On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 15:22, Sean Warner <plica2...@gmail.com> wrote:
[By the way, it's convention and good netiquette to bottom-post on mailing lists. Gmail does it just fine; I'm doing it right now. Click the vertical 3 dots by the trashcan, pick "plain text" and then hit Ctrl-A to select all. Then you can edit and reply below the quoted text.] > If the dongle won't be recognized by an OS running in a VM then I guess I > really do have a showstopper situation with freedos or win 7 or win 10 32 bit. Definitely worth testing first! Also, DOS (any version) has next to no USB support, so I am surprised a DOS app would use a USB dongle. It couldn't be a text-mode Windows app, could it? > Is this for sure do you think? Well if I ever get the program to run I'll see. Well, no, I am not. I don't even know what the program is. But it's worth checking before you go to a lot of work. Did you know that Microsoft makes a free WinXP virtual machine available for download for running DOS and 16-bit apps on 64-bit Windows 7? It's called XP Mode: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-xp-mode/17961f45-bd96-4c10-9e24-5181d8c33db5 It runs inside MS VirtualPC. There's an easy tweak to run that on Windows 8: http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=19227&language=en I've done that and tried it. It worked fine. Linked from there is a discussion on how to run it on Win10: http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?p=147758#p147758 I haven't tried that. I wrote an article on how to run the XP Mode VM on VirtualBox or VMware: https://www.theregister.com/2014/04/10/how_to_run_xp_on_new_windows/ I believe you can also run it inside the free Hyper-V hypervisor included in Win10. I have not tried that; I barely use Windows any more. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/135551-hyper-v-add-windows-xp-mode-virtual-machine-windows-10-a.html If you can get that working, it is authorised, legal MS code, produced and distributed by MS itself, and it would be a lot easier than networking FreeDOS in a VM, IMHO. I know that you can attach a USB device directly to a VirtualBox VM and a VMWare VM, so that the dongle would be visible to the copy of Windows inside the VM and therefore ought to active your app. I presume this is also possible with Hyper-V but I have not tried it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
