[Coco] Off-Topic MSDOS Emulation

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

On 24/04/2019 02:28, Steve Ostrom wrote:
> 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.

There's also the option of running a virtual machine under something 
like VMWare player, Virtual box or Hyper-V (depending on which edition 
of Win 10 you have). You may even be able to get a pre-built virtual 
environment running an old version of MS/PC DOS, or more likely FreeDos.

Cheers.

Phill.