Slightly OT: DOS programs in Win XP

[Dr. Ido]

At 08:58 PM 1/3/05 -0800, you wrote:
>A while ago I asked if anyone on the list could help me get AutoCAD 12 for
DOS.
> Several people came through and I now have a copy.  Thanks, everyone!
>
>As expected though, it doesn't work and play nicely with Windows XP.  I was
>hoping that just running it through a command prompt window and giving that
>giving the Win 95 compatibility attribute to the acad.exe file would make it
>work.  It didn't and I got a strange error message:

Have you tried Virtual PC or any of the other emulators?  Most of the stuff
that I haven't been able to run in a Windows DOS box runs okay under DOS on
Virtual PC.  The only real exception I've found is "Divide by Zero" and
other cache related problems.