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MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) (Announce)

posted by bretjohn  , Rio Rancho, NM, 01.07.2010, 18:09

Interesting, but _very_ limited usefulness. I tried running several simple MS-DOS command-line utilities, and not a single one of them worked. I got lots of INT 2Fh error messages (the programs checking for installed MS TSR's like PRINT), incorrect DOS version, and illegal INT 21h function calls. MS SETVER won't install to get past the incorrect DOS version errors, either.

Some of the FreeDOS utilities might work a lot better, but I don't normally use them.

On the whole, I'd say you're much better of installing a virtual machine (QEMU, BOCHS, DOSBox, Virtual PC, VMWare, etc.). Those all have problems and issues as well, but should be far less frustrating than trying to use a simple MS-DOS player with such limited capabilities.

If you really want to use the same computer for both DOS and Windows (which I always do), I would suggest avoiding Win64 as long as you possibly can. I manage to do it, but it causes me all kinds of grief.

Complete thread:

• MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - rr, 30.06.2010, 22:23 (Announce)
  • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - Rugxulo, 01.07.2010, 10:18
    • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - rr, 04.07.2010, 22:21
      • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - Khusraw, 04.07.2010, 22:27
      • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - Rugxulo, 05.07.2010, 16:05
  • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - bretjohn, 01.07.2010, 18:09
    • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - Rugxulo, 03.07.2010, 17:43
      • MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 (WIP) - Rugxulo, 03.07.2010, 20:29