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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Old DOS applications can still be used


By Cameron,
DosBox is completely open source, it helps emulate programs that may not run on today’s newer systems, It is very light and easy to use, Here a Pc-Tech.biz we have recently used it to run a very old data basing software called “Prism”

This software had trouble running on newer systems as it was designed for a Windows 98 machine, we had the option of creating a virtual machine on which we would run Windows 98. But this was more expensive than working with a emulator exclusively for the target program.

It worked without a hitch and went though no worries! If anyone is looking for an awesome (And free!) open source emulator that is very easy to use please take a look at: http://www.dosbox.com/

It can very easily run on Windows, MacOS, Linux and Sun operating systems, as it is vendor neutral it can run any old DOS application!