NewViews works on Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7
NewViews for DOS (NV1) runs on Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7 and any Windows 16/32-bit version that Microsoft has released in the last 20 years.
DOS NewViews on the "NT" platform is not dead. Today NV1 runs better on XP than on the original MS-DOS platform.
One of the reasons that the Windows NT platform is more stable than Windows 95, 98 and ME is that it does not allow an
application to access the hardware directly.
All calls a program makes for disk, memory and screen access must be passed to the operating system first, which in
turn manages the call.
NV1 follows Microsoft's recommendations for DOS. If an MS-DOS program is written to follow Microsoft's guidelines from the early '80s it will continue to work today. Programs such as Lotus's 1-2-3 for DOS that directly access the disk and screen (for speed purposes) will not run under Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, etc.
However Vista and Windows 7 do pose a challenge when printing from NewViews for DOS. Your experience may vary. If your computer has Vista or Windows 7 it is most likely a new computer without a parallel port. Please read, frustrated printing with NV1 for more information.
NV1 can not run directly on Windows XP 64, Vista 64 or Windows 7 64.
However, using a virtualization solution (DOSBox, VirtualPC, VMWare, whatever) on your 64-bit host and running a legacy operating system in the child VM is a viable solution.
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The initial release of NV2 is strictly for Windows. Windows 2000, Windows XP, XP 64, 2003, Vista, Vista 64, Windows 7, Windows 7 64 and later versions. The architecture of NV2 is such that it can be ported to other platforms with minimal difficulty.
Update - Windows 7 64 bit and NV1
NewViews has been tested on new computers with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit operating systems.
We downloaded and installed DOSBox from SourceForge.net.
DOSBox emulates a full x86 pc with DOS.
NV1 runs fine and DOSBox can even be tweaked to run NV1 in full screen mode.
DOSBox at this time does not support printing .
There are two reasons to use NV1 on a Windows 64 bit platform;
- To convert to NV2, this allows ATyping and exporting of NV1 data.
- To view archived data in NV1 format.