Hi,

Anybody knows where I can find a DOS emulator for XP (Home)

Thanks

What do you need DOS for? Most DOS apps I’ve needed to use have worked acceptably under XP. My boss even uses an ancient Paradox 4-based program as his “royalty safety blanket”. I’ve already told him he’s insane.

Would a DOS boot CD solve your problem?

Reason: old app that runs only on exclusive DOS

I can try the DOS Boot CD - thanks

Do you simply need DOS for the command line interface (CLI) or do you need to run legacy DOS programs that won’t run under XP’s CLI?

If it’s the latter you have several choices of software. There’s VMWare Workstation that lets you emulate a virtual PC and allows you to run nearly any x86 OS on it. Unfortunately, it’s a little pricey but it works extremely well.

Microsoft also has a Virtual PC 2004 which does the same thing but only costs $129. I’d say VMWare’s performance is slightly better network support. I’m using Virtual PC 2004 right now (got it for free with my MS subscription) and it works extremely well. I have two virtual PCs setup. One is a DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.1 while the other is Windows 98.

I thought about Virtual PC - but like you said it is a bit pricy, specially now that I just got my TR3A.
Anyways - I’ll try to download a trial version.
Thanks

I forgot to mention that the you can run any of those OSes fullscreen if you need to. At any rate, the Virtual PC product isn’t that bad…but perhaps it’s an added cost if you’ve just purchased your TR. What kind of application do you need to run?

It’s an app that simulates car driving exam

I installed the trial version and created a new Virtual PC Console (Win98)
It starts booting but would get “Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device”

By the way - have you ever tried running OSX with it?

When you create a virtual PC choosing from one of their choices (i.e. DOS, Win95, Win98, Win2K) all it does is optimize the virtual PC for that OS. It doesn’t actually install that OS. You need the original OS software (whether it’s floppy disks or CDs) available to install into the virtual PC.

You can place your original Win98 CD and mount it into the virtual PC and then boot from it. Or, if you have a USB floppy drive, you can mount that in the virtual PC and install DOS from floppies (if you have them).

You cannot run OSX in it as it only supports x86 processors. OSX was designed for the PPC processor platform. Also, OS X requires a Mac ROM file which Apple won’t release to third parties.

Understood - Thanks

Off topic:

I’m waiting for a PCAT (extended mode dOS) emulator for xscale PDA.

I think this would be pretty dern cool. To be able to run Windows 95 and 98 on a VGA handheld.

I’ve been waiting for this for years.

I think when the Xscale gets to around 800MHZ if somebody did a good job in assembly an emulator might get Intel 50MHZ DX performance (great for WIndows 95)

nostalgia?