OS Support
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MetSim is a DOS program written in (Borland) Pascal. 
It is a 16 bit binary that will not run under 64 bit OS versions of Windows XP, VISA and Windows 7
In order to still run the software under these OS, you can do the following:

* download the DOS emulator dosbox, e.g. from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox0.74-win32-installer.exe/download
* install and start the DOS emulator
* read the intro by (optional) by typing: intro
* mount you local directory that contains the metsim software (e.g. c:\metsim): mount c c:\metsim
* increase the CPU cycles with CTRL-F12 (you may need to increase it to over 30.000 cycles)
* switch to the right keyboard configuration, e.g. german (optional): keyb gr
* switch with Alt-Enter to full screen (optional)
* go to the metsim directory and start metsim

The startup can be automated in the following way:
* copy the dosbox.conf file to the metsim directory and edit it (e.g. 30000 cycles and german keyboard layout)
cycles=30000
keyboardlayout=gr
* create a shortcut with the following command
"c:\program files (x86)\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe" "c:\metsim\metsim.exe" -conf c:\metsim\dosbox.conf -noconsole -fullscreen -exit

In case of questions, please, contact sirko@molau.de