Great. I hope you’ll look beyond the initial vDos setup. And of course forget about searching for ‘interesting’ DOS programs. If you don’t already use one, those are of no interest. While most won’t even run in vDos, like a text based Internet browser, really?
Install went fine, but vDOS says it should not be run with elevated privilege. I'm open to suggestions; I've looked at the property sheet for the exefile and aside from running it in
vDos does not require elevated privileges to run. If it however gets those at startup, you’re warned: All Windows programs probably run elevated, without you knowing. More to this issue at the vDos forum, search for "elevated".
If that software is DOS based, and the Epilog Summit Laser printer is installed in Windows: Most likely yes. If the printer supports only some non-standard (Epson/IBM/PCL) language, you would have to use the RAW option to bypass the printer driver.
Not sure what you exactly mean: vDos nor DOSBox can’t be started at all. Or starting your DOS application in either throws this error. vDos and DOSBox have a support forum. You should post your problem there and provide more details what you’re trying to do…
Have a macbook pro. Running Parallels with Windows11 so I can test how my dos database performs using Vdos. Opens app great, but then I notice the MacOS is hijacking the Function keys. I can't figure out how to ensure that the old dos database application (DataEase). can allow me to use function keys to navigate client records. I wonder if is just because I'm running parallels program. I wrote a database 30+ years ago that my sister and her husband ran their business for 35 years with and it has worked flawlessly. That is until loading on their new windows 11 machine. Hoping VDOS is going to be our savior but not until we can get those function keys release from the underlying OS. HELP; anyone?
Jos is right, For DOS games you should really be looking at DOSBox. While you probably could get games running off an external floppy drive, you're probably better off picking old games up either on GOG.com or abandonware sites.
Has anyone tried to run a DOS application that reads and saves files from a floppy disk and connects to the internet?... would VDOS make it work in a Win 10 computer? Would the floppy drive need to be connected directly inside the computer or would a USB external floppy drive work the same way?
If the floppy disk can be accessed by Windows, so can it by vDos. You need Windows 7 or later. vDos does not support low level DOS network connectivity. So a DOS mail, FTP or Internet browser program won’t work. Remote files can be read and written if Windows can access those.
@@josschaars8387 the legacy DOS program is currently working in a Win 7 OS with an internal 3.5" floppy disk, and the powers that be want to move it to a Win 10 OS. Which is why I ask if an external 3.5" USB floppy would work the Same way. Tests Will tell.
DOS games mostly need a high level of emulating the inner (hardware) workings of a DOS PC. Serious DOS applications don’t, the design and focus of vDos is to those.
well v as either in virtual dos or virtua dos for vDOS is better than dosbox which has 32bit emulator at last so we can pay respects to these originality vanilla dos goodness versions.
vDos focusses at running DOS applications. Not exactly as they once did, but adapted to how they could/should run on modern Windows systems. So sometimes even correcting the behavior of a DOS application.
“virtualDos”: VirtualBox with a DOS OS guest installed? Other virtualization methods running DOS neither match vDos ease of installation and use, nor incorporate modern Windows functionality. If you still use a DOS application, you would know.
