[Coco] Off-Topic MSDOS Emulation

Joel Rees joel.rees at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 07:14:45 EDT 2019


What program?

And what format files?

2019年4月24日(水) 10:37 Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net>:

> 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!
>
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