Subj : Re: NXVDM project / walkthrough
To   : Nick Andre
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Feb 03 2020 05:27 pm

-=> On 02-02-20 22:32, Nick Andre wrote to All <=-

 NA> Everyone,

 NA> I forgot to mention, you can download this from my website. Its not
 NA> necessary to compile anything but it was tricky to hunt this down:

 NA> https://www.net229.org/misc/ntvdmx64.7z

Cool, this looks more promising. :)

 NA> Use WinRar or something to unzip to a temporary directory. I would
 NA> strongly recommend disabling UAC or run with Admin rights.

 NA> On Windows 10 it may be necessary to enable 16-bit application support
 NA> before installing. Try following these steps:

 NA> https://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-16-bit-application-support-windo
 NA> ws-10/

That doesn't make sense, because there's no 16 bit subsystem on 64 bit systems
to enable, until NXVDM is installed.  And I proved that by following the
instructions on this PC, where there is no NTVDM option (as expected on a 64
bit Windows OS).

 NA> On Windows Server 2012R2, 2016 and 2019, or if your Windows 10 has
 NA> issues with the above, then it may be necessary to enable 16-bit
 NA> application support in Group Policy (disable the prevention setting)
 NA> before installing NXVDM:

This one is there, however.  Group Policy is a bit more generic across Windows
versions. :)

 NA> Now at this point, if you have it all working, then we move on to where
 NA> I'm stuck at which is the Fossil driver stuff. NET2BBS / NETFOSS does
 NA> not appear to work on 64-bit Windows. It appears the DLL cannot be
 NA> found no matter where I try to place it. I have emailed the author, no
 NA> reply yet.  I strongly suspect that the NETFOSS.DLL has to be
 NA> recompiled for 64-bit.

Yes, I suspect you will need a 64 bit NETFOSS DLL. :)

 NA> Here is what I have succcesfully tested working on Windows Server 2019:

 NA> - D'Bridge
 NA> - Searchlight
 NA> - Renegade
 NA> - TBBS/Flame 2.3
 NA> - MakeNL and all 16-bit related archiver / compilers / Turbo Pascal
 NA> stuff

Cool! :)  I'll have a play later. :)


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