4 Jan
2005
4 Jan
'05
12:18 p.m.
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:
"Phar Lap err 74: Can't use -REALBREAK under this version of DPMI"
So I Google that and found a few threads like this one:
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=314
Apparently it's just not possible to run Acad 12 in 'real' DOS in XP. I
already knew XP's prompt is nothing close to real DOS, but I was hoping to
find
a way to trick the program, or a way to emulate DOS
perhaps. Anyone have a
clever solution to this?
What about using Partition Magic or something similar to create a DOS or
Windows 3.11 partition and running Autocad from that?
Joe