X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Received: by 10.50.26.66 with SMTP id j2mr19145040igg.0.1419429112858; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:51:52 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.101.12 with SMTP id t12mr22576qge.14.1419429112826; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:51:52 -0800 (PST) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:51:52 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.162.107.232; posting-account=v5xbdQoAAAAOGc9Ccc-kLZyobvPlN3Qr NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.162.107.232 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: DOS4WIN64 - DJGPP programs on Windows 7/8 From: Georg Potthast Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:51:52 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bytes: 2510 Lines: 26 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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