From: larry_fosdick@hotmail.com   
      
   "Mike"  wrote in message   
   news:no-8A5332.21000405022007@news.supernews.com...   
   > 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   
      
   I don't have Vista yet (wasn't that impressed for the $$).  I have been   
   playing with VPC, too, on XP Pro.  It actually seems to work well.   
      
   Larry   
      
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