Success!
I was able to boot up an old Win98 VM (hadn't been used since 2016) and
copy the
CHOICE.COM from there. It seems to have pretty much the same
functionality as the one in Win7.
A couple of strange things I noticed when running this
CHOICE.COM under XP
(in a CMD window):
1) The first time I ran it on XP, it took a long time (maybe 15-30 seconds)
to start up. I was panicked for a bit 'cause I thought it may have
crashed the machine. Anyway, I assume it was loading some 16 bit
subsystem in XP. After that first time, though, it runs fine
(launches right up).
2) It changes my prompt to something weird with ~s in it (i.e.,
everything gets forced to 8.3 conventions). cd'ing to %homepath%
fixes this, so no worries... Still jarring to the eye, though.
A couple of other notes:
1) Still wondering how/why they left this out of XP...
(They must have realized the error of omission when they put Win7 together)
2) In case anyone was wondering, the reason the Win7 version doesn't
work under XP is that it (the Win7 version) is a 64 bit executable.
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