Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games locally without
issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go... just curious on windows 7.

I know it's not mystic related but figured I'd ask here =)

Thanks,

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Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games
locally without issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go...
just curious on windows 7.
I know it's not mystic related but figured I'd ask here =)
Thanks,
themadtux

No


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On 07/17/17, themadtux said the following...

Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games
locally without issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go...
just curious on windows 7.

Nope. Any of the 64bit Windows systems will not support 16bit applications anymore. You would have to run the 32bit version of Windows 7.


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On 07/17/17, themadtux said the following...

Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games
locally without issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go...
just curious on windows 7.

no you would have to use dosbox to do that because your going to try to run 16bit programs on a 64 bit environment. if you install 32b then they would
work with out dosbox

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On 07/17/17, themadtux said the following...

Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games
locally without issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go...
just curious on windows 7.

It has to do with the fact that most of the doors are 16-bit so you need a 32-bit operating system to run it. The version of Windows doesn't matter. I'm currently running on Win 7 x32 so don't have a problem. Same thing on my
other PC where I test stuff. It's Windows 10 x32.

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Nope. Any of the 64bit Windows systems will not support 16bit
applications anymore. You would have to run the 32bit version of Windows 7.

Ok great that answered that. Windows 10 32bit will have to be it then..
time to reinstall. Thanks for the help!

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themadtux wrote to All <=-

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Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games
locally without issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go...
just curious on windows 7.

The issues are identical for any 64 bit version of Windows - XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, 10.


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I can't speak for Windows... but on Linux I've been running my DOS Doors via DOSEMU and that's worked reasonably well for me for the most part. (Not
running *many* doors atm. But the ones I do run seem to be working well).

You can use DosBox on Windows (or Linux) for this, but my understanding is
that it has some issues running multiple sessions of the same door at once where apparently DOSEMU works fine.

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Lasmori wrote to themadtux <=-

I can't speak for Windows... but on Linux I've been running my DOS
Doors via DOSEMU and that's worked reasonably well for me for the most part. (Not running *many* doors atm. But the ones I do run seem to be working well).

You can use DosBox on Windows (or Linux) for this, but my understanding
is that it has some issues running multiple sessions of the same door
at once where apparently DOSEMU works fine.

DOSEMU only runs on Linux. Yes, DOSBox will work on Linux and Win64, and I have read there are issues, as it doesn't support file sharing.


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On 07/17/17, themadtux said the following...

Nope. Any of the 64bit Windows systems will not support 16bit applications anymore. You would have to run the 32bit version of Wind 7.

Ok great that answered that. Windows 10 32bit will have to be it then.. time to reinstall. Thanks for the help!

My personal choice would be to run Linux. :) With Windoze, you should be alright with the 32 bit version.


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On 07/17/17, Lasmori said the following...

I can't speak for Windows... but on Linux I've been running my DOS Doors via DOSEMU and that's worked reasonably well for me for the most part. (Not running *many* doors atm. But the ones I do run seem to be working well).

DOSEMU on a Linux system works great! I've got quite a few DOS door games running on my Linux system with no problems at all.

You can use DosBox on Windows (or Linux) for this, but my understanding
is that it has some issues running multiple sessions of the same door at once where apparently DOSEMU works fine.

I wasn't able to even get DosBox running properly on the Windoze system here. The games would run fine in local mode, but the ANSI would be such a mess on the users end. Of course this was a combination or DoxBox and DoorParty, so
it could have been either one giving me the problems...


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Black Panther wrote to Lasmori <=-

DOSEMU on a Linux system works great! I've got quite a few DOS door
games running on my Linux system with no problems at all.

Provided you're using an Intel/AMD processor. Can't run DOSemu on a Pi.

I wasn't able to even get DosBox running properly on the Windoze system here. The games would run fine in local mode, but the ANSI would be
such a mess on the users end. Of course this was a combination or
DoxBox and DoorParty, so it could have been either one giving me the problems...

I haven't tried using DOSBox for doors yet. :) I'd probably setup a local door server on Win32 if I went down that route. :)


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Ok great that answered that. Windows 10 32bit will have to be it
then.. time to reinstall. Thanks for the help!

There is also a compatibility option to allow 16-bit programs under 32-bit Win 10. Be sure and set it!


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RE: Re: 64bit
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DOSEMU only runs on Linux. Yes, DOSBox will work on Linux and Win64, and
I
have read there are issues, as it doesn't support file sharing.

The most recent 0.74 doesn't, but there's patches to implement it. I've merged in the windows one, plan on implementing it for linux too soonish. Anyway my patched DOSbox is here: https://github.com/wwiv/dosbox
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Rushfan wrote to Vk3jed <=-

The most recent 0.74 doesn't, but there's patches to implement it.
I've merged in the windows one, plan on implementing it for linux too soonish. Anyway my patched DOSbox is here:
https://github.com/wwiv/dosbox Rushfan

I saw source there, do you either have a binary or documentation on the environment required o build it (especially for Windows)?


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The most recent 0.74 doesn't, but there's patches to implement it.
I've merged in the windows one, plan on implementing it for linux too soonish. Anyway my patched DOSbox is here: https://github.com/wwiv/dosbox Rushfan

I saw source there, do you either have a binary or documentation on the environment required o build it (especially for Windows)?

Yes, it should be in the readme.

You can use Visual Studio 2015 and open the Solution named: ./visualc_net/dosbox.sln

I build it in visual studio. It should also build with 2017 too.

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Rushfan wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Yes, it should be in the readme.

You can use Visual Studio 2015 and open the Solution named: ./visualc_net/dosbox.sln

I might give that a try. I have VS2015 here.

Hmm, more work needed, it didn't build (missing files).


Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or
directory SDL_net c:\downloads\dosbox-master\deps\sdl_net-1.2.8\SDL_net.h 27
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or
directory SDL_net c:\downloads\dosbox-master\deps\sdl_net-1.2.8\SDL_net.h 27
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or
directory SDL_net c:\downloads\dosbox-master\deps\sdl_net-1.2.8\SDL_net.h 27
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'SDL_endian.h': No such file or directory SDL_net C:\Downloads\dosbox-master\deps\SDL_net-1.2.8\SDLnet.c 26

I'll check the other READMEs :)

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Ok here's a question for ya. I recently built a box for the board, installed Windows 7 x64, will I be able to run the old door games
locally without issue? I know with Windows 10 x64 it was a no go...
just curious on windows 7.

No you have to have the 32 bit version of Windows :(

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