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Subject: Re: No way to emulate DOS to run Rebel in XP ??

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 09:04:18 02/12/03

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On February 11, 2003 at 18:54:39, Axel Schumacher wrote:

>Hi there,
>is there really no way to emulate older programs in Windows XP? Unfortunately I
>have only XP on my computer here at home. I really would like to use Rebel..
>(I have Win98 on my other computer in my second appartement, but this
>appartement is several thousand kilometers from here :-/  ).

It's a bit clunky, but I presume you could do something with the contents of
this site:

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html

The difficulty is that it might not be possible to combine a boot disk which
gives you a DOS prompt with a hard disk partition which can be accessed from
that prompt (I presume you're using NTFS under XP).

What I was thinking of was:

- set up two hard disk partitions, a big one formatted as NTFS and a small one
formatted as FAT32;

- put Rebel 12 beta 1, and nothing else, on the FAT32 partition;

- boot using a Win98 or WinME boot disk.

In principle this would appear to make the FAT32 partition available without
booting into XP (98 and ME understand FAT32), but I'm not sure how (if) the
older OSes would cope with the NTFS partition.

(As a Linux user I can't test all this, but it sounds semi-plausible ;)

Alastair



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