On Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:01:57 -0500, NT (Ant) wrote:

wrote:
It also seemed to kill a lot of old 32 bit windows software that will
not even run in compatibility mode. XP did not seem to have a problem
with any of my old stuff except dBase that wants to do direct writes
to the disk.
DOSBOX to the rescue.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Win%203.1%2...207%20suit.jpg

Virtual Machines would work too like free VirtualBox.

DOSBOX seems to do OK for what I am doing here. It is pretty easy to
set up and once you get into that environment it is pretty close to
real DOS.
I did load up a drive the other day with DOS 6.3 and W/3.1 just to be
sure a couple of my programs were working right.
It was a bit nostalgic when I recreated the environment on my desk at
work in 1996 when I backed up that machine on my way out the door.
One thing DOSBOX won't do is load ANSI.SYS and allow all of those
"Prompt" tricks.
It does run a whole lot faster on a 2.4gz machine than that 25mz 486 I
was running tho.