Yes it is a different thing. Just a funny name coincidence. I hope it won't start a name war just as Mozilla Firebird (now FireFox) had. 😁

Yes indeed, it's a very different thing. It's not a replacement/enhancement over windows own dosbox, but let's you only control a dos window, like setting titlebar strings, icons and so on.

It's not helpful in running games.

I wonder which came first.

http://perfectsync.com/DOSBoxLicenseAgreement_V1.htm
Perfect Sync's DOSBox is Copyright © 2000. Apparently, the name is copyrighted. Hopefully, there's not going to be a lawsuit. But the word "DOSBox" has been slang for so long...
http://google.com/groups?selm=396B3E36.30651D … perfectsync.com
Release Date appears to be July 11th, 2000.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020310012607/htt … box.zophar.net/
First release of DOSBox (v0.1) was January 31st, 2002 - which reminds me - happy belated second birthday, DOSBox!

For the record...

I just spent the better part of my Saturday digging for the reason my text based program won't run native in XP. The reason I got inspired to do this was this comment at the top of the tread about a "DOSBOX B." I went and looked at that and it's everything I ever wanted for this program of mine. Unfortunately it has to run native for it to be of any use.

Basically the DOSBOX B is to control native DOS windows, regardless of the Windows version. And that's cool enough. Unfortunately for me the reason I find myself over here in DOSBOX A forum is because my program runs like a game. XP will not allow direct manipulation of memory or hardware and that's why it crashes. It has nothing to do with magical settings or memory this or that. It just flat is not allowed to run.

Thus a shell is needed to emulate with.

Now the question is if this next version of DOSBOX A can run Win-98 native, then maybe we can get back to normal -- and us text-heads with the "verboten" programs will have a use for (maybe) DOSBOX B. However who the heck knows?

So near ...

If you need to run Windows 98, you must use a different emulator e.g. Connectix (Microsoft) Virtual PC or Bochs (but be warned that Bochs is very unfriendly and definitely not for newbies).
Anyway: I do not understand why do you insist on running your DOS programs through Windows. Just run them directly in DOSBOX. What is there so important about the "other" DOSBOX that you need to use it?

Mirek