12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
11:16 p.m.
Subject: Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software
From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:42:54 -0500
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
I have boxed versions of Desqview/X 1.0 and 2.0 and they are fun to play
around with on 386/486 machines. The bad part of DV/X is there are less
native apps (can't think of any other then DV/X enabled DOS programs for
BBS's) for it then OS/2.
Windows 3.1 lives on with some hobbyists (me anyway) because of the Apps and
hardware that was made for it. IF there are few native apps then the OS goes
to obscurity very fast.
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
12 Dec
12 Dec
11:44 p.m.
----- 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
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.
13 Dec
13 Dec
12:30 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.
12:48 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:30 AM
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.
http://www.qbcafe.net/english/index.html?dl_pages/compiler/index.html~qbc_m…
This link has a few libraries for QuickBasic and Visual Basic for DOS (and
if you dig around it has the VBDOS binaries). Visual Basic for DOS can do
real graphics just like QuickBasic can, the interface is just DOS based I
believe.
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