User:Santamoly/Vdos

vDOS

vDos is a Windows program to run 16-bit DOS applications in 32 or 64-bit Windows systems such as Windows XP/7/8/10. vDOS is similar to DOSbox with the additional ability to access all hardware devices, ports, TTF fonts, via the Windows operating system

vDOS is available for free download under the GNU General Public License. Users on Sourceforge have been able to get vDOS running on OS X, although this is not officially listed as a vDOS ability.

vDOS is able to run multiple DOS applications, each with its own specific configuration; each can print to Windows-only (GUI) printers, or to virtual printers for producing PDF output. The file system of the DOS application is in sync with that of Windows, with no internal disk-caching leading to corrupted files. vDOS offers a replacement of traditional Config.sys and Autoexec.sys files by similar config.txt and autoexec.txt files. Network support is built-in with file-and record locking. Users are able to copy/paste text from Windows to DOS and vice versa; even translation of localized text is available.