Yep I tried that and various different display.sys options

CW
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:21:43 
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..

Just a question -- did you make sure you loaded ansi.sys in your 
config.sys file?

I wonder if that may have had anything to do with it.

Chris Reeves wrote:
> Tried that :(  I give going back to dual boot :(
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:01:57 
> To:The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
> 
> What about VMWare running DOS?  That *should* work, although so should the 
> other options.
> 
> Julian
> 
> At 07:15 AM 6/1/2006, you wrote:
>> Ok, I have a client that is a hotel.  They have their entire accounting 
>> software package written in 1992 in GW Basic.  Because it was written by the 
>> person who owns the hotel, they refuse to switch.  Up until now, they have 
>> been "dual booting" between Windows98 and their software.  We would like to 
>> change that. 
>>
>> So, I made an image of their HDD, and put it in virtualPC, and DOSBox, 
>> etc... but their program never shows anything to the screen no matter what 
>> we try.. 
>>
>> Do I just need to give up and setup dual boot?
> 

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