nope, but guess qemu/vmware/vpc/virtualbox should work
(vpc runs rather well on xp home, dunno)

Try it on QEMU instead

thank you for the information. I'll try qemu and the others mentioned.

you can run Windows 95 under DOSBox

Windows NT isn't Win9x.

Windows NT is hardly a DOS os at all, so no

> you can run Windows 95 under DOSBox

As long as it doesn't have to use the page file 😉

Win NT isn't a mere DOS. It's a scheduled, paged, memory protected, tiered security-driven multi-user OS that was designed to be reasonably device and CPU independent. There were even versions of NT 3.51 and 4.00 (different HALs actually) made to run DEC(Compaq/HP) Alpha machines which had an entirely different CPU architecture (some of which incidentally we now use as parts of SMT, SMP and other forms of parallelism) to the Intel 386/486/early Pentium of the day. It uses more resources than some of the most complex games ever developed so DOSBox would likely need an overhaul to offer a far more robust and complete emulation to support NT.

As long as it doesn't have to use the page file Wink

I don't know. I can run Windows 95 inside DOSBox and I can run some programs.

Windows NT isn't Win9x.

I'm not saying DOSBox can run Windows NT since it can run Windows 95.

Well Starcraft Demo only runs with memsize=63 (or maybe a few less) else crashes to desktop.

NT 3x/4x would probably work fine with IDE support. I think wd? released a patch but I don't know if he tested NT with it.

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

Well Starcraft Demo only runs with memsize=63 (or maybe a few less) else crashes to desktop.

I said programs, not games.

I think wd? released a patch

Nope, only atapi cdrom. Dunno if NT would work if ide ports are available,
at least that was the stopper when i tried to get it working last time.

I'm not saying DOSBox can run Windows NT since it can run Windows 95.

Then why start on that at all in a NT thread? It's useless and annoying, especially if the thread then gets cluttered with more off topic replies. Can anyone of the ops clean this up?

Well it may work if installed by first installing win 3.11 on win 95 then installing the nt on win 3.11 or win 95.

eh? I don't think so. Stick to subjects you know a little about abyss...

Hm too bad we'll never know what it wants...
This is with old-style IDE port.
Dynamic core makes it furthest, normal and full crash earlier. Setup stage.

In Reactos the error code means SMSS didn't initialize in time but no idea how similar it is to NT 4.

I got further, i got further 😀
ReactOS seems to use mmx instructions and doesn't check if they
are available, which creates nice trouble.

Of course you as CPU core specialist 😉

Some time ago the Reactos people switched to Pentium as minimum system requirement (the cmpxchg instruction I think - Internet Exlorer 5 on Win95 needs that too).

No, was something different with their gui, i think it was mmx and i didn't
really want to implement that... Pentium as minimal requirement is fine,
but mmx sucks 😉