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First post, by NickA55

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Hi everyone - I have some FoxPro 2.6 DOS programs that I need to distribute to Windows 10 64 -bit systems. I've tested everything out in DOSBox and it works great. What I'd like to do is package everything up into a nice installer that installs DOSBox with my FoxPro program (I made it an executable), and creates a start menu icon and all of that. Has anyone done this before, or is this all going to be a manual process/script I create myself?

Reply 3 of 5, by junglemontana

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GOG basically does that when they sell old DOS games. But their installation tools are probably not publicly available.

While DOSbox is not desined to run non-games, if your software works well and your goals are not super professional, DOSbox can be a good choice as well.

Reply 5 of 5, by JosSchaars

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A further note: You can’t really test a multi-user application for consistency towards its databases.
dbDOS for instance once demonstrated record locking would work in a DOSBox mod. Bogus, since record locking of course also depends on the actual content on disk (not some cached data).
In a practical situation, more than one program instance could update index pages of a database at the ‘same’ time. It is extremely hard to validate such mechanism will work in 'real' live.