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First post, by NickA55

Posted on 2020-08-12, 17:07

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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 1 of 5, by Wengier

Posted on 2020-08-12, 19:32

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From the DOSBox developers:

DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION

For running DOS applications like FoxPro, It is recommended to use something like vDos/vDosPlus or DOSBox-X instead.

Reply 2 of 5, by NickA55

Posted on 2020-08-13, 00:51

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Wengier wrote on 2020-08-12, 19:32:

From the DOSBox developers:

DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION

For running DOS applications like FoxPro, It is recommended to use something like vDos/vDosPlus or DOSBox-X instead.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Reply 3 of 5, by junglemontana

Posted on 2020-08-14, 13:33

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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 4 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2020-08-14, 18:43

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NSIS is what I use.

https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page

The Sierra Help Pages -- New Sierra Game Installers -- Sierra Game Patches -- New Non-Sierra Game Installers

Reply 5 of 5, by JosSchaars

Posted on 2020-08-14, 21:31

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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.

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