My Lab is now snaked and spider web'ed with wires ready 2 go
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:50 pm
I'm concurrently recording old magnetic media, including audio tapes, and data short minute tapes for retro computers into Audacity, behind me, doing lots of things at once.
I have a really nice USB headset, instead of the regular audio ear/mic in jacks, it's got 200% better quality than the normal jack interfaced headsets.
I'm going to be, starting today, trying to do some tutorials, on DOS, QBasic, trying to refresh the memory of the old, and imprint the memory of the n00b, so people can make better use of the various DOS flavors, DOS emulations, and even getting XMS/EMS flavored QBasic to run in WinXP! Hard to fathom, but it's true, I did get an working XMS flavored QuickBasic v4.5 program running under WinXP, without any emulation, it had to run fullscreen to work, and it was in SVGA, but it DID work.
I'll try to tutorial how to make the shortcut links, as well as *.LNK, *.PIF, *.CMD, *.BAT scripts, so your stuff will run on at least WinXP.
If you're stuck with Win7 or Vista, I feel for you, just look for some Linux variant, and Wine to emulate WinXP enough so you can have the same old stuff once again.
I really gotta get a proper install of Wine going, asap, before the binaries become too scare to find for a proper Win32 Wine WinXP simulated environment.
:M
I will try to host everything off-site, so it's not a resource hog on the QB Forum itself, as well as try to make things easy enough on the eyes to be readable.
I have a really nice USB headset, instead of the regular audio ear/mic in jacks, it's got 200% better quality than the normal jack interfaced headsets.
I'm going to be, starting today, trying to do some tutorials, on DOS, QBasic, trying to refresh the memory of the old, and imprint the memory of the n00b, so people can make better use of the various DOS flavors, DOS emulations, and even getting XMS/EMS flavored QBasic to run in WinXP! Hard to fathom, but it's true, I did get an working XMS flavored QuickBasic v4.5 program running under WinXP, without any emulation, it had to run fullscreen to work, and it was in SVGA, but it DID work.
I'll try to tutorial how to make the shortcut links, as well as *.LNK, *.PIF, *.CMD, *.BAT scripts, so your stuff will run on at least WinXP.
If you're stuck with Win7 or Vista, I feel for you, just look for some Linux variant, and Wine to emulate WinXP enough so you can have the same old stuff once again.
I really gotta get a proper install of Wine going, asap, before the binaries become too scare to find for a proper Win32 Wine WinXP simulated environment.
:M
I will try to host everything off-site, so it's not a resource hog on the QB Forum itself, as well as try to make things easy enough on the eyes to be readable.