[Coco] Off-Topic MSDOS Emulation

[Bill Pierce]

I've used DOSBox quite a bit and had pretty good results in most cases. The trick to any of these types of emulations is to read the documentation and find out how to set up all the old memory additions and such that we used to use to run games. Most of these utilities can be found online on virtual disk images to be loaded into your dosbox setup.
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2019 9:37 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Off-Topic MSDOS Emulation

Sorry for the off-topic question, but I’m fairly sure someone on the list might have an opinion.

My father-in-law died a year ago.  He was using my very old Windows computer to run an MSDOS based genealogy program.  That computer is no longer functional, but I removed both IDE hard drives, and was able to copy all the genealogy data and program to my Win 10 computer using a USB adapter.  Since 64-bit Win 10 does not run DOS based programs, I was looking at 2 emulators, vDOS and DOSBOX.  Most comments I’ve read about DOSBOX deal with running old DOS-based games.  vDOS seems to be made more for other applications, but I can’t see why either would have a problem running this DOS genealogy program.

Do any of you have any experience using either program?  I’d appreciate any comments before I spend a lot of time learning to use one or the other.

Thanks!

--- Steve Ostrom ---


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