[Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Jim Michaels
I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7. I want XP. so I am up a creek without a paddle trying to do dos development and needing a newer intel machine with more cores (4 or 6). so, since everything HP offers is

[Freedos-devel] exFAT as a freedos filesystem?

2010-05-12 Thread Jim Michaels
what about the exFAT filesystem? - it is 64-bit (63-bit?) in any case, the filesystem handles huge amounts of data. - it is supported by windows vista SP1 and 7 (but not by xp prior to SP2) - it doesn't have the shortsighted 32GB limitation imposed by ill-written microsoft software. FAT32 can

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. Private problem of Macro$oft :-D Use DBAN to delete it and install FreeDOS then ;-) machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7 Many devices are sufficiently generic (USB, IDE/SATA, ICH/HDA sound, Graph usually has some

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
Let me give you more useable answers. Are you trying to use legacy DOS programs in Win7? I know thar Qemu used to work grat, and it is actively developed. It will give you a nice emulated machine with a NIC emulation. VirtualBox should work too, and should be much more easy. Both have nice