But my guess is that, if you can find a copy of DOS, you should be able to run one of the modern virtual machine programs with DOS installed as the OS and as Paul mentioned, if you create a folder in the virtual machine, and then copy your WP diskettes into that folder, you should be able to install/run everything from there. I don’t know anything about DOSBox or the virtual floppy technologies you mentioned. In other words, I don’t believe that there were ever any hidden files that got left behind when I copied from one diskette to the other. Later, I copied the 5-1/4″ floppy disks to 3-1/2″ disks (four fit on one), and I don’t recall ever having a problem using the 3-1/2″ disks. I used WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS extensively. It will be a bit more challenging, but possible, for 5-1/4″ disks: This is assuming that your disks are 3-1/2″. You can then simply run WP from the floppy drive. You could get an external USB floppy drive really cheap:

Yes, I’ve visited Ed Mendelson’s site WordPerfect for DOS Updated but have not been able to find any information on this process. VHD files from files loaded on a hard drive and then using those files to install from Virtual Floppy Drive into DOSBox? This looks like one of the more interesting projects I have stumbled across in a while. I don’t know whether this is possible or whether I’ve identified the right tools.ĭoes anyone have experience creating. To use Virtual Floppy Drive to load the “diskettes” as floppy drives, I need to package the files into. The floppies themselves are long gone, but I still have my WP51 installation code. I was not sufficiently sophisticated at the time (circa 1993) to look for hidden files that might not copy directly from the disks. I simply used the copy command to copy the files from the floppies to separate directories on the hard drive and the burned the resulting directories to CD. Many years ago, I burned the contents of each installation floppy disk to CD-ROM and have migrated those files to newer media over the years. I had a long and happy relationship with WP51 for DOS and am suffering from a nostalgic desire to install it inside DOSBox on Win7.

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