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DOS emulation for XP?
Name: SakiroA Date: December 8, 2002 at 21:22:46 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1.4ghz athlon, 512mb ram
Comment:
Yes, I know what you're thinking. You can access the prompt easy by just doing start > run "command". But really, that does such a terrible job emulating DOS programs it's not funny. I want a good, working, 3rd party non-microsoft-bull DOS emulator for XP. Does anyone know of any?
Name: XPose Date: December 9, 2002 at 01:52:23 Pacific
Reply:
Use a 98 boot disk... guaranteed 100% DOS.
Load any commands you need on to it and fire away.
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Response Number 2
Name: Justin77 Date: December 9, 2002 at 02:26:27 Pacific
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running any DOS emulator (if any good ones exist), will still require access to XP specific commands to simulate what they are supposed to be doing. In other words, it will emulating DOS via the terible xp commands.
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Response Number 3
Name: SakiroA Date: December 9, 2002 at 05:56:09 Pacific
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That's a good suggestion, XPose, but I forgot to mention my floppy drive went on the fritz. >.<
And by "commands" do you mean "dir","cd", etc? That wasn't made by XP, you know, they've been around in DOS since before there was a windows. If you mean more internal functions and whatnot, I wouldn't see why- that can all be emulated without XP's help.
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Response Number 4
Name: Justin77 Date: December 10, 2002 at 02:44:59 Pacific
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actually no everything can't be emulated without XP's help. With XP as the OS, XP is in control, plain and simple. Yes things like a dir, or cd command were around before XP, but XP is not using the original DOS versions of these commands. It is simply doing the same thing as those commands did, utilising the XP code - ie emulating those commands. The only way you'll get better control over DOS commands is to install DOS and do away with XP. XP wasn't made to run old DOS programs.
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