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1304936 2012-10-04 09:39:00 I'm not sure dosbox as an emulator will be able to interact with his CCD hardware?
Won't cost him much to try though.
KarameaDave (15222)
1304937 2012-10-04 11:07:00 You would require some driver(s) to interface between the hardware, the host OS and DOSBox itself.

Easier to install real DOS.
Agent_24 (57)
1304938 2012-10-10 08:49:00 Well I found a download site for MS DOS v6.22 which are 3 downloads being MS DOS v6.22 disk 1.rar, disk 2.rar and disk 3.rar. I have three formatted floppy disks, but how do I now move the files onto each disk.

I'm sure the proceedure is documented somewhere but I cannot find it. Any help appreciated.
curly (6655)
1304939 2012-10-10 10:44:00 RAR is an archive like ZIP, you must extract the files from the RAR archives first. Then assuming they are just the files, copy them to your disks. They may be disk images, in which case you would need a program that can write images, like Winimage.

There are several programs to open RAR files, WinRAR being the most popular. Winzip can open them now too I believe, also 7-Zip.
Agent_24 (57)
1304940 2012-10-10 20:30:00 My personal choice is 7zip for my unzipper. I find it does most archive types and at a fast speed. Also the main reason I got it was because downloading it was about 2 clicks where as winRAR I believe requires several and countless searching. But just my opinion :) stratex5 (16685)
1304941 2012-10-11 01:17:00 As stated, you need to uncompress it first.

If it's an EXE / COM file, cross your fingers and kiss your lucky rabbits foot before running it. There are some very old Trojan horses that do some nastiness when you run 'em. I suggest running it on a PC where you don't care about the files.

If it's an ISO file, you'll need an ISO program capable of writing a floppy (they're not popular anymore)

Try MagicIso.

www.magiciso.com
kingdragonfly (309)
1304942 2012-10-11 05:01:00 If it's a very old virus then your antivirus would have no excuse for not detecting it. Agent_24 (57)
1304943 2012-10-11 21:43:00 Notice I said "Trojan Horse", not a "virus". A trojan horse doesn't try to infect your PC; it just tries to do something unintended by the user like deleting all files.

en.wikipedia.org
kingdragonfly (309)
1304944 2012-10-11 23:38:00 Notice I said "Trojan Horse", not a "virus". A trojan horse doesn't try to infect your PC; it just tries to do something unintended by the user like deleting all files.

en.wikipedia.org

OK, Malware then. Regardless, Trojan horses are bad and people do not normally want them. It is the job of Antivirus software to detect and remove such programs.

Any decent antivirus program should be able to detect DOS-era malware, it's been around long enough, if they haven't got detections for it by now then the software is pathetic.
Agent_24 (57)
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