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Some Exe's wont run correctly

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First post, by bozman

Posted on 2013-10-10, 03:19

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I have a couple of exe's that do not seam to run correctly within the Dosbox environment and I was hoping that someone might be able to give me some advise.

The exe's in question are LEXGTI.EXE and TAG2GTI.EXE , basically these two 16 bit programs are used to look inside a file for certian strings of data (more specifically incorrect data strings).

At the end of the process I should be left with 4 files ( this works from the command prompt in XP ) but in Dosbox I only get 2 files returned.

Are there any tricks to getting some applications to run ?

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2013-10-10, 04:02

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DOSBox is intended to run DOS games, not applications. That said, you may have better luck if you boot real DOS in DOSBox. But if you're going so far as to boot DOS on a disk image then the only compelling reason to use DOSBox over some other VM is if you're running a game that benefits from DOSBox's game-oriented hardware emulation, and applications generally do not benefit.

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