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HELP - DOS Error 4 on an old Work App

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First post, by sentinelvdx

Posted on 2016-07-28, 18:22

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Hi,

I have an old app developed long time ago by a friend which is no more with us.
Thing is that I'm trying to run it with DOSBox, but I get DOS Error 4 when trying to open it.

To be more specific this is the error message:

I'm really new on this, so any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Reply 1 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-07-28, 18:29

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DOSBox is principally intended by games, and for serious applications you should probably consider a solution such as VMware (with Windows 98) or PCem. If your application is text-mode only, you should take a look at vDOS.

In any case, this sounds like a Clipper application; there have been many threads about these before. You should try using an SVN version of DOSBox; I believe some new fixes have been incorporated since 0.74 was released.

Reply 2 of 3, by sentinelvdx

Posted on 2016-07-28, 18:36

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Solved!

SET CLIPPER=F250

Reply 3 of 3, by sentinelvdx

Posted on 2016-07-28, 18:39

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Jorpho wrote:
DOSBox is principally intended by games, and for serious applications you should probably consider a solution such as VMware (with Windows 98) or PCem. If your application is text-mode only, you should take a look at vDOS.

In any case, this sounds like a Clipper application; there have been many threads about these before. You should try using an SVN version of DOSBox; I believe some new fixes have been incorporated since 0.74 was released.

Thanks, yes, I have tried first vDOS with no success and decided to use DOSBox (which like you, I use it for my old games too).
I wanted to avoid VM's because sometimes I use it on low resource pc's and I'm not always online to use my NAS to host it.

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