I am still trying to get some old door games to play through synchronet. They are 16 bit and I am using 64 bit windows 10. Dosbox-x lets me play them locally. I hear ntvdmx64 works better and may allow them to work on windows 10 64 bit. I cannot seem to download them with out a slew of problems from windows warnings ⚠️ and antivirus going nuts. Is this program or programs available on any your bbs’s? Any tips on set up? I am still experimenting with dosbox x. I keep inching closer with all your help. Thanks.

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Re: Ntvdmx64 woes
By: Rixter to All on Tue Jun 04 2024 12:22 pm

locally. I hear ntvdmx64 works better and may allow them to work on windows 10 64 bit. I cannot seem to download them with out a slew of problems from windows warnings � and antivirus going nuts. Is this program or programs available
on any your bbs's? Any tips on set up? I am still experimenting with dosbox x. I keep inching closer with all your help. Thanks.

if you download bbs dosbox on vert there's examples.

regardless, i'm not a fan of ntvdm64. it's just a hack that will break eventually. something screwed up with my install of it.

just run a 32 vm on vmware. it's free now too.
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Re: Ntvdmx64 woes
By: Rixter to All on Tue Jun 04 2024 12:22 pm

I am still trying to get some old door games to play through synchronet. They are 16 bit and I am using 64 bit windows 10. Dosbox-x lets me play them locally. I hear ntvdmx64 works better and may allow them to work on windows 10 64 bit. I cannot seem to download them with out a slew of problems from windows warnings � and antivirus going nuts. Is this program or programs available
on any your bbs's? Any tips on set up?

Ignore/disable/skip the Windows warnings about NTVDMx64 being a virus. It's not. You can still download and install it, just fine.

I am still experimenting with dosbox
x. I keep inching closer with all your help. Thanks.

dosbox and its forks (e.g. dosbos-x) are not useful for running BBS doors. At minimum, multinode doors won't see each other's files and be able to share data in real time.
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Re: Ntvdmx64 woes
By: Rixter to All on Tue Jun 04 2024 12:22 pm

I am still trying to get some old door games to play through synchronet.

This is the wrong conference for Synchronet support questions.
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Re: Ntvdmx64 woes
By: MRO to Rixter on Tue Jun 04 2024 02:46 pm

just run a 32 vm on vmware. it's free now too.

Or Hyper-V. It's part of Windows.
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I have dosbox x and get the old doors to work fine locally. I keep hearing you Gus mention virtual machines, not sure how to set one up. I cannot find any file named ntvdmx64 out there, the zip I got of it was just a bunch of what appeared to be folders. Is that correct or is it an executable file or installer? I am really new to this virtual stuff and would love to see working examples. I will move this to discussion instead of sysop only. Thanks.

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Re: Ntvdmx64 woes
By: Rixter to MRO on Wed Jun 05 2024 12:21 pm

I have dosbox x and get the old doors to work fine locally. I keep hearing you Gus mention virtual machines, not sure how to set one up. I cannot

Setting up a VM is just a matter of downloading some VM software (such as VMWare or VirtualBox), running it, and creating a virtual machine with it to install Windows (32-bit).. Also, Windows does have Hyper-V, which lets you do the same thing.

Installing Hyper-V on Windows 10:
https://shorturl.at/u59lm
Full URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start /enable-hyper-v

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Re: Ntvdmx64 woes
By: Rixter to MRO on Wed Jun 05 2024 12:21 pm

I have dosbox x and get the old doors to work fine locally. I keep hearing you Gus mention virtual machines, not sure how to set one up. I cannot find any file named ntvdmx64 out there, the zip I got of it was just a bunch of what appeared to be folders. Is that correct or is it an executable file or installer?

Yes, and in those folders are .bat files.

Since you're running the USA distro of Windows 10 (I assume), you'd run the usa/isntall.bat to install it.

I am really new to this virtual stuff and would love to see
working examples.

Virtual Machines. Read up on Hyper-V. It's part of Windows and lets you run Guest OSes, including 32-bit flavors of Windows along-side your primary (64-bit) Windows host OS.
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