Its dos, and a 16 bit program.
go to cutt.us/blindvms and look up my podcast on dosbox I may even have
one on configurations.
You will need a copy of com0com , and allow the com ports through its a
bit complex than that and I can' tell you exactly how I got it because
by default its something like cnca0 or cncb2 or something like that.
The com ports that you select are those available in the system.
After you do that then in theory you can do that.
If you don't want to bother with dosbox, get a system you don't care for
and do a reformat and install windows any version 32 bit.
However, it must only have up to 4gb ram because you will not be able to
use more than that.
If you don't want to do that, you can do a vm and have a 32 bit os like
windows xp or something for gaming if you want.
If you are adventurous, you can run linux with dosbox via ssh or old
dosemu which hasn't been updated in ages.
dosbox is at http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox.
Finally, if you have the means, you can get oldgames.7z from there which
is the backup of my now dead keynote gold 1850 3386sx toshiba.
In there are images of dos 6.22, keysnoft and mastertouch.
Those are useless unless you have a gold synth and you can't get those
anymore so its all historical now.
But if you can get dos 6.22 and using rawwritewin and put it on 3.5 inch
floppies then you could run it.
I am not sure where you can get this but there is a released version of
dos 7.1, the last os release from microsoft.
Microsoft doesn't officially support it but it was just let out there.
Its not anything like dos 6, its heavily stripped down but does support
32 bit and more than 8 char filenames as well as fat32 file system.
If you want an official dos version drdos still exists but you will have
to spend 30 bucks.
The easiest solution is dosbox if you put a little work into it,
followed by linux.
A 32 bit os is fine if you have a system or can get a system with little
memmory but whatever.
On 19/12/2020 9:05 am, Nicol wrote:
HI all
I browsed the audio games archive and came across an interesting game called
drone written by dan z.
I am unable to launch the game.
This is the error message that I get when trying to launch the game:
C:\DRONE\DRONE.EXE The version of this file is not compatible with the
version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information
to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the
program, and then contact the software publisher.
I have windows7. It appears that I have 32 bit windows because On my c drive
I have a folder called program files x86.
Many thanks for any help
Bfn
Nicol
South africa
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