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Subject:	Re: DOS4WIN64 - DJGPP programs on Windows 7/8
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On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 21:51:53 UTC+8, Georg Potthast  wrote:
> I made a Qemu/DOS bundle to run my XFDOS package on Windows7/8. More or less as a proof of concept. It also includes a small FreeDOS distro called MetaDOS from Rugxulo.
> 
> You can download it here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/Applications/DOS4WIN64_beta1.zip
> 
> There is a lot of DOS software that will not run on Windows 7 or 8 in 64bit 
> mode. To allow DOS applications to be used on these systems they can be 
> bundled with DOS4WIN64 and started from the disk like any other application 
> on a Windows 7 or 8 system. No need to install DOSBOX or VMWare first. Or to 
> burn a Live CD and boot from that.
> 
> Just copy the DOS4WIN64 archive files into a directory and start the batch 
> file to run DOS and the DOS application from there.
> 
> So if you made software for DOS you do not want to abandon you could make a 
> Win8 version with DOS4WIN64.
> 
> You could also make a version of this package for Linux and OS X using a different version of Qemu thus making the DOS application "cross platform" ;-) 
> 
> Without my included XFDOS ISO image this package is just about 5 MB in size. 
> 
> So if you have a DJGPP application that you want to make available for Windows 
> 7 or 8 in 64 bit mode you could add this to the MetaDOS image in this 
> package and allow your users to run it on Windows 7 or 8 without installing 
> any additional emulation packages. If there is a FAT disk available on the PC, this disk can be accessed directly if configured.
> 
> Georg

thank you

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