Hi Kent,
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as far as I remember, Microsoft is making the virtual graphics
card in DOS boxes worse in newer Windows versions: Win98 maybe
did VESA 2.0 with framebuffer, WinXP maybe did VGA, Vista only
does plain text mode, something like
If I understand you correctly, you prefer to leave the laptop
installed with Windows Vista, and boot FreeDOS just to run the
engineering program. Sounds like a virtual machine would be the
solution here.
You should be able to boot a copy of FreeDOS using Microsoft Virtual
PC, and run your
I have heard of DosBox, but I understand it is not free. I could purchase
multiple copies for distribution with my software. The cost is no problem,
but I
prefer to make things simple, if possible. I haven’t tried it yet.
If you mean the DosBox of http://dosbox.sf.net/, it is free under the
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
I sell an expensive DOS based engineering program
I also sell (rent) programs that run in DOS :) :) moving to FreeDOS...
You should first try VMware. It has everything that you need, even the
dongle should work. The only problem that I foresee is screen speed.
