Re: MS Windows 7 and DOS games/apps
  By: Donald Tidmore to Sean Dennis on Sat Nov 28 2009 11:29 pm

 > I am wondering if anyone knows details yet on what Windows 7 WILL let you
 > do in DOS command windows, and what it WON'T let you do.  Specifically, can
 > one run door games like DOS LORD on a system running MS Windows 7?  Can you
 > run old programs for business applications that some of us might still use,
 > such as DBASE III+, Supercalc, Wordstar, or Wordperfect?

32-bit versions of Windows 7 will run all of the above just fine.

 > I know I heard a long time ago, 4 or so years, from Daryl Stout that Vista
 > was completely lousy about support of DOS programs like the LORD game.

That's not true.

 > Since Win7 is built like Vista as a 32-bit O.S. all the way, how is it
 > about running 16-bit DOS applications or 16-bit Windows apps that might
 > date back to Win95 or that were designed for WinXP?

Just fine. It's the 64-bit versions of Windows that have issues with 16-bit DOS
apps.

                                            digital man

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