On 05/01/2016 12:36 PM, Dave Wade wrote:
  This is a common problem. I think Win9X would be fine
if you don't
 need network connectivity. You could also use one of the OS/2
 releases with Windows support, or Linux with Wine but when I tried
 these for some Access 2.1 code they didn't work well... 
WINE (AFAIK) *still* doesn't support 16-bit executables and the
attempted integration with DOSBOX leaves a lot to be desired.  It could
well be that some parts of the VB4 application are 16-bit PM.
VirtualBox might be a pretty good alternative.
--Chuck