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Offline jknilinux

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« on: January 12, 2010, 12:00:36 AM »
Hey everyone,

Since DB works in windows 98, and I heard it's POSSIBLE to work in win95, could DB run in DOS? How about FreeDOS?

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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 12:04:35 AM »
If you want to try this on a normal PC, try using DOSBox.
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 02:26:30 AM »
Probably not, but you could give it a shot.

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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 12:44:33 PM »
What about the GUI? Could DB run in a command-line only environment?

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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 02:57:42 PM »
DB2's GUI runs through the VB6 runtime libraries, which hook in to MFC I think.  So there might be some way to stub those GUI calls so they noop, but I've never tried anything like that before.  I'm not sure how you'd get it to work.

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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 04:12:31 PM »
Is this in any way relevant? Are you trying to link up an ancient computer to your evosim, otherwise it would seem a lot of trouble for a small payoff.
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