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Re: [sdpd] Crysfire
Yes. I personally prefer to pin the shortcuts in the start menu, but yes,
you can start the XP mode application from a shortcut on the desktop. Just
don't ask me how to set them work like this. The only suggestion is Read The
F***** Manual :)). That's what I did ;)
Best regards,
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Henry Barwood <hbarwood...@troycable.net>wrote:
> **
>
>
> I'm curious. I have several programs that I run using Virtual XP, but I
> have
> to start them from within the XP shell. When you say they can be called
> from
> the W7 environment, do you mean they can be called from a desktop shortcut
> from within W7? I've not had much success doing this with my programs.
>
> Henry L. Barwood, PhD
> Professor, Earth and Space Science
> Department of Chemistry and Physics
> MSCX 312G
> Troy University
> Troy, Alabama 36082
> USA
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> From: sdpd...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sdpd...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Thomas
> Kerestedjian
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:40 PM
> To: sdpd...@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [sdpd] Crysfire
>
> I have no experience with CRYSFIRE, but I understand that your main problem
> is with 32 bit executables. Windows 7 Pro has a special XP mode. It is not
> in the distributable, but has to be added from the Microsoft site. All of
> my
> older 32 bit and even DOS programs work well in it. The good thing is that
> once set up in XP mode, one does not have to switch to this mode every time
> he needs the 32bit program. It can be called from within the regular Win7
> environment.
>
> Success,
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Daniel M. Toebbens <
> Daniel.Toebbens...@helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > This is a late follow-up to an older discussion I found in the archives.
> > The gist:
> > CRYSFIRE does not run under Windows 7 anymore, which does not support
> > 16 bit software even in compatibility mode. The proposed solution on
> > this list has been DOSBox, http://www.dosbox.com/, and it has been
> > reported back that CRYSFIRE does indeed run under DOSBox. However,
> > when I tried this, all the older sub-programs, which do the actual
> > indexing, indeed run properly. However, the main software, which does
> > the merging and formatting of the results for CHEKCELL does not work:
> > CRYSFIRE.BAT crashes from illegal commands, CFmain is 32 bit and does
> > not run, and
> > CFmain16 only calls one indexing sub-program and exits afterwards. Did
> > anybody do an actual successful indexing run with CRYSFIRE under DOSBox?
> > And is willing to share the correct way to set this up?
> >
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