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To: Tunehead54
How do you bring up the DosBox? Your link goes a windows 3.11 source.

There is a manual for DoxBox on their website that will help you to run programs that are not in the demo that comes up when you click on the “Emulate it!” picture in the original link.

The difficulties you will have trying to get DoxBox to do what you want it to is directly proportional to the amount of time that you spent fooling with DOS and early versions of Windows in the “good old days”. When I look over the manual almost everything is familiar to me. But that is because the amount of time that I spent fooling with DOS and early versions of Windows is basically incalculable. There are tutorials available that you can follow< that will help you./p>

https://www.howtogeek.com/104725/how-to-use-dosbox-to-run-dos-games-and-old-apps/

In many ways installing DOS 6.22 in VMware Player virtual machine is more intuitive. Here is a good tutorial. You can download a version of DOS 6.22 on archive.org.

https://grantwinney.com/installing-dos-6-22-in-vmware-player/

72 posted on 10/21/2021 7:05:18 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

Thanks so much for both posts.

I know batch files, loading programs into high memory, working with the swap file in windows and missing a program called PCTools.

You could easily have two, four directories up dragging and dropping sorted as desired and easily dealing with dupes plus lots more.

Anyway again, thanks.

My test bench PC needs a new mother board so it might be a while. My To Do and HoneyDo list is daunting. ;-)


74 posted on 10/21/2021 7:54:59 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ; - )
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