Re: running DOS programs - failure

anon wrote:
> I have tried to run a couple of DOS programs on a wXP computer.
>
> I get an error message (similar to) "ERROR CM AT IP FFFDH"
>
> I think the hex addresses may be different.
>
> Why did this run ok on w98se but fails in wxp?
>
> Any cure for this as I need the data and output which is stored and
> produced by the programs.
>
> These programs don't have a windows version, only the DOS version.
>
> In addition, there are no web pages for these programs (mostly the
> programmers and companies are long gone.)
>
> Also is there any way to install DOS and have it run those DOS
> programs???

I had the same problems with some Lahey fortran programs I wrote back in the
90's. Worked on all M$ platforms until we went to XP. Have you looked into
using Microsoft Virtual PC? That worked, IIRC, but it was too difficult to
make the software portable so we ended up re-writing the code in C++ (thank
$diety I had retained the source code, being a packrat actually has it's
advantages some times!).