Hi Liam, Gmail on my Android phone forces me to be type an answer above a previous reply. Don't know how change the email to plain text..
Anyway, thank you so much for all your helpful information! We are currently running this "dos" program in win 7 32 bit and were using it in Win XP before that. Yes I'm quite sure it's a dos program.. the only colours are black, blue, white and yellow. It has no windows and it's all command line in appearance, no mouse works just all arrow keys to navigate around. I think I read that MS are ending support for XP mode but maybe that's worth a try if it'll make things easier with networking and usb support which we need. I'll see if I can keep this ancient program running for another year or two! Cheers, Sean On Fri 4 Mar 2022, 15:16 Liam Proven, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 15:22, Sean Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > > [By the way, it's convention and good netiquette to bottom-post on > mailing lists. Gmail does it just fine; I'm doing it right now. Click > the vertical 3 dots by the trashcan, pick "plain text" and then hit > Ctrl-A to select all. Then you can edit and reply below the quoted > text.] > > > If the dongle won't be recognized by an OS running in a VM then I guess > I really do have a showstopper situation with freedos or win 7 or win 10 32 > bit. > > Definitely worth testing first! > > Also, DOS (any version) has next to no USB support, so I am surprised > a DOS app would use a USB dongle. It couldn't be a text-mode Windows > app, could it? > > > Is this for sure do you think? Well if I ever get the program to run > I'll see. > > Well, no, I am not. I don't even know what the program is. But it's > worth checking before you go to a lot of work. > > Did you know that Microsoft makes a free WinXP virtual machine > available for download for running DOS and 16-bit apps on 64-bit > Windows 7? It's called XP Mode: > > > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-xp-mode/17961f45-bd96-4c10-9e24-5181d8c33db5 > > It runs inside MS VirtualPC. > > There's an easy tweak to run that on Windows 8: > http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=19227&language=en > > I've done that and tried it. It worked fine. > > Linked from there is a discussion on how to run it on Win10: > http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?p=147758#p147758 > > I haven't tried that. > > I wrote an article on how to run the XP Mode VM on VirtualBox or VMware: > https://www.theregister.com/2014/04/10/how_to_run_xp_on_new_windows/ > > I believe you can also run it inside the free Hyper-V hypervisor > included in Win10. I have not tried that; I barely use Windows any > more. > > https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/135551-hyper-v-add-windows-xp-mode-virtual-machine-windows-10-a.html > > If you can get that working, it is authorised, legal MS code, produced > and distributed by MS itself, and it would be a lot easier than > networking FreeDOS in a VM, IMHO. > > I know that you can attach a USB device directly to a VirtualBox VM > and a VMWare VM, so that the dongle would be visible to the copy of > Windows inside the VM and therefore ought to active your app. I > presume this is also possible with Hyper-V but I have not tried it. > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) > 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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