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lakerben — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 21:43:40 GMT

Nice! Thanks steve!

Original Blog Entry: Old Programs - Windows 10

winsumloosesum — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:27:29 GMT

I found a program similar to DOSBox that will allow older programs to work on a Windows 10 64 bit machine.

The name of the program is called vDOS and it is completely free.

This website explains vDOS

https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-vdos-run-dos-programs-windows/

This is the website to download vDOS (FREE)

https://www.vdos.info/

I had some older lottery program such as the 1980's version of lottopro which ran on my older Windows XP machine and now using vDOS on my Windows 10 machine.

1 I installed vDOS on my C drive not the programs folder

2 Copy the folder of the old version of LottoPro into the vDOS folder

3 Open the vDOS folder and locate the vDOS.exe and double click to open

4 Enter the following: CD LottoPro (or the name of the folder of your older program) CD = Change Directory

5 Enter the the name of the exe file that opens the old LottoPro program in this example: lottopro.exe

6 The lottopro program should open in vDOS

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