Running DOS 6.22 In VirtualBox

[DragonHeart335]

Hi. I am new to this site. I am a programmer who has been messing with this stuff since my first computer when I was 'but a youth', a Timex Sinclair with a Z80 chip. lol. I now have a wonderful laptop with a nice quad core i7 chip, Win 8.1, 1TB of HD space, 12 GB RAM, etc. And I have installed VirtualBox and muddled my way through installing DOS 6.22. I managed to get my mouse working. I got 4DOS installed and actually got DESQview working as well. I also found an old copy of Turbo C 2.01 and then Borland C++ 3.1 (much better ). Anyhow, it has been fun revisiting the old software and honing my C/C++ skills.

Is this site only for batch programming? Or is this topic ok here? I do have a lot of questions about improving my DOS installation in the VM including folder sharing with the host system, network connectivity, etc. I have installed openSUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux as well and these OS's work very well in VB. But DOS seems to be running in never-never land and things like accessing host NTFS file systems, accessing network resources, etc. seem to be void from its being. lol.

Anyhow, anyone else do this?

[foxidrive]

DosTips is more focused on batch files and scripting.

Maybe some people here can help with MSDOS scripting, but networking/dragging MSDOS kicking-and-screaming into the present age is not really the aim of the site.

I do have MSDOS V6.22 in a Virtualbox VM but I'm not crazy enough to want to use it full time.

[Ed Dyreen]

Hi, I have DOS 6.22 running on an i386 and have access and can mount shared folders on the host.