Running DOS on XP

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I was wondering if there was a way to run DOS in the
background of XP. I have an emulator I'd wished to run,
but my laptop here is running into a few problems.
First, the emulator I'm using doesn't seem to have a
problem running on my Main Computer with XP Professional
on it, but when I try to run the same program on my
laptop, it corrupts my desktop making everything
completely difficult to see clearly. The only
differences I see from my Main Computer to my laptop is
that for one as I mentioned, I'm running on XP Home on my
laptop, and XP Pro on my Main Computer. And second, my
Main Computer video card holds a Ge Force4 MX440 and my
laptop is running with an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm
basically wondering if there is a way I can run DOS in
the background of XP to run my emulator. Since the
emulator is a DOS based program, it would make sense to
me that it would work fine without the errors if DOS was
full supported on my machine. Any help is appreciate,
thanks.
 
The emulator is called M.U.G.E.N. As small DOS based
program that is the basis of a simple 2D fighting game
that has design elements. A game engine so to speak.
The developers themselves posted on their web site that
their program is primarily for DOS use, so problems with
Windows are normal if attempted, but the fact that it
runs fine on my Main Computer running XP Pro with a Ge
Force 4 MX440, versus my laptop that runs XP Home with a
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro puzzles me. The emulator does seem
to run on my laptop, but it corrupts my desktop, forcing
my to restart because it makes everything unvisable.

You mention the Program Compadibility Wizard. Now is
that the tab in the properties window that allows you to
change what the program you're altering to run in another
said format such as Win 95/98/ME/2000? If that's what
you mean by that, I've tried that, and each time it
corrupts my desktop display forcing me to restart. It's
something I suppose I could deal with, but I'd rather not
restart everytime I quit out of the program. Thinking
about just running my laptop with the Multibooting
Solution where I can boot with either WIN XP or say WIN
98, but I know that would just eat up a lot of hard drive
space having two OS on my laptop. Anything else you may
be able to suggest Robert? Or anyone else? Thanks again,
all help is greatly appreciated.
 
Mmmm...I'll look into that VMWare. Scanning my laptop as
I write to see if I do have the current drivers on my
laptop. Thanks a lot Rob, your suggestions have really
helped.
 
Mantis said:
Mmmm...I'll look into that VMWare. Scanning my laptop as
I write to see if I do have the current drivers on my
laptop. Thanks a lot Rob, your suggestions have really
helped.
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Not sure what you mean by "scanning". What I would have thought you
would do is go to My Computer, Properties, Harware Tab, Device Manager
button. Look at the properties for your "Display Adapter". Access
laptop manufacturer's support web site an compare version numbers. Take
it from there.
 
Mantis said:
I was wondering if there was a way to run DOS in the
background of XP. I have an emulator I'd wished to run,
but my laptop here is running into a few problems.
First, the emulator I'm using doesn't seem to have a
problem running on my Main Computer with XP Professional
on it, but when I try to run the same program on my
laptop, it corrupts my desktop making everything
completely difficult to see clearly. The only
differences I see from my Main Computer to my laptop is
that for one as I mentioned, I'm running on XP Home on my
laptop, and XP Pro on my Main Computer. And second, my
Main Computer video card holds a Ge Force4 MX440 and my
laptop is running with an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm
basically wondering if there is a way I can run DOS in
the background of XP to run my emulator. Since the
emulator is a DOS based program, it would make sense to
me that it would work fine without the errors if DOS was
full supported on my machine.
Click to expand...

You *cannot* run real mode DOS under XP - that would require direct
access to hardware which XP is not going to permit. It was allowing
things like that which led to a lot of the stability problems of Win98.

All that is provided is an emulated DOS environment, which is what your
program is running in now. It then accesses the hardware through
Windows normal drivers. This will be unaffected by Home or Pro - but
might be dependent on other hardware than the graphics, depending on
what your program tries to do
 
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