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C&G DOS
Has anyone figured how to run C&G dos in Windows 7 or later?
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If you like C&G why not get the Windows version.
My Windows 7 still has a command prompt, where I run can run SMI, but I have an SMI shortcut on my desltop. Install C&G folder directly on the “C” drive, not in the Programs folder.
Paul in PA
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Yes, but Wowwww! That seems like a really long time ago.
I know at least one person still using C&G Survey DOS version, inside Windows 7 or 10.
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Has anyone figured how to run C&G dos in Windows 7 or later?
Try DOSBox.
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Never tried. Still have the program and the doggle. I still have a few disk somewhere with plots on them, but I’m not sure I have a floppy drive to read them.
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Been using Carlson Surveyor 1 dos version since 1984, can not improve perfection.
Have it on a $85 Dell Optiplex GX620 running Windows XP Pro refurbished unit from EBay.
Added a wireless card that was laying around and a 1gb graphics card.
I tried it on Win7 Pro 64 and it would not work, requires a 32bit system………..
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My Win 7 is a 32 bit system.
Paul in PA
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Do you know how they’re making it work?
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I’ve tried DOSBox with no success.
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VMware Player can run DOS as a virtual machine.
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A big THANK YOU and much appreciation to Lee Green for getting me going with this OLD software! Lee provides a very capable and professional service and I highly recommend him!
And I appreciate this forum for providing the conduit for the connection!
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@dave-reynolds Have you figured out how to us it in window 7 or 64 bit?
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@catfishhoward Lee Green figured it out (per the post above your post). I wanted to set up another computer as a backup and hired Lee to make C&G run on it. He logged onto my computer remotely. I really donƒ??t know how he got it working, but he did. I never used the back-up computer because the original never failed. Now Iƒ??m retired:-)
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@dave-reynolds Congrats on your retirement. I finally left the field 3 years ago after working in Atlanta. I now do office calculation for construction and still use CG Dos. Do you have dongles that plug into the printer port to unlock the demo version you would like to sale?
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As mentioned I have setup CG survey DOS version on Windows 7 and 10 using Microsoft Virtual Machine. We didn’t need to use the plug in hardware dongle. As each client contacted Carlson and received a software virtual license that we installed. My clients love it.
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@catfishhoward several years ago I bought C&G 9 with AutoCad embedded. It came with the DOS version of C&G which didnƒ??t require the dongle.
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@dave-reynolds I found the download your talking about and called Carlson for one of the programs to activated DOS without dongle CG survey 9, 18 or 19 to get the serial number but they don’t sell them anymore and wont sell me a serial number. That would be great not to have to worry about my 30 year old dongle going out. I’ll continue to look for one of the 3 programs for serial number.
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@leegreen I believe I did a Virtual Machine on my old window 7 laptop but cant remember much about it. I’ll try that on my desktop since I have 2 monitors now that might work. Thanks
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Hey there… new member but I can add a little to this topic that might be helpful to some.
I still use CG-DOS every now and then to look at something from an old project. Has been working with Windows 7 and 10 using DOSBox as someone else mentioned. Works fine on x64 computers with 64-bit Windows 10 Pro.I have not tried printing directly from C&G this way… always just made HPGL files from C&G.
My setup is to create a folder C:DOS to keep eveything in. This will folder will appear as the root C: to my DOS session so C:DOSJobs on the computer will appear as C:Jobs to C&G. Also works for my mapped network drives.
The way I have it configured is with a shortcut on the desktop with the command:
“C:Program Files (x86)DOSBox-0.74-3DOSBox.exe” -noconsole -conf “C:DOSdosbox-cg49m.conf”
The config file (dosbox-cg49m.conf) has a section at the bottom that is used as an AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
[autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here. mount c: c:dos mount p: p: mount w: w: mount y: y: mount x: x: c: c:binNUM_ON.COM cd CG49M su.exe exit
Here I mount my drives, change to C:, run a little custom program to turn NumLock on, change to the directory where the C&G binaries are and run SU.EXE and the EXIT at the end closes the windows when I exit the C&G session.
Getting the config file right can be a little tricky. I started with some pointers from Carlson then trial and error to get it working well on my system. I will attach the config file as a starting point. Note, I had to add a .txt extension to attached it to the forum.
I use a similar setup for the old DOS StarNet that works well though I don’t often need to open an old adjustment project.
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Hi leegreen,
I started out using the old C&G software years ago…then switched to C&G 8 software running on an XP platform when the old C&G software was not compatible with the then new-now old plotters. That has worked fine with as the C&G 8 has a “switch” that will transfer over to the old C&G format that I am familiar with. Then when I got a new computer with a Vista platform the C&G 8 worked fine but did not work in DOS mode for the old C&G format that I use. So I’ve been transferring files between computers. I’ve tried setting up a virtual machine using VM but the XP section was very small…tried adjusting the resolution and finally gave up. Any suggestions?
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