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On DOS, if you borrow ReactOS' NTVDM under XP/2003 and Maybe Vista/7 under 32 bit (IDK about 64 bit binaries), you can run DOS games in a much better way than Windows' counterpart.


Afaik due to POPF not trapping Reactos implemented NTVDM as a software emulator.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170723164052/http://community.... https://web.archive.org/web/20151216085857/http://community....

At this point you might as well use DOSBOX.

Intel Protected Mode POPF fail:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/adm...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160411-00/?p=93...


I think they recently improved NTVDM a lot.




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