Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
What about VMWare Player (free), and a Freedos virtual machine (or MS dos, etc). Harry Chris Reeves wrote: Small space. We may go back to Dual-Booting ;) We were just trying to slick it up so they could run their credit-check software that they run on new applicants. It's corporate living, so they wanted both up at once. At this point, I may just go back and allow for Dual-Boot and call it good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeuser Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:21 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything.. What was wrong with dual booting? Have they considered a separate pc for the software? CW 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?
Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
Yep I tried that and various different display.sys options CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:21:43 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List 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 :( > > > Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless > > -Original Message- > From: Julian Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:01:57 > To:The Hardware List > 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? >
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 :( Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Julian Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:01:57 To:The Hardware List 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?
Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
Tried that :( I give going back to dual boot :( Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Julian Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:01:57 To:The Hardware List 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?
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?
RE: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
Small space. We may go back to Dual-Booting ;) We were just trying to slick it up so they could run their credit-check software that they run on new applicants. It's corporate living, so they wanted both up at once. At this point, I may just go back and allow for Dual-Boot and call it good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeuser Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:21 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything.. What was wrong with dual booting? Have they considered a separate pc for the software? CW 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? > -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
Re: [H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
What was wrong with dual booting? Have they considered a separate pc for the software? CW 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? -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
[H] Tricky one: GWBasic under.. anything..
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?
