John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Sat Mar 17 19:58:49 CDT 2007
Rocky, Google for emulators and you'll probably be surprised how many emulators you find out there. Don't know about yours in particular though. I don't this either but I'm considering running DOS from a USB stick to provide one of clients access to a DOS program that will not run under XP. I'm looking into making the USB stick bootable and setting it up so they can boot into it or the HD for XP. They use it once a quarter so it not a big hassle like everyday or anything. Another thought would be a virtual machine running the TI-8000 ??? -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 7:37 PM To: List Subject: [dba-Tech] Old, Old Software Dear List: I'm trying to help a company that uses a product called COMPACT II, an N/C programming language that runs on a TI-8000 Professional, I think. An old 8-bit box, anyway. (BTW, I remember this language from my UNDERGRADUATE days - like when computers were still steam powered.) Anyway, this old box is starting to get shaky and so they are, too. If it goes out on them, they're in deep yogurt. So they sent me the disks to see if it could be loaded onto a more moderne machine (i.e., Pentium class). What I see on those disks is no .EXE files but a lot of .CMD files, which I *think* are the executables. If those are the program files, is there an 8-bit emulator out there that could run this stuff out of a DOS window maybe? OR are they SOL? MTIA, Rocky _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com