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Hi,
I am using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition on Windows 2000.
What project type do I choose for creating a true DOS application, that can run for instance when the system is booting?
I have tried Win32 Console Application but it fails to execute within DOS. When I am refering to DOS I am talking about "TRUE" DOS, not simply a console window in Windows.
Thank you very much in advance.
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Last time I checked their wasn't really a 'DOS' anymore. Microsoft has pretty much gotten rid of that. So unless you still have a copy of MS-Dos ver (whatever the latest version before Win '95 was) I believe it was 6.22, you never really enter the dos environment. When you choose to 'reboot' in msdos you actually are just running the console in full screen. As per writing a program that runs when your system starts you'll have to use some assembly to do that efficiently. Pretty much what you due is put a pointer in the boot sector which references your program. Now mind you this is not the job for the faint of heart.
shutup traveller.
anyway, Visual C++ does not compile DOS. It only compiles windows applications and console.
DOS programs can be ran on windows, but with sound gone and some 3d garbage.
In order to compile a DOS program, you need a DOS Compiler. Borland C++ 3.1 is DOS, and so is gcc.
http://www.angelfire.com/linux/xterria/Borland.zip
That's not very nice. By the way I wasn't being condencending. The specific question was, as I read it, writing a program that ran while the computer was booting. This however is not a 'true' dos environment and I was simply trying to point that out. If I was sounding like a jackass I post my apologies for all to see.
lol sorry :p
I'm pretty sure you're in a true DOS environment when the computer is booting. No matter what OS you have loaded on.
Are we talking DOS, like DOS 6.22 with Windows ver 3.11? Or are we talking DOS like Disk Opertaing System?(Again just a question, not trying to be a jackass or anything :) )
DOS is a 16-bit operating system, a Win32 Console Application is 32-bit and CANNOT be run in DOS.Quote:
I have tried Win32 Console Application but it fails to execute within DOS.
ok uhm 32-bits dont work on a true 16-bit system...
32 is greater than 16, hence your bit sizes are not matched...
16 is not supported anymore, and you would need to use a borland compiler to do it. (or another supported 16 bit compiler).