swatbat
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Ok one of the companies I know has a dos based program that they need to run. The problem is the new machine is a dell pentium d with no legacy ports. I have tried getting virtual pc to run the app but it doesn't find the pci parallel port so the program will not run(hardware lock). Anyway I am wondering if I make another partition and duel boot the machine with xp and dos I was under the impression that I would need dos drivers for the pci serial card and the pci parallell card. Am I right in thinking this as they are not onboard? It has been years and I mean years since I've worked with dos. In the same sence I'm thinking that if virtual pc could not pick up the parallel port(a driver was loaded in xp) that the chances of it working in dos are slim to none.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?