X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Received: by 10.50.142.33 with SMTP id rt1mr2197712igb.7.1419482938134; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:48:58 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.111.200 with SMTP id ik8mr296735igb.1.1419482937926; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:48:57 -0800 (PST) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:48:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <fc8ed158-f5f7-40c2-b7db-b7f62a4c9764@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=115.135.65.81; posting-account=BmutVQkAAAD3ELbN6tqOP01arScKaYOh NNTP-Posting-Host: 115.135.65.81 References: <fc8ed158-f5f7-40c2-b7db-b7f62a4c9764 AT googlegroups DOT com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <df48d5b8-063a-495f-97cc-c18550c752d3@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: DOS4WIN64 - DJGPP programs on Windows 7/8 From: brinda leela <brindaleela AT gmail DOT com> Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:48:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bytes: 2791 Lines: 29 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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