Detailed Beef NRC (1996, 2000) Software Modifications


December 2012
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No modifications or corrections were performed in the Beef
NRC (1996, 2000) software.

The Beef NRC (1996, 2000) software was originally developed
for Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) or Personal
Computer Disk Operating System (PC-DOS) of Intel x86
computers. Unfortunately, the software is incompatible with
newer operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, running on either
32-bit or 64-bit machines.

DOSBox is a software tool that emulates a full x86 PC with
sound and DOS capabilities
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/). Most MS-DOS or PC-
DOS (commonly referred to as "DOS") applications should run
in DOSBox, but the emphasis has been on getting DOS games to
run smoothly, which means that communication, networking, and
printer support are still in early development
(http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page). DOSBox also has a
DOS-like command prompt that is quite rudimentary and lacks
many of the features found in MS-DOS
(http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page), but it is adequate
for installing and running the Beef NRC (1996, 2000) model.

DOSBox is licensed under GNU General Public License version
2.0 (GPLv2) (http://sourceforge.net/directory/license:gpl/)
and it can be downloaded from SourceForge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/). The revised Beef
NRC (2012) software includes DOSBox 0.74 for PC x86 emulation
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/), and it is
installed automatically.

ATTENTION: Usually, DOSBox detects when a mouse is available.
When you click on the "DOS" screen the mouse should get
locked (confined to the DOSBox window) and work properly. If
the mouse does not work in the DOSBox environment, it will
need to be locked manually by pressing CTRL-F10. The CTRL-F10
command will also unlock the mouse and return mouse control
to the Windows environment.


Hyperlinks
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http://www.dosbox.com/DOSBoxManual.html
http://www.dosbox.com/
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/