From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralph Alvy Subject: Re: windows-nt character mode programs Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:47:35 -0800 Message-ID: References: <43FB4AA2.1030400@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hello. > > Ralph Alvy wrote: >> I noticed someone in the Crossover mailing list wanting to find a DOS >> emulater that will allow him to run a program that keeps giving him an >> error message like "this is a windows-nt character mode program". He >> said it won't work in dosemu/freedos, but I think he tried it in a very >> old dosemu/freedos. Might that work in the current dosemu/freedos >> environment now? > No, but there are a few programs, like wdosx > http://tippach.business.t-online.de/wdosx/ > which can do that under DOS and under dosemu. > There is also a more ambitious win32 emulator called HX: > http://www.japheth.de/HX.html > Apart from the text-mode programs, it also allows to run > some GUI programs like Quake2, zdoom, qemu/win32 etc. > But it is not mature yet, and is not fully supported under > dosemu, even though we work with its author and do our best to > make sure the proper support will appear in the subsequent dosemu > releases. > So to summarize: you can't run the win32 binaries under DOS > (dosemu) without using one of the existing win32 emulators. Thanks. I'll forward this to the Crossover mailing list.