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First post, by MortimerInBlack

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Hi, I'm using DOSbox 0.74 on Windows XP 32 bit Service Pack 3.

Trying to run some games from the Family Fun Pack of OS/2 Warp from back in the day, but DOSbox always complains that "This program must be run under OS/2".

Am I missing something? Could have sworn that all those apps were written in some form of DOS. Looking in the games' folders, they even have the typical dos-type files such as .cmd, .bat, and .exe

Is there another emulator for OS/2-specific games that I don't know about? Plz help I miss these games.

Reply 2 of 11, by ripsaw8080

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It's very similar to Windows executables (which also have the .exe extension) that tell you they must be run under Windows.

I found some info about the Family Fun Pack that suggests it includes a DOS game: Rapid Assault. That one might work in DOSBox.

Reply 3 of 11, by MortimerInBlack

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interesting, Rapid Assault works at first but it needs the CD to play despite the .exe being on my harddrive. Don't really care about that game right now tho; the other ones on the Fun Pack are what i'm interested in.

I'm looking for the add-on of DOSbox that emulates any OS/2 games. If no such add-on exists, then does anyone know of another emulator for OS/2 apps?

Reply 4 of 11, by Dominus

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1. if you don't have the CD the other games might give you problems, too, eventually.
2. Dosbox doesn't support Os/2 and AFAIK there is no emulator for that. You should be able to install OS/2 in a VM though, VM Ware or Virtualbox or others... You will need OS/2 for that, though

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Reply 5 of 11, by MortimerInBlack

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I do have the CD. I have the Family Fun Pack CD, and also the OS/2 Warp CD.

Been trying to install a VM on Virtual PC 2007, which says it supports it, but idk how to use VPC that well. IDK how to install OS/2 on a VM.

Theoretically, u shud be able to just download the VM files, put them in the right spot, and then it will already be installed---just have to select the VM in Virtual PC and then run it. But google is failing me on this. Can't find any install guides on Youtube either 🙁

Anyone got a OS/2 version 3 or 4 installed with Virtual PC 2007? If so, if you could upload the VM files, that would be perfect. But if u find a OS/2 install guide for it, leme know too.

thanks so far

Reply 7 of 11, by VileR

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MortimerInBlack wrote:

But if u find a OS/2 install guide for it, leme know too.

"How to install os/2 warp on virtual pc" gives me plenty of results...

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Reply 8 of 11, by Jorpho

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You might be able to run the game under eComStation, the successor of OS/2. There's a demo CD which you can use to boot your computer directly, or use with a virtual machine, without having to deal with a messy installation process.

Reply 9 of 11, by Norton Commander

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Dominus wrote:

You cannot openly give out the vm files. It's still copyrighted

Really? So if I create an MS-VPC 2004 VM with FreeDOS that VM is copyrighted and can't be freely re-distributed even though MS VPC 2004 itself is free software?

Reply 10 of 11, by DosFreak

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Obviously he was referring to the VM files containing OS/2.

The VHD specification is publicly available msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/window ... s.85).aspx

Although I'm unsure if their is a difference for the VHD spec in VPC 2004 and when the VHD spec was published. Anyways I doubt MS would be knocking down any doors if there were.

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Reply 11 of 11, by Dominus

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Norton Commander wrote:
Dominus wrote:

You cannot openly give out the vm files. It's still copyrighted

Really? So if I create an MS-VPC 2004 VM with FreeDOS that VM is copyrighted and can't be freely re-distributed even though MS VPC 2004 itself is free software?

I never wrote that. Of course I meant a VM with OS/2 on it, after all that was the context. How you arrive at a freedos VM is a mistery to me.

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