Boot to DOS?

[dbarton]

I was thinking of getting a new laptop with XP or Vista, but I often run a DOS application.

Can I boot up to a USB key with DOS 6.22 and run the app from that?
I guess I could do some kind of dual boot too, yes?

Will need to see the serial port on the laptop, and ideally the hard drive as well..

Workable?

 

[spherrod]

Just out of interest what's the application? Can it run via something like DosBox?

 

[JonnyBlaze]

You will need a program that lets dos read ntfs if thats how your drive is formatted. It should work tho. bootdisk.com has images that support ntfs.

 

[dbarton]

I tried DOSbox or something simialar a few years agio, and the app was painfully slow.. Suprised me cos the app is from 1995 and ran on very low CPU machines.

(It's a music sequencer prgram that needs the serial port. )

I wonder if it's still slow.. Has DOS box gotten a lot better?

 

[jfunk]

There's a lot of stuff you can configure in DOSbox.

I play some old games via it with no problem, but I've never tried something like giving hardware access to anything.

Most people that have performance problems don't realize that you can adjust the speed. Not saying you didn't know that, it's just the first complaint from almost everybody that tries it.

 

[dbarton]

DOSbox does seem to have gooten a lot better lately. Quite good now and much faster.

Still would prefer to run pure DOS and just boot to 6.22 so maybe a laptop wuth a serial port..

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: dbarton


Still would prefer to run pure DOS

hardcore.