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netham45 · May 19th, 2008

Well, there is a rather logical explanation to that. Dosbox is meant to emulate DOS, not the NT Kernel, which it doesn't know how to deal with 100%. Dosbox can, however emulate up to Windows ME(including 98,95,3.1,etc...) it just can't emulate the newer NT based OSes, such as Windows 2000,XP,Vista,etc...

Remember, dosbox is made to emulate games from the 1990's, so there is a rather logical reason it can't emulate an OS based off of a kernel it is unfamiliar with that's nearly a decade older than most programs it is targeted at.

Remember, BOCHS, VMWare, QEMU all emulate newer OSes fine, because they actually emulate the hardware properly.

May 19th, 2008	#6 (permalink)
netham45 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: denver Posts: 3	Well, there is a rather logical explanation to that. Dosbox is meant to emulate DOS, not the NT Kernel, which it doesn't know how to deal with 100%. Dosbox can, however emulate up to Windows ME(including 98,95,3.1,etc...) it just can't emulate the newer NT based OSes, such as Windows 2000,XP,Vista,etc... Remember, dosbox is made to emulate games from the 1990's, so there is a rather logical reason it can't emulate an OS based off of a kernel it is unfamiliar with that's nearly a decade older than most programs it is targeted at. Remember, BOCHS, VMWare, QEMU all emulate newer OSes fine, because they actually emulate the hardware properly. Last edited by netham45; May 19th, 2008 at 13:08. Reason: adding stuff