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First post, by bill118911

Posted on 2016-01-07, 21:31

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hello I am working with a client to try to get there first choice program to work in dosbox so we can get them onto windows 7 with there server and computers they currently are running windows 98 and xp server for this program we found out about your program but are having trouble to get it to work is there any way someone might be able to help me thanks a lot Bill

Reply 1 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2016-01-07, 21:32

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Just don't.
Dosbox is made for games, other programs might work fine but if you want to use mission critical stuff - don't do it.

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Reply 2 of 5, by bill118911

Posted on 2016-01-07, 21:41

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is there anything you know to make a dos program work on windows 7 we are trying to update there stuff without having to redo there entire program onto access we already converted there files

Reply 3 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2016-01-07, 22:50

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Running a 32bit Windows 7. or VmWare or VirtualBox, I think.

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Reply 4 of 5, by PCBONEZ

Posted on 2016-01-07, 23:21

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This conversation happens over and over here. Last time was no more than 2 days ago about some other app in DOSBox.
There are DOSBox-like programs intended for apps.
Some were mentioned in that other tread, the one opened within the last 2 days.
I'm not into that stuff so I can't remember specifics. I just glanced over it.
If you can find that thread there will be some useful info.
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I agree with Dominus that VmWare or VirtualBox would be worth checking out.
Those have been around a while and are probably more polished than some of the others.
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Reply 5 of 5, by Matth79

Posted on 2016-01-08, 01:20

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ - Vdos is geared more to the non-gaming applications.

The other alternative being to run a full DOS under VMware/Virtualbox - MS-DOS if you have it available, or maybe FreeDos or Caldera/DRDOS

The main drawback of DOSbox for serious software, is the lack of SHARE support - it can be faked to fix things that grumble, but the moment something actually NEEDS SHARE to handle locking, bad things are likely to happen.

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