[nfbcs] Running 16-bit DOS Applications Under windows-7 64-bit

[Mike Freeman]

Hi, Steve.

Yeah; I looked at DOSBOX but, as you say, it's somewhat of a virtual machine
and I couldn't figure out a way to access it using JAWS (or, for that
matter, any other screen-reader). Actually, although there are some 16-bit
MSDOS native applications I'd like to run, part of the *real* reason it
might be fun to come up with something is that there are three very fine
CP/M emulators that run under good ol' MSDOS and I have a bunch of files
that are written in compressed formats very common thirty years ago under
Cp/M but almost unknown now and I'd like to be able to work with them.
Besides, Cp/M's ED comes about as close to DECsystem-10 TECO (an editor that
I loved because you could do almost anything with it including crashing your
PDP-10 mainframe) as anything that's come since (I once had a UNIX TECO but
don't know what I did with it).

Call me weird! I may have to resurrect my CP/M emulator that runs under UNIX
and work with Panix's shell.

Fun and games.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 10:00 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Running 16-bit DOS Applications Under windows-7 64-bit

Mike,

We looked at this because of NFBTRANS being 16-bit and we didn't find an
easy answer.  There is apparently a Windows XP emulator that you can run
within Windows 7 but as I understand it it is a little like a virtual
machine.  That means there is a good bit of setup as you can guess.

We got NFBTRANS compiled as a 32-bit application and avoided the problem.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:32:24 -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:

>Hi.

> 

>Anyone know of a screen-reader-accessible DOS emulator that would allow 
>running of MSDOS 16-bit applications under Windows-7 with a 64-bit 
>processor?

> 

>Thanks in advance.

> 

>Mike Freeman

> 

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