Windows 7 & 16-bit

McGoon said:

oreo27 said:

Hi,

From experience with my brother in law's scenario. We were able to run DosBox on a Win 7 Pro x64 perfectly.

There was no need whatsoever to run a VM on it. DosBox worked perfectly on the 64 bit OS.

Thanks - my concern isn't for running DOS apps, but for running 16-bit Windows apps on a 64-bit Win OS. I love DOSBox, but it doesn't include Windows drivers.

Do you have any hints on where to go for a 16-bit Windows emulator to run VB6 and other legacy Win apps on 64-bit Win 7?

Thanks...

I had no trouble running it natively in Windows-7 Professional 64-bit, apart from the rather tiny screen. I was able to run Q-Edit and List.com on it (there are no Windows equivalents of these two indispensible tools - if anyone knows better, I'd love to hear from them).

I may have another go at getting a bigger window, but as the app seems to be based on 'games' I don't hold out much hope of finding much information outside the legacy 'games' environment.

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McGoon said:

DOSBox will run full-screen - just type Alt-Enter to toggle between the small, windowed version and the full-screen one. I run QEdit and SuperCalc with it daily. You may have to tweak your video settings to run full-screen on a widescreen display without crashing the computer, though. Read the readme.txt file in DOSBox's /documentation directory.

But...DOSBox won't run 16-bit Windows applications - only DOS apps. If anyone has any hints about how to get around 16-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Windows 7, I'm eager to hear about them.

Again, thanks.

Hi, according to this thread on Microsoft Answers:

Is Windows 7 able to run 16 bit installers under XP mode? - Microsoft Answers

You can probably try setting compatibility mode to Windows 95. This is a quick tutorial on how to do this. Let us know if it works.

Compatibility Mode

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McGoon said:

DOSBox will run full-screen - just type Alt-Enter to toggle between the small, windowed version and the full-screen one. I run QEdit and SuperCalc with it daily. You may have to tweak your video settings to run full-screen on a widescreen display without crashing the computer, though. Read the readme.txt file in DOSBox's /documentation directory.

I didn't know about the full-screen. At the moment I haven't put it back on Win-7 after a reinstall of the latter. But I'll look into it again.

I've found the ConText editor, which goes some way towards Q-Edit; unfortunately it won't fill a block but it does most other things which Q-Edit does.

Thanks to all who responded.

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McGoon said:

Hi. Thanks - we'll try setting compatibility mode to Win95 or 8 and see what happens. Unfortunately the note at the top of the tutorial above reads,

" Note
32 bit Windows has emulation for 16 bit programs built in. 64-bit Windows only has emulation for 32 bit programs."

That's kind of daunting. Let me work on this for a bit and I'll respond when I know more.

Thanks again.

If that's the case, there's one thing I can think of. I believe XP Mode is a 32 bit version so your application might work on it. No additional license is required if I'm not mistaken.

Windows XP Mode - Install and Setup

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McGoon said:

Thanks again. But if I'm not mistaken, XP Mode is all or nothing - either you run 7 as 7 or run it in XP mode, in which case you lose all the memory management advantages of 7.

Compatibility mode was a bust, too, by the way - it only works in the 32-bit install; not in the 64. But I'll keep looking - there has to be some way to run 16-bit Windows apps once 32-bit hardware's no longer available...

Thanks one more time!

No worries mate. Well yes, but how intensive can 16 bit apps be? :)

Darn, too bad mate. Well, if you do find a solution, let us know. Might help other users.

Might be someone else who can shed light onto your predicament :)