[Ham-Computers] Flash drives, DOS, etc

[Philip]

Hi All,

I've been reading the various posts about booting with Virtual machines, 
flash drives etc. with some interest.

I have one old radio program (Radio-Raft) which is a multi-mode decoder 
program that I would like to use.  It's a very good multi-mode program that 
runs under DOS or the earlier versions of windows-95, etc.  No matter how 
you tweak it, it WILL NOT run under Win-XP (even the author of the program 
admits this).  People have tried, but it just won't work.  The only other 
programs on the market that does all this one will AND run under WinXP are 
in the multi-hundred dollar category (Skysweeper etc.), out of my reach.

I have an old NEC laptop Pentium here running Win95 that I was going to put 
the program on.  The machine runs well, has a decent hard-drive for it's age 
and the required serial port to run it, but it's early color display is 
rather dim and is hard on my eyes during extended use.  I got it to enable 
use of my logging programs etc. in "portable" use and for that it's fine.

I DO still have my old DOS 6 disk set.  I wonder if it's possible to use a 
flash drive as a virtual machine UNDER Win-XP and set it up with DOS 6, 
while still running other apps in WinXP. To be honest, this doesn't sound 
do-able to me as it seems like you'd be running two OS's at the same time, 
but then I'm no expert either.  If not then I'll just set the program up on 
the Win95 machine and forget it (though it'd mean running two computers 
simultaneously on an already cluttered listening bench).

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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