WineVDM & OTVDM - run win 16bit apps in W7, W8, W10

02k-guy

Pretty cool. 16bit apps on 64bit Windows.

With WineVDM, you initiate "otvdmw.exe", and select the 16bit app to run.

And OTVDM - it's supposed to be active all the time, and detect when you've selected a 16bit app and take over control.

Both are WINE ("Wine Is Not an Emulator"). Unfortunately for me, I've not been able to get OTVDM to work on my system - the install.inf kicks out “INF File You Selected Does not Support this Method of Installation” in Windows 10.

Latest WineVDM:
https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/0mi299se2e50j9u5/artifacts/otvdm-master-2445.zip

Latest OTVDM:
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases/download/v0.8.0/otvdm-v0.8.1.zip

Page with description and an INNO based nstaller:
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/otvdm.html
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/OtvdmSetup.exe

SomeGuy

Nice. Can it run Microsoft BOB?

I'm serious, the last time I tried BOB in Wine on Linux - quite some time ago -, it would not run at all. But BOB runs nicely on Windows 10-32bit.

02k-guy

Answer is yes. that's what it says here:
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=465161#p465161
caveat: "I installed Microsoft Bob on my Windows 7 machine. It complained about UTOPIA.DLL missing. The solution? Move everything out of C:\MSBOB\HOME and put it in C:\MSBOB. Worked just fine after that."

Im using it to run Borland Workshop.

02k-guy

Uploaded a short vid to one of my yewtoob channels. This is Windows 1.01 Paint on Windows 11 x64. OTVDM is now at v0.90, and steadily making progress.