Comments on: Idling under MS-DOS 4.01 & Windows 3.0 https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/07/03/idling-under-ms-dos-4-01-windows-3-0/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 30 Jul 2018 02:34:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/07/03/idling-under-ms-dos-4-01-windows-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-703 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:46:41 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1146#comment-703 Thanks!

That certainly did it, a combination of ‘idle’ from Virtual PC 2004’s MS-DOS extensions, and the VXD let’s me fire up 4 synchronet nodes without issue. Granted synchronet also has the ability to do some dos idle code as well but it’s WAY better behaved running it in the base MS-DOS. I was thinking for some reason it’d run better in each VM, but that didn’t work so well..

I’ll have to mess around with it some more, but my latest experiment is adding stacker into the mix.

]]> By: Michal Necasek https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/07/03/idling-under-ms-dos-4-01-windows-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-701 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:40:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1146#comment-701 The VxD most likely only works for Windows applications. For DOS apps to support idling under Windows, a POWER.EXE equivalent must be loaded and effective before Windows is loaded. And then the DOS app you’re running must support idling implicitly or explicitly. If it sits in a tight loop and polls some registers or whatever, the power management software is foiled.

]]> By: Lorenzo https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/07/03/idling-under-ms-dos-4-01-windows-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:44:52 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=1146#comment-698 http://www.japheth.de/Download/DOS/DOSIDLE.zip

Works in VPC with 4.01.

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