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Post by wat on Aug 11, 2020 22:53:12 GMT 1
Symptom is that when I run/test Money Counts I get the errors: "Unsupported 16 bit app". Then "This app can't run on your PC". Installed vDOS 2020.03.01 in a new desktop PC with a 64 bit Win 10 Home system. Data Perfect ran normally. Cleared out the autoexec.txt file and saved the empty file. Re-started vDOS and it opened to the normal DOS prompt.
Money Counts ver 8, Parsons Tech., is an accounting program that my wife uses. It still works on our old XP PC, with Service Pack 3. In the XP, Money Counts is located at C:\MCW All programs, DLL's, data, etc. are in this folder.
In the XP, it is launched from a desktop short cut: Target: C:\MCW\MCWIN.EXE Start in: C:\MCW There is no autoexec.bat file. There is a configuration file: MCWIN.INI The application file is MCWIN.EXE
I created a directory in vDOS C:\MCW> I copied all the files from the XP C:\MCW to the Win 10 PC vDOS C:\MCW> When I press enter for vDOS C:\MCW>MCWIN.EXE I get the error messages.
There are four *.EXE tools in the MCWIN.INI file ... I tried to REM them out, but still get the same error messages. I am not sure what to try next.
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Post by Jos on Aug 11, 2020 23:12:18 GMT 1
It seems Money Counts is a Windows 16-bit program. vDos only supports DOS programs, so it ends for vDos. Probably winevdm (https://github.com/otya128/winevdm) would be an option.
Jos
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