I had a couple of progs I couldn't let go and ran them through vmware.
You can get a 30 day trail license, its pretty expensive 399 I think but great SW. You can install an actual DOS (I can post the images if you like) inside the vmware session.....

rumour has it that the serial no for vmware is at alstalavista.box.sk or somewhere
This will allow you to kick off without rebooting to run the neural nw stuff.