Yesterday, with a little fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys files in the Virtual WIN XP running inside of WIN7 64, I was able to get WILDsoft to run, last copyright date is 1992. For those not familiar, this is a DOS COGO program that was a real workhorse for use in the 1980's and early 1990's.
Only thing is it runs in a window, can't full screen it due to some video issue. I don't use this in production any longer, but it is a quick and handy tool for running inverses, lot closures, areas, etc.
I mostly wanted to see if I could get an old 16 bit DOS program to run on a WIN7 64 bit OS box, you sure can!
Now to get all of the older NGS software utilities to run.
SHG
Hi Shelby,
Are you using virtual machine?
Ralph
> Yesterday, with a little fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys files in the Virtual WIN XP running inside of WIN7 64, I was able to get WILDsoft to run, last copyright date is 1992. For those not familiar, this is a DOS COGO program that was a real workhorse for use in the 1980's and early 1990's.
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> Only thing is it runs in a window, can't full screen it due to some video issue. I don't use this in production any longer, but it is a quick and handy tool for running inverses, lot closures, areas, etc.
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> I mostly wanted to see if I could get an old 16 bit DOS program to run on a WIN7 64 bit OS box, you sure can!
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> Now to get all of the older NGS software utilities to run.
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> SHG
Hey, it's not so bad. Another "bright side" is the amber 12" corner of our 24" LED monitors have a gazillion colors...
😉
Yes, Windows XP running under Windows Virual PC as a guest on a WIN7 Professional 64 bit host.
SHG
> Yes, Windows XP running under Windows Virual PC as a guest on a WIN7 Professional 64 bit host.
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> SHG
Thanks Shelby,
I just did that last night off of a backup of a previous computer and I ran into a glitch. I'm going back to the drawing board.
Ralph
I just installed that on Friday too. Got Eaglepoint / iCad to run on it. Now I have to transfer all of my settings and stuff for that.
I gat a quick try, and was unsucessful to get PCCDU to connect to a HiPer through my USB-Serial adaptor. PCCDU runs, but I can't get that COM port. But at least I am making a bit of progress.
Where can I get a copy of WildSoft? Does anybody have it available on a website for download? Might any of you folks be able to send me an install copy on any media you can write to?
I don't know if I have media any longer, BUT if you PM me I can send a link to download the files I have. The program will only run in XP mode on WIN7 and I have had it operating before that in WIN98, so YMMV depending on what OS you have. I was never able to get print functions to work, but I believe printing to a file worked.
Getting WILDsoft to work in newer OS was mostly just a fun exercise, I have never used it in production, BUT did want to have ability to open old projects and export if necessary.
I tried posting a link here, BUT buried in the auto generated Dropbox shortcut link are the three consecutive letters F blank and K and that is a no go here on the board 😉
SHG