OT: Ideas for running a VB4 application on modern hardware?

Mike Whalen mikew at thecomputervalet.com
Sun May 1 14:08:27 CDT 2016


Bill,

I don’t have the source. It’s a custom app written a long time ago by an
organization that no longer exists.

Thanks.

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 1:31 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:

> VB4 is what, mid 90s?  How about you upgrade the code?
>
> Bill Degnan
> twitter: billdeg
> vintagecomputer.net
> On May 1, 2016 1:29 PM, "Mike Whalen" <mikew at thecomputervalet.com> wrote:
>
> > I can’t really tell if this is on-topic, but there’s [no|some|much] shame
> > in trying?
> >
> > I have a Visual Basic 4 application that I need to run on modern 64-bit
> > hardware I can do this in a VM, but I really need this VM to be wicked
> > small, like under a gig. The smallest XP VM I’ve seen is 600MB (which
> might
> > be good) but XP is becoming very hard to source these days.
> >
> > I am bummed that there doesn’t seem to be something like vDOS or DOSBOX
> for
> > VB applications. Or… maybe there is?
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might go about doing this?
> >
> > m
> >
>


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