13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
5:30 a.m.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:44:58 -0500
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software
Something rather surreal in some regards, but which could be very
useful for quick hackish projects, is Visual Basic for MS-DOS.
It's not something Microsoft promoted for very long, but it was
out there and some of us grabbed a copy.
And yes, I do have the boxed Professional version. And what may
have been the only third-party book teaching how to code in it.
It's sort of cool- a completely text-mode version of Visual Basic
that you can develop code with on with a machine that only has an
MDA card. Like watching mpegs rendered to 'ASCII graphics'
(somebody actually coded that, btw.) It works almost identically
to Visual Basic 3.0 for Windows.
I still have my kits for Win3.1, win3.11 DOS5, DOS6.22, Norton
desktop and and useful software like Paradox4.5/dos,
Wordperfect suite, Procom, Norton commander and Norton
utilities/dos and a carload of other stuff. Most importantly a
Laptop (color-486/66) and desktop 486/66 that run
these.
Allison
I have some interesting apps and utilities like QEMM 7.5, FoxPro
2.0, Microsoft Professional Basic, etc and I still look around
for a cheap boxed copies of Visual Basic Pro 3.0, Norton
Desktop 2.x or later, Xtree Gold 4.0 Windows among others. Very
few people use Windows 3.1 era apps anymore and the programs of
that era tended to have full hardcopy manuals which I like. I
also have OS/2 1.1E, 2.1, 3.0 (blue and red spine), 3.0 connect,
and 4.0.
While you can find most of these apps on the internet in image
form, I find that they just sit around on a CD until I can find
the legit version with manuals and then I get interested in
using them. The only app I do want images for is Halo Desktop
Imager version 1.02.07, I purchased it new and still have the
manual but cannot find the disks anywhere.