First post, by apollo16
I have installed DosBox 0.61 on Win2000 Sp4 in order to permit me to run my old Dos program: IBM Filing Assistant 2.0 where I have scheduled over 2000 articles with its parts fro my hobbies because this program run only under DOS or Windows 98 operating system and not under Win2000 or Windows Xp.
Your program is a light and easy program but don't permit me to run it.
My program have a protection that when I installing it, the program create in the root of hard disk a file with attrubite HSRA (Hidden, System, Read Only, Archive) activate. If this attribute are OFF the program don't run also in DOS.
Your program when open the Box show this file with its attribute OFF, also if they are ON, and the command "Attrib" don't exist in the Box.
In my opinion is a great improvement to maintain the exact attributes of each files of the directory mounted.
In this mode, I hope, my program and other can be running on Win2000 in dos emulating.
I have searched lots and lots freeware dos program emulator that permit me to run my program but for nothing.
I hope that you can help me, and you can me tell me an answer. Thanks.
An other suggestion is: permit user to create a file-batch in Win2000, in order to permit he, cliccking from Icon of batch on desktop, to create a
Dos-Box, mount a directory choosed from user, and run the program or game that user have choosed.
In this mode user can create an icon for each program or game DOS compatibility and cliccking them the game choosed starts !
He have on desktop more icon for more game.
Best Regards Andrea