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re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 7:16 pm
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Posted by Jim Moreley (1 messages posted)


Help! Sworm, it sounds like you have found some solutions. I have a great school mathematics program written in Z-Basic. It runs O.K. on the first Windows XP, but now XP Home and XP Professional kill it. I have many prev customers with new computers with XP and now they scream, as the program won't run. What can I do?? I welcome any suggestions. M$ offered none to date.


On Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 12:09 pm, Sworm wrote:
>I am sorry for bad english ,my #1 is Czech. What kind of idiot can say "all dos games
>will run on XP" ? There are many problems with memory ,sound ,controls and SPEED
>! 70% of old dos games won't run good ,because there is problem with speed. dos games
>will run (not in DosBOX!) good ,but without any sounds or only with strange MIDI
>sounds without SB. Tyrian won't run ,because of too fast CPU (when you slow down
>CPU by CPU Killer ,Tyrian will run) .... there is too many problems with XP. I know
>this problems ,so if anyone will have questions ,write to me!


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re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Sworm: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 12:09 pm)

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-DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Michael Gmirkin: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 2:55 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Ricer46: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 8:22 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Michael Gmirkin: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 12:18 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Adam Bradley: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 2:11 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Michael Gmirkin: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 7:52 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Adam Bradley: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 8:40 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Sworm: Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 12:09 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Jim Moreley: Thu, Nov 17, 2005, 7:16 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Ricer46: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 2:45 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Michael Gmirkin: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 7:56 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (who cares: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 12:45 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (jagged ben: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 2:32 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Michael Gmirkin: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 7:58 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (who cares: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 12:53 am)
*re: Tyrian (error 200) (Elliot_009: Sun, Feb 1, 2004, 3:58 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (marc margolies: Sat, Jul 12, 2003, 4:02 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (who cares: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 12:53 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Bill Morris: Fri, Oct 17, 2003, 6:50 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (marc margolies: Sat, Oct 18, 2003, 12:02 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Bill Morris: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 8:52 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (marc margolies: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 12:12 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Frank Rubin: Tue, Mar 23, 2004, 4:55 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Adam Bradley: Tue, Mar 23, 2004, 7:31 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Frank Rubin: Thu, Mar 25, 2004, 12:09 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Adam Bradley: Thu, Mar 25, 2004, 5:11 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Frank Rubin: Thu, Mar 25, 2004, 9:45 pm)
*Making the display more readable in the Dos Emulator (Avinash Tauro: Tue, May 11, 2004, 3:51 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Nathan_H: Mon, Aug 30, 2004, 11:49 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (666: Sun, Sep 12, 2004, 5:11 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (kerby: Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 5:46 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (666: Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 11:19 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Jonathan: Fri, Oct 15, 2004, 12:52 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Scott Knight: Sat, Oct 25, 2003, 10:11 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Steve Lyons: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:24 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Wayne: Sun, Sep 12, 2004, 7:13 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Peter: Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 2:07 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Joel MacDonald: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 9:32 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Peter Foley: Thu, Mar 18, 2004, 11:09 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (bob: Sun, Dec 25, 2005, 1:43 pm)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (johhny: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 6:00 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Robert Brigman: Tue, Apr 20, 2004, 1:59 pm)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Eli: Sun, Feb 27, 2005, 1:28 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (lewis: Sun, Apr 17, 2005, 5:22 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Kerry: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 8:10 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Ray Boorstin: Tue, May 9, 2006, 5:54 am)
-re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Kerry: Wed, May 10, 2006, 4:46 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Ray Boorstin: Wed, May 10, 2006, 5:25 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Ray Boorstin: Thu, May 11, 2006, 8:51 am)
*re: DOS programs work under Windows XP. (Shorty Emcee: Tue, Jan 9, 2007, 1:57 pm)
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