not sure if its posted in the correct area but here goes.

I have a dozen or more 2 way maxon radios for motorcycle race marshalling. Also managed to get the programming software so I can programme new ones or re prog if conflicts with others.

My problem is the software is floppy disced and you download into dos as it was written pre windows and they never got round to updating. Ive tried xp, 98, 95, 3.1 based pcs but it will only run on the slowest 486 I still have with dos only on.
I had to get the 486 and install dos , but it means the pc is stored in the loft and wont work on my current monitor.

my question is , is there a dos emulator that works on windows xp, that wont over write the system and may cause problems. The included dos on the all programmes, accessories pop up will not work. It may possibly be the speed transfer that is a problem, the pc speed being higher than data transfer.

I hope this is clear enough !!

Hello Windy851,

I've had a bit of a poke around and think that this is waht you might be looking for.
Let us know how it goes

Hi Windy.

I love DOSBOX, I've used it many times to play games that I can't play anymore with windows XP.

I do however find it to be a right pain to configure time and time again.

I'm leaning toward recommending a Virtual Machine.

DosBOX is an example of a virtual machine, or maybe a virtual operating system environment. Essentially a good Virtual machine will run within windows and start pretty well like it's own computer. I've actually used a program called VMWare to have Windows 98 running from within XP.

Here's a free one made by Microsoft and designed to run MS Operating Systems.

MS Virtual Machine

VMware is not free software but I do recommend it if you don't mind paying for software to do this.

thanks, will have a look, what I'm concerned about is messing with what is at the moment a behaving system. One I looked at says it will write to system dos and may upset current settings so on your head be it so to speak.

Hi Windy,

The nice thing about the programs mentioned above is that they provide a nice secluded environment and are frequently used for testing software and configurations before they are used inan actual environment.