Comment by lmm

Comment by lmm 3 days ago

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> you can still run 16-bit apps on 64-bit builds of Windows via third party emulators, such as DOSBox and NTVDMx64.

Or Wine, which is less reliable but funnier.

ale42 2 days ago

Do you mean winevdm? https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

Wine itself doesn't run on Windows AFAIK.

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  • lmm 2 days ago

    > Wine itself doesn't run on Windows AFAIK.

    It does, if you use an old enough version of windows that SUA is available :). I never managed to get fontconfig working so text overlapped its dialogue boxes and the like, but it was good enough to run what I needed.

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  • davidgerard 2 days ago

    Wine ran sort-of-fineish in WSL v1 and I'm pretty sure it'll run perfectly in WSL v2 (which is just a VM).

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    • ale42 2 days ago

      True, but at this point you're basically doing Windows-on-Linux-on-Windows. But why not anyway... applications will anyway run way faster than on the hardware they were originally thought for.

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      • davidgerard a day ago

        The real prize is running Win16 apps on 64-bit Windows.

        Mind you, Wine might lose that too ...

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