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NTVDM.EXE on win 7 32 bit (Emulation)

posted by iw2evk, Magenta (Italy), 15.06.2020, 08:25

Renaming .Com in .exe cause the message error "this program can not work in fullscreen mode etc"
I've installed now Dosbox, fulscreen running but seem slow ..

> > This is intersted, but work only with EXE progra, not with .COM ..
>
> Perhaps it can be made to work if you rename the .COM file to have an .EXE
> filename extension. DOS doesn't care either way, but the file properties
> dialogue that you want may be displayed just by changing the name.
>
> If it really requires an MZ .EXE format file (unlikely), you can convert a
> flat .COM format file to wrap it in an MZ shim. It needs to set up SS = CS
> = -10h, SP = FFFEh, IP = 100h, and allocate enough memory to the process
> (64 KiB is plenty).

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