Subj : NTVDMx64
To   : Nightfox
From : Android8675
Date : Wed Dec 15 2021 11:06:13

  Re: NTVDMx64
  By: Nightfox to Rob Swindell on Wed Dec 15 2021 09:43 am

 >   Re: src/sbbs3/dosxtrn/dosxtrn.c src/sbbs3/sbbsexec.c xtrn.cpp
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon Nov 29 2021 06:40 pm
 >
 >  RS> Install NTVDMx64 (http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html, it's not as onerous as it sounds)
 >
 > I was curious about this and tried to install it on my main PC last night, where I'm using Windows 11.  That page has a link to a compiled version with
 > an install.bat - Is that the one you used?  When I ran the install.bat, it complained at one point that it was unable to add a registry entry, and
 > after I rebooted my PC, I was still unable to run 16-bit software.  But also, I noticed that Microsoft Defender said it detected a virus in that
 > archive and quarantined it (I don't remember what virus it reported though).
 >
 > I'm curious to look at the GitHub project for that and try to install it using the instructions there to see if that would make a difference.

I tried several times to get it going and just stopped. I thought it would be nice, but then I switched to Linux and dropped the idea. Gonna try again tonight.

--rest of this message has been hijacked, so you can stop reading here--
HOWEVER, I found this goodie last week: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

Lets you run 16-bit Windows applications in x64 versions of Windows (Vista thru 10 tested I think), and I can confirm it works so well. I mounted an old "Microsoft Arcade" floppy image, ran setup.exe and everything worked like I was acutally running Windows 95/98.

I've no idea if there are any Windows 16-bit doors out there, but if so, might be a good time to blow the dust off them.
--back to your thread, sorry Nightfox--

-A.
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