On 02-01-20 22:42, August Abolins wrote to All <=-

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Subject: NTVDM64 Date: Tue Jan 14 2020 11:31 pm
From: Nick Andre To: All

I think I posted before about this, at least in the D'Bridge echo,
that there is a Sourceforge project porting the NTVDM subsystem of
32-bit Windows, over to 64-bit. The NTVDM system is the DOS-emulator
portion of Windows.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/

Nice, now have to work out how to compile it. Not something I normally do on Windows. :/



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Tony Langdon wrote to August Abolins <=-

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/

Nice, now have to work out how to compile it. Not something I normally
do on Windows. :/

Ditto. I was hoping for an installer.


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Re: Re: :::NEWS::: virtual DOS machine for x64 Windows
By: Kurt Weiske to Tony Langdon on Sun Feb 02 2020 11:29 am

Tony Langdon wrote to August Abolins <=-

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/

Nice, now have to work out how to compile it. Not something I normally do on Windows. :/

Ditto. I was hoping for an installer.

Try here?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/files/latest/download

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Tony Langdon wrote to August Abolins <=-

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/

Nice, now have to work out how to compile it. Not something I

normally

do on Windows. :/

Ditto. I was hoping for an installer.

Try here?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/files/latest/download

or try vDOS. Runs ok.

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On 02-02-20 12:22, Rob Swindell wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Re: Re: :::NEWS::: virtual DOS machine for x64 Windows
By: Kurt Weiske to Tony Langdon on Sun Feb 02 2020 11:29 am

Tony Langdon wrote to August Abolins <=-

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/

Nice, now have to work out how to compile it. Not something I normally do on Windows. :/

Ditto. I was hoping for an installer.

Try here?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/files/latest/download

Same file, that's just source code. So we're back to working out how to compile it. If it was a Linux project, dead simple, I do that all the time, but not on Windows.


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Hello Petros!

** 02.02.20 - 22:01, Petros Argyrakis wrote to Rob Swindell:

or try vDOS. Runs ok.

Ahh.. but that's not the same experience. vDOS is nagware and requires registration to run uninterrupted by a pop-up every 3 hours.

However, vDOS sounds like a fine solution for the serious-minded that absolutely rely on the resurrection of a few special DOS program from the past, and get on with things with their modern Win10/64 pcs.

Some POS (Point of Sale) and database applications come to mind!

There is a grwoing segment of people who have relied on specific DOS apps with their Win7/32 pcs for years and now need be able to use them on
Win10/64 pcs.

But is the future for fidonet-things dire without this capability?

It would seem to me that the more real/critical matter would be the "Year 2038" problem. Does this problem go away on 64bit systems that run old
DOS or Win/32-bit programs?


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On 02-02-20 21:53, August Abolins <=-
spoke to Petros Argyrakis about :::NEWS::: virtual DOS ma <=-

or try vDOS. Runs ok.

Ahh.. but that's not the same experience. vDOS is nagware and
requires registration to run uninterrupted by a pop-up every 3 hours.

I use vDOS for multiple applications and I have never gotten any pop-ups
nor request for registration. I will admit that the applications I use
it for do not run that long -- is that what you mean, 3 hours continous running?

Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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Petros Argyrakis wrote to Rob Swindell <=-

Try here?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/files/latest/download

or try vDOS. Runs ok.

I loved the fonts in vDos, but could not get it to work with archivers in MultiMail. I loved running MM in a 25x80 font smoothed full screen window in vDos, but couldn't create a reply packet. DOSBOX worked out of the "box",
but the fonts needed a little tweaking.


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Hello Dale!

** 03.02.20 - 01:51, Dale Shipp wrote to August Abolins:

I use vDOS for multiple applications and I have never gotten any pop-ups
nor request for registration. I will admit that the applications I use
it for do not run that long -- is that what you mean, 3 hours continous
running?

It has this on the "Register?" page:

"vDos is freeware for most. It will however check if the PC is joined to a domain, or files on a network drive are accessed. Then the About popup is displayed every three hours of continuous use."


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On 02-12-20 22:38, August Abolins <=-
spoke to Dale Shipp about vDOS <=-

I use vDOS for multiple applications and I have never gotten any pop-ups
nor request for registration. I will admit that the applications I use
it for do not run that long -- is that what you mean, 3 hours continous
running?

It has this on the "Register?" page:

"vDos is freeware for most. It will however check if the PC is joined
to a domain, or files on a network drive are accessed. Then the About popup is displayed every three hours of continuous use."

I do have a local network, but never am in a particular vDos
application for more than a few minutes. I guess that is why I have never
seen it. I use it to access my recipe data base (MealMaster) and a
couple of other small things. My BBS runs external to any vDos or 4NT application. I do my mail reading in an offline reader (BlueWave)
running in a XP Virtual window.

Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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