Subj : NTVDMx64
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Dec 15 2021 11:38 am

  Re: NTVDMx64
  By: Nightfox to Rob Swindell on Wed Dec 15 2021 09:43 am

 >   Re: src/sbbs3/dosxtrn/dosxtrn.c src/sbbs3/sbbsexec.c xtrn.cpp
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon Nov 29 2021
 > 06:40 pm
 >
 >  RS> Install NTVDMx64 (http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html, it's not
 >  RS> as onerous as it sounds)
 >
 > I was curious about this and tried to install it on my main PC last night,
 > where I'm using Windows 11.  That page has a link to a compiled version with
 > an install.bat - Is that the one you used?


Yes, on Windows 10.

 > When I ran the install.bat, it
 > complained at one point that it was unable to add a registry entry, and
 > after I rebooted my PC, I was still unable to run 16-bit software.  But
 > also, I noticed that Microsoft Defender said it detected a virus in that
 > archive and quarantined it (I don't remember what virus it reported though).

I had to download the archive using wget as the browsers were rejecting the archive. I was able to extract and install it successfully however.

 > I'm curious to look at the GitHub project for that and try to install it
 > using the instructions there to see if that would make a difference.

I thought I read that Windows 11 wasn't supported by NTVDMx64.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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