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First post, by brjuniper2

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I have an old DOS engineering program that I am trying to run on newer hardware. I'm trying provide my brother's business with some redundancy (he's still running on his original 486 for his business!). However, I need to get a number of commands to run from the original config.sys and cannot figure out where or how to put them in the dosbox-0.74.conf script. These are:

device=c:\pdgss\ibmbw.sys /group:display /t
device=c:\bdgss\ibmprcol.sys
device=c:\pdgss\gsscgi.sys

The program is called PayDirt and is an extremely old version that is no longer supported. I'm trying to get this to run on an Acer Aspire 5610 laptop laptop, but also be happy to see this program work on an older PII IBM workstation I'm giving him. I hope this is enough information. Thanks for your assistance!

Reply 1 of 2, by bloodbat

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Try Freedos...

Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

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You might be able to make a bootdisk image that you can run in DOSBox using the BOOT command that will parse the config.sys and load the device drivers.

Alternatively, there are some programs out there that will let you load device drivers from the command line, such as http://www.infradead.org/devload/ , without having to use a config.sys at all. I don't know how well they work with DOSBox, and the various different programs might have various different problems with different device drivers.

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