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16-bit Dos emulation in Win2k
Name: Shirley Date: October 24, 2002 at 15:53:42 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: PIII 1G
Comment:
I was hoping someone would know if there is an emulation program for 16-bit dos program under Win2k. I'm having a problem running old program under the new 32-bit architecture. Specifically, my inportb() and outportb() command don't work. Thanks.
Name: ferreto Date: October 30, 2002 at 04:22:50 Pacific
Reply:
The reason why this doesn't work is probably because DOS allows (win95/98 too) you to access your hardware directly. WinNT .. 2000 .. XP DON'T. Same problem is with the librariues of the velleman K8000 card.
Solution .... Get back to good, stable, working DOS !!!!
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Response Number 2
Name: ascii Date: November 10, 2002 at 14:51:00 Pacific
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There is an emulator for this job. Called wmware. You can find it from yahoo.
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