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First post, by oleha

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Hi,

At work we have one computer left that has MS-DOS. This computer also consists vital code which are ran on bootable MS-DOS floppies.
As a developer I'm very afraid that the hard-drive on the developer station will break, which would give a lot of headache. Well, my first weapon against this is to try to make a virtual ms-dos computer, before I port my code to Win-64.

So therefore I've been recently installing MS-DOS 6.22 on DosBox following the instructions at
Installing MS-DOS on DosBox.

Further on I need to install Borland C++ 3.1 and PCTCP-kernel.
How do I do it? I've downloaded the compiler, but how to I create a image from it, so I can mount it as a CD-ROM or a harddrive image?

I also have code that I need to modify and share with Win7 (subversion), how can this be done? Applications we have written can be booted in bochs with internet support using pctcp-kernel.

Thank you very much for your replies,

Ole J.

Reply 1 of 4, by Dominus

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Mount the folder which contains the installers as c in dosbox, imgmount the dos 6.22 image as d, use the copy command to copy the installers from c to d.

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Reply 2 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 3 of 4, by Davros

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oleha wrote:

As a developer

If your the developer you should really be recompiling your code to run on modern systems.

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20633

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Reply 4 of 4, by Jorpho

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Are you sure you need to boot MS-DOS 6.22? Is your code doing something complex (like lower-level disk access) that can't be done normally in DOSBox?