Run 16-bit command line application on Windows 7 64-bit

Question

I have 16-bit command line tools that I want to run on Windows 7 x64

I don't want to use a Virtual Machine

Can the 16-bit tools be wrapped in some way?

Maybe a 16-bit CMD.exe emulator

Solution 1

http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/msdos/

This may help you. (Japanese website)

Solution 2

Have you tried downloading XP Mode (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx) for Windows 7? I know it works for 16bit GUI applications, but I don't know about command line programs.

also, you might want to look at DosBox (http://www.dosbox.com). It runs old DOS games, i don't know how it interacts with Windows, however, so I don't know if you can access the file system, etc from DosBox.

good luck, Mark

Comments

[Bernhard Gschwantner]

I thought of that after I posted. I don't there there's really no other way.

[bta]

I use DosBox to do this sort of thing and I have generally been successful. You are indeed able to share files and folders with dosbox, although long filenames or names with non-ASCII characters may not be handled as expected. There is more information (as well as examples) in the DosBox documentation.

[SparkyNZ]

This is life saver! Thanks for the link!!