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

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Sun May 1 13:31:03 CDT 2016


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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