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First post, by gtcougar

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Will anyone out there help me ? I am with a fire dept & we are trying to reprogram kenwood radios to narrow band . The only programming for some of these is in ms dos we have the programs sent to us by Email & have them downloaded & un ziped. Can any one give us a step X step directions on how to use this We have the dosbox downloaded . we have a new windows xp computer . I am 62 years old & need lots of help . I can fix DIESEL Engines bot this dos stuff is driving me crazy I have spent the last 3 hrs. trying to get the dosbox program to work I know it is something I am doing wrong but cannot figure it out . Cannot get to go to c DRIVE HELP Thanks

Reply 2 of 3, by gtcougar

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Dominus wrote:

Don't use dosbox. If you are using Windows XP, its commandline should be ok.

We have tried using the commandline with no luck the dos program is a 16 what ever that is Thanks JIM It is a KGB 29D kenwood program

Reply 3 of 3, by Dominus

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16bit software runs mostly fine on Windows XP (as long as you have the normal 32bit version of XP).
Anyway, try following the 60 seconds guide in my sig.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper