From: no@where.man   
      
   In article <%mERg.204461$1i1.152067@attbi_s72>,   
    "Larry"  wrote:   
      
   > "Mike"  wrote in message   
   > news:12hdo1l4u5lol59@news.supernews.com...   
   > > "Knut Roll-Lund"  wrote in message   
   > > news:zMmdnf7WNMXVKovYnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@telenor.com...   
   > >>> I use DMK myself, never heard of HT1080Z.   But I have bad news, DMK   
   > >>> doesn't work under Windows Vista!   
   > >>   
   > >> Are you absolutely sure, how does it fail?   
   > >   
   > > Well, I'm as sure as I can be.   I can't get it to work, and I've tried   
   > > all of the compatibility settings.   It gives an "NTVDM encountered a hard   
   > > error" error message and gives you Close and Ignore buttons.   Clicking   
   > > Ignore just leaves you with a blank window.   
   > >   
   > > Mike   
   >   
   > Yep. I had that, too. Just installed Vista RC1, and it was no better.  NTVDM   
   > has been around since NT4.  It is a virtual machine environment for DOS   
   > programs.  I guess that Microsoft increased security and so constrained   
   > NTVDM that it won't let David's emulator get to hardware, even virtually.   
      
   Well, not to resurrect an old thread, but....   
      
   The reason the DMK emulator doesn't work in Vista is because DMK wants   
   to use DOS full screen mode, which does not work in Vista.   This issue   
   *may* be video card and/or driver dependent, because I have read reports   
   from some folks in the Windows Vista newsgroups who claim they can get a   
   DOS full screen in Vista.   I can not, and DMK absolutely will not run   
   in Vista on my machine.   
      
   However, there is a solution.   VPC 2007 is a free download from MS, and   
   will remain so after the Beta period.   Using VPC, I created a real DOS   
   6.2.2 virtual machine.   Then I used the "folder sharing" feature to   
   copy my DMK folder into the DOS virtual machine.   DMK runs fine in VPC.   
      
   The big advantage is that you can run the virtual machine in a Vista   
   window, and DMK thinks it's still running full screen, so you get a   
   TRS-80 in a window!    I have now made 3 copies of this virtual machine,   
   and set up the DOS autoexec.bat files to automatically load up a Model   
   1, 3 and 4.     It's nice to have all 3 running in windows in the   
   background.   
      
   Of course, you have no access to real TRS-80 floppy disks, but I just   
   boot real DOS (or Win 98 or Win ME floppy disks) to do that.   You need   
   to have your DMK stuff on a Fat32 drive in order to use it with DOS, but   
   I kept mine on a Fat32 drive for just this reason.   
      
   BTW, VPC is quite nice.   I have BeOS, OS/2, Windows 2000, Server 2003,   
   the Linux Distro Of The Month and my TRS-80s all in virtual machines   
   running under Vista.   
      
   Mike   
      
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