsen

Yup, that's right.

And Im actually in CH at the Vierwaldstätter See 😉

how do you print an old dos program in dosbox

can any one help??????????????????//
I have an old dos handicapping program that will run in dosbox but stops when it gets to the print stage of the program ??

can anyone solve this dilemna

In windows7 how do you print a dos file

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I have an old dos handicapping program. I use windows7 and the dos program will run in dosbox but quits when it gets to the print command in dos.

here is an example of the print language used in my dos file
Writeln(Lst,' Todays Date ',RaceDate:14);

can anyone help me solve this problem

PLEASE
email me at mewhite777@comcast.net

Are you on something? Don't quadrupel post the same question that many times.
Use the search on how to print with Dosbox if you are that impatient. Hint: megabuild only

sorry dominus I'm new at this ?

New to writing on forums or new to internet? I have never understood why people want answers emailed to them... And why does it seem, that people from US cannot write proper English?

Aideka wrote:

New to writing on forums or new to internet? I have never understood why people want answers emailed to them... And why does it seem, that people from US cannot write proper English?

Do I have to answer that one or are you being facetious 😉

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I have an old dos handicapping program. I use windows7 and the dos program will run in dosbox but quits when it gets to the pri […]
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I have an old dos handicapping program. I use windows7 and the dos program will run in dosbox but quits when it gets to the print command in dos.

here is an example of the print language used in my dos file
Writeln(Lst,' Todays Date ',RaceDate:14);

can anyone help me solve this problem

PLEASE
email me at mewhite777@comcast.net

Translation: I don't know how the Internet works, so I'm posting my question everywhere along with my email address, so I don't have to keep checking hundreds of sites in case someone answered.