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HX DOSXtender - and Win 16 graphical apps, possible ? (DOSX)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 21.04.2008, 17:48

> Hi ! I'm a very new adept, and this is my first message to the forum.

Hi!

> So, my guess is there is no support for Win 16 GUI executables, is this
> right ?

"no support" is a bit harsh, I'd prefer "virtually no support". Because, at least, there is the DOSX.EXE somewhere buried in HXRT, which allows to run Win3.1 on machines where the original DOSX.EXE fails.

There's some support for the NE file format, which is the format used by Win16 binaries, but that's just because it's the ONLY somewhat popular 16-bit format for protected-mode.

> Any known way to run those in DOS either with HX or some other system ?

IIRC there was a (free?) WinOS/2 which did run in DosEmu...

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Complete thread:

• HX DOSXtender - and Win 16 graphical apps, possible ? - Ninho, 21.04.2008, 17:15
  • Signature - rr, 21.04.2008, 17:25
  • HX DOSXtender - and Win 16 graphical apps, possible ? - Japheth, 21.04.2008, 17:48
    • HX DOSXtender - and Win 16 graphical apps, possible ? - Ninho, 21.04.2008, 20:49
    • HX DOSXtender - and Win 16 graphical apps, possible ? - Steve, 21.04.2008, 21:38