How to open .pif files with DOSBox?

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uhmm I am trying to open a .Pif file with DOSBox, currently I am running windows 7 and when I try to open the shortcut it says the following:

The version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit)or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.

so what can I do?
or is there any other program I can use to open it?
thanks.

Posted 1-Jul-13 5:29am

appleduardo

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jul-13 11:34am

Where did you get "DOS"? None of the modern OS have such thing as "DOS box"...
Do you mean CMD.EXE? This is not a "DOS box", not even close.

Your problem is unrelated to "opening" (what is it?!). You have incompatible .PIF that's it. You could at least show the file instead...
—SA

appleduardo 1-Jul-13 19:56pm

dosbox is a program used to run "programs" based on MSDOS, :p

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jul-13 21:11pm

Gosh, no, no way. There is no such thing. I asked it you mean CMD.EXE. Why would you ignore my question?
—SA

RedDk 1-Jul-13 12:21pm

There's no real good answer to this question. But if you're up to exploring stuff, try downoading a program called "frhed". It's a hex-editor.

http://frhed.sourceforge.net/

I started a project way back when, to read .pif. But my approach, eventually using a hex-editor and DEBUG command (MSDOS 6.1) to "alter" the binary, quickly evolved into a bad landing. Take my word for it, skip the .pif pan fire.

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Valery Possoz · Answer 1 · 2013-07-01T11:52:00

Hello,

The program you are trying to use is to old to work on any current Windows version. I'm not sure if Pif is supported anymore, but anyway Pif is just a shortcut to another program. Double click on the pif file won't open it, but you can open this program directly in any dos emulator.

So... Install a Dos emulator, let say DosBox (http://www.dosbox.com/[^])

Once you have DosBox running you must enable access to your disk drive, to do this use the Mount command:

Z:\>MOUNT C C:\OLDDOS
Drive C mounted as local directory C:\OLDDOS\

Then you just start the program as you would have done 20 years ago by typing it's name at the prompt:

For example:

C: <enterkey>
Qbasic.exe <enterkey>

Etc...

Valery.