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First post, by tatt

Posted on 2009-08-07, 11:22

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I have some old dos configuration software for my line of work. It is used to connect via serail port to a piece of equipment for configuration.

My other software works fine but this particular software appears to do a check of the operating system and errors out staing that the operating system is incompatible. The exact message is......

"Running from floppy of network drive, or non-compatible operating system. DEMONSTRATION MODE ONLY. Press ESC."

Im sure that the running from floppy or network drive part is not the issue. I have mounted directly the program folder as C: and get the same error.
Here is an outtake from the progs help file.......

"This program will work in fully functional mode if it is run from drive C on any computer running the following operating systems...
DOS.
WINDOWS 95.
WINDOWS 98.

Is there any way to force DOSBOX to announce itself as DOS so I can get this software to run.

Thanks in advance.

Chris

Reply 1 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-08-07, 11:44

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There is no "disable reporting as non-compatible operating system" flag.

Reply 2 of 10, by tatt

Posted on 2009-08-07, 14:29

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does dosbox report istelf as dos then ???

Reply 3 of 10, by tatt

Posted on 2009-08-07, 14:32

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The non-compatible operating system messgae is generated by our software, not dosbox!

Reply 4 of 10, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-08-07, 14:48

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You'll probably need to create an HD image, Install MS-DOS on it and then install your program.

You can do this in DOSBox, VPC or Vmware.

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Reply 5 of 10, by Qbix

Posted on 2009-08-07, 15:00

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we could probably modify dosbox so that your software detects it as dos compatible.
but as it isn't a game, I doubt that there is much incentive to do this

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Reply 6 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-08-07, 19:32

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Well he didn't even post the dosbox version. Or ANYTHING of use to analyze the problem.

Reply 7 of 10, by tatt

Posted on 2009-08-07, 19:44

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Version is 0.73 downloaded toady.

What else do you need to know. As decribed above is as far as I can get. 😕

Reply 8 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-08-07, 20:21

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mountings, how you installed the app

Reply 9 of 10, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-08-07, 22:13

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It could be that said software expects DOS 6.22 and incorrectly refuses to accept 5.00 (which is what DOSBox pretends to run) as a valid OS.

Check the README file for details on the VER command.

Reply 10 of 10, by tatt

Posted on 2009-08-09, 08:07

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FIXED.

Thanks all.

"ver set 6 22" this fixed the incompatible operating system part but would not run still.

Fixed this also by creating and formatting a hdd image then copying all my software here.

Thanks

Chris

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