Win. XP and DOS

[Dr. Famicom]

How do I get them to work together in harmony, instead of giving me the "device failed to initialize fullscreen mode" error message?

This is a simple and newbish question, I'll admit, but I can't find help anywhere else.

 

[Eagle]

You don't. XP is not reliant on DOS as previous versions of Windows are. XP is truely its own operating system.

 

[Eagle]

oh, you just want a full screen console? Start the command prompt and hit Alt+Enter.

 

[Dr. Famicom]

I didn't really mean "work together", I was speaking in a literary way. Sorry about that. My problem is that anytime I try to start any MS-DOS application, it either gives me that error message, or doesn't do anything at all. Specifically, I can't get any emulator-related tools to identify anything or find tiles.

 

[doggie]

well.. its not dos.. its just a mear clone of it... microsoft have ceased working on such an old program.. i don't know why people continue to actually use it :happy:

 

[The Khan Artist]

i don't know why people continue to actually use it :happy:

'Cause it's damn fast?

Anyways, the best way is to dual-boot WinXP and either Win98SE or FreeDOS.

 

[mesman00]

You don't. XP is not reliant on DOS as previous versions of Windows are. XP is truely its own operating system.

isn't it the same w/ win2k?

 

[Dr. Famicom]

'Cause it's damn fast?

Anyways, the best way is to dual-boot WinXP and either Win98SE or FreeDOS.

That sounds helpful. Thanks. Now I'm off to find out what the heck a dual-boot is.

If I may, Where can I find this "FreeDOS" ?

 

[AlphaWolf]

isn't it the same w/ win2k?

All microsoft OSes based off of the NT code are this way.

 

[Rocketman_mab]

Good luck with the dual boot. Unless you have a FAT32 hard drive with 2000 or less on it you will have a lot of fun setting up a dual boot.


Along those lines, would it be possible to create an emulator that would simulate a DOS environment that could run in XP? If so, has it been done? (I'm talking something like an apple 2 emulator or something).

 

[AlphaWolf]

Think inside the bochs.

 

[Doomulation]

Well, Windows has always included a small software than can emulate dos in windows. It is still windows envoirment, though, so it isn't very useful.

 

[Stez02k]

try DOSBOX, its a very very fast DOS emulator for windows XP/2000 get it from www.zophar.net