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DOSBox on Vista 64

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First post, by Polek

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Anybody know that DOSBox works on Vista 64?

Reply 2 of 8, by IIGS_User

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Polek wrote:

Anybody know that DOSBox works on Vista 64?

Do you mean 'whether'? 😅

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Reply 3 of 8, by Bekenn

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Uhh... are you sure about that? I have Vista 64, and 0.71 just crashes on me instantly. My best guess is it's because 64-bit Windows doesn't run 16-bit code.

Then again, I installed the 32-bit version of DOSBox. Is there an x64 version out there somewhere? I looked, but couldn't find one.

Reply 4 of 8, by MiniMax

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Qbix is sure - he wrote the damn thing! 😀

I am not sure but try removing any joysticks, restart, and then launch DOSBox.

Also, search the forum for something about setting an SDL_VIDEODRIVER variable.

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Reply 6 of 8, by Qbix

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probably the joystick bug again.
joysticktype=none in dosbox.conf

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Reply 7 of 8, by red_avatar

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Dosbox works fine here on Vista 64. I'll need to test more to see if it has any speed penalty though.

Reply 8 of 8, by Bekenn

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Thanks for the suggestions; I was even going so far as to try recompiling it myself, but today the version I downloaded here works fine with no modifications on my part. I'm confused, but I'm not going to complain about it!