Subj : NXVDM project / walkthrough
To   : All
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sun Feb 02 2020 10:33 pm

Everyone,

I forgot to mention, you can download this from my website. Its not necessary 
to compile anything but it was tricky to hunt this down:

https://www.net229.org/misc/ntvdmx64.7z

Use WinRar or something to unzip to a temporary directory. I would strongly 
recommend disabling UAC or run with Admin rights.

On Windows 10 it may be necessary to enable 16-bit application support before
installing. Try following these steps:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-16-bit-application-support-windows-10/

On Windows Server 2012R2, 2016 and 2019, or if your Windows 10 has issues 
with the above, then it may be necessary to enable 16-bit application support
in Group Policy (disable the prevention setting) before installing NXVDM:

- Windows-key+R, GPEDIT.MSC
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Application
Compatibility

Also before installing, you most likely will need AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT
from 32-bit Windows, and you can also grab these from my site. Unzip these
in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

https://www.net229.org/misc/ntfiles.zip

*Now* you can go ahead and install NXVDM. Be sure to run the installer as 
Administrator. You must reboot the computer when prompted.

When your computer has rebooted, fire up a CMD prompt and run EDIT. You should
have the DOS EDIT blue-screen editor running.

You can now *seamlessly* run 16-bit DOS programs on your 64-bit Windows 
without Dosbox, Dosemu, Vdos or whatever emulators.

Now at this point, if you have it all working, then we move on to where I'm
stuck at which is the Fossil driver stuff. NET2BBS / NETFOSS does not appear
to work on 64-bit Windows. It appears the DLL cannot be found no matter
where I try to place it. I have emailed the author, no reply yet.  I
strongly suspect that the NETFOSS.DLL has to be recompiled for 64-bit.

Here is what I have succcesfully tested working on Windows Server 2019:

- D'Bridge
- Searchlight
- Renegade
- TBBS/Flame 2.3
- MakeNL and all 16-bit related archiver / compilers / Turbo Pascal stuff

Nick

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