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Triggered by a compatibility rant... Proudly presenting (drum roll)... Visicalc!

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  • L Lost User

    Any luck on 64bit OS's?

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    Michel Godfroid
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    Nah, they don't have the 16-bit VDM anymore :-(. You'll have to install a VM... 64-bit Linux should run it though X|

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    • M Michel Godfroid

      http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm[^]

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      Xiangyang Liu
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      Here are my preferences, they require no electricity and work in any harsh environment today: One[^] Two[^] :-D

      My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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      • M Michel Godfroid

        Nah, they don't have the 16-bit VDM anymore :-(. You'll have to install a VM... 64-bit Linux should run it though X|

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        Lost User
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        64-bit linux .. run a COM program? I am surprised. How would they even switch to 16bit mode?

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          Here are my preferences, they require no electricity and work in any harsh environment today: One[^] Two[^] :-D

          My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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          Michel Godfroid
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          Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:

          One[^]

          Wow, this is from the 1958 world expo in Brussels. My mom used to tell me I visited this in a pram. Can't remember it though :-(

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          • L Lost User

            64-bit linux .. run a COM program? I am surprised. How would they even switch to 16bit mode?

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            Michel Godfroid
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            Virtualising an 8086 is not really hard (the bleeding thing had no registers to speak off). I'll test it and come back to you... :-) Now excuse me while I get a life.

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            • M Michel Godfroid

              Virtualising an 8086 is not really hard (the bleeding thing had no registers to speak off). I'll test it and come back to you... :-) Now excuse me while I get a life.

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              Lost User
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              Any luck?

              Michel Godfroid wrote:

              Virtualising an 8086 is not really hard

              Well I dunno, ever tried to write an emulator for it? Calculating the flags is a pain.. and to go through that just to support a bunch of old programs that no one uses? Ok maybe

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              • L Lost User

                Any luck?

                Michel Godfroid wrote:

                Virtualising an 8086 is not really hard

                Well I dunno, ever tried to write an emulator for it? Calculating the flags is a pain.. and to go through that just to support a bunch of old programs that no one uses? Ok maybe

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                Michel Godfroid
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                You would'nt believe what the amount of pain open source guys can stand.

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                • M Michel Godfroid

                  http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm[^]

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                  Gregory Gadow
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                  What you are triggering is post-tramatic stress disorder. X|

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                  • X Xiangyang Liu

                    Here are my preferences, they require no electricity and work in any harsh environment today: One[^] Two[^] :-D

                    My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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                    Gregory Gadow
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                    And the very tried and true: Three[^]

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                    • M Michel Godfroid

                      Virtualising an 8086 is not really hard (the bleeding thing had no registers to speak off). I'll test it and come back to you... :-) Now excuse me while I get a life.

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                      Michel Godfroid
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                      Haven't got a single X64 Linux lying around anymore, and building one just for this sounds like overkill. But DOSEMU version 1.4.0 has an X64 version, which uses emulation for real 86 mode, and runs DPMI code natively.

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                      • X Xiangyang Liu

                        Here are my preferences, they require no electricity and work in any harsh environment today: One[^] Two[^] :-D

                        My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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                        Bernhard Hiller
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                        Number Two reminds me on my first visit to Elbonia - ehm Lithuania - back in 1992. When I was about to pay a bill somewhere, they calculated the sum with that thing quite quickly (I hope correctly...) and then showed me that thing, which I could not read....

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