Improving the app distribution and providing a better user experience through MSIX In that case you need to run the following command: Notice that despite of Visual Basic 3 is available on Start menu, you can’t directly launch the app from there, as the app is 16-bit: There are no registry keys, and all the files will be copied to the C:\VB directory:ĭone!!!! Visual Basic is successfully installed:Ĭlick on Run Visual Basic 3.0 to launch VB3 on Windows 10 64-bit: Notice that now the Visual Basic 3.0 16-bit installer has been successfully launched: We need to run the otvdm.exe passing as argument the application that we want to launch, in our case, the setup.exe of Visual Basic 3.0:Ĭ:\otvdm-master-1846\otvdm.exe "C:\VB\VB.EXE" If you try to run the Visual Basic 3 installer (setup.exe), you will receive the following message telling that the application cannot run, since it is a 16-bit application and that the NTVDM is not available. Installing Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 IDE on Windows 10 64-bit I will extract the files in the following folder of the root of my C drive: Now, all you must do is to extract the files to a folder of your preference. If you opt to download the app from the AppVeyor repository, you need to choose what build you want:Īnd finally click on artifacts to download the artifact file: You can clone the repository and build yourself or download the build artifact from the AppVeyor repository This post is only a proof of concept and for informational and training purposes only and are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.Īs 64-bit operating system does not have support for the Windows NT DOS Virtual Machine (NTVM) system component, the first step is to download the 16-bit emulator called otya128 – winevdm that is open source and available on GitHub: Please notice that Microsoft recommends using virtualization or 32-bit machines to run 16-bit applications. It will be demonstrated how to use a third-part open source framework called otya128 – winevdm, how to use MSIX, UWP Execution Alias and Packaging Support Framework.
I wrote this post as a proof of concept and as a best effort to make a 16-bit application run on Windows 10 64-bit.
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