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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 22, 2016 16:41:13 GMT
I want an XP Window in my Windows 7 PC
Used to have one on the PC that ate itself and I liked it a lot.
Is it called a Virtual Window and how easy is it for a very non techie to install ?
After that how easy to get my FoxPro for DOS installed in the XP window ?
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Post by Chris on Nov 22, 2016 19:28:32 GMT
I didn't understand a word of that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 19:33:06 GMT
That's why I'm an Apple fan.
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Post by Slinger on Nov 22, 2016 19:34:12 GMT
I can't believe someone is still using Foxpro for DOS. I hope you're at least on v2.6  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 19:45:15 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Nov 22, 2016 20:32:17 GMT
Get Windows 10 and you can have a virtual machine with XP running on it if you like. Quite why you'd want to only you can answer!
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 24, 2016 8:23:07 GMT
I need to sort something like this out as I want to run a rather unique game called airfix dogfighter by paradox entertainments from 2000. It worked fine in W7 but will not run on any of my W10 machines...
I've tried all sorts of things compatibility mode is no help at all.
The game installs fine and when run in any mode I get an hour glass for about 3 secs and then nothing happens. No error messages nothing.
I've tried The patch the the Dogfighter community pointed me toward, no difference.
Someone thought it could be because I have 64bit W10 and the game is 32bit.
The MS 32bit compatibility tool I downloaded did not help a jot!
Ideas much appreciated.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 24, 2016 11:03:59 GMT
In Windows 10 (not the Home version), go to Control Panel, Programs and Features, Turn Windows features on and off, Hyper-V, Hyper-V Platform and Tools. Make sure your BIOS is set to allow virtualisation. After a restart, you are ready to install a new OS (e.g. Windows 7) as a virtual machine. You should then be able to run your games and legacy software.
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 24, 2016 12:32:47 GMT
Sounds interesting Martin! I'll give it a go if I'm not home bound  |
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 24, 2016 13:39:27 GMT
I have home!  The funny thing is that other guys on the Dogfighter forum have it working on W10 64bit with XP sp3 compatibility mode settings. For some reason it's jammed on W95 at the moment but I have tried it on W7 & I think XP but no luck so far. I'm going to focus on trying this way first. |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 24, 2016 15:10:29 GMT
Ok. W10 Pro is worth upgrading to if you want proper virtualisation (but do check that your motherboard/BIOS supports virtualisation first). That way, you can run any flavour of Windows as VMs, together with Linux etc.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 24, 2016 15:43:05 GMT
Delay due to my broadband going out again...... Thanks guys Had it running fine on the old W7 PC that died. I believe support for W7 is until 2020. I'm used to running FoxPro - yes 2.6 slinger Some things I have also running in Excel and I would go to that if I had to, but nowhere near the speed of flexibility of Fox |
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 25, 2016 11:39:10 GMT
Turns out my cd rom was strangely not doing a complete install. I got a complete install from a fellow Dogfighter enthusiast. That works fine in compatibility mode, with one exception that the plane graphics are not drawn - makes flying the missions hard. Hopefully the forum guys can help me some more. Edit - draw probs fixed by using Direct graphics settings in dgVoodoo and the game setup instead of 3dfx! Not we can shoot some Allied and Axis, rooms, tanks, planes, submarines, Zeppelins, use a Tesla charge and even the A-bomb on level 10! Dogfighter wikisorry for the thread hi-jack |
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Post by Slinger on Nov 25, 2016 14:32:15 GMT
I'm used to running FoxPro - yes 2.6 slinger I used to write applications in Foxpro 2.5 for Windoze in another liftime. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 26, 2016 16:44:04 GMT
Nothing so advanced here, FoxPro 2.6 for DOS Were you a member of the Fox Develops group ? |
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Post by Slinger on Nov 26, 2016 18:52:38 GMT
No, basically I used to suck raw data out of a SCO Unix box via custom SQL queries I wrote and then funnel it all (in comma delimited format) into Foxpro to develop things like hyper-specialised sales reports. The most complex thing I ever got Foxpro to do was compare sales against to stock levels for seven shop branches each night after the data was polled and if the result was below a set level then automatically fax all of the required suppliers after 6 p.m. with a purchase order to replenish the stock, and then produce individual branch reports plus cumulative reports of the replenishment, with costings, for the three buyers which were distributed via our company intranet (which I also set up) so the info was there for them first thing every morning. Then I built their company website. Then they made me redundant. As I said, another lifetime. I'll stop hijacking your thread now.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 26, 2016 20:24:03 GMT
Well out of my league ! I was a gentleman developer. Ran a printing company for over 30 years on Fox Started with a pile of rubbish supplied in dBase II. Mended it over a period of years, upgraded to Fox base then FoxPro Enjoyed a lot of what I did in Fox |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 27, 2016 9:28:37 GMT
I was an Access guy. Wrote a sales lead tracker database for use by all the European companies, which they sent back each week and we could merge into one master. Gave an overview of all the big sales cycles and where they were at. I used to adjust pricing for these people to suit. It was a large and technical B2B sale for all the wide format printers & copiers.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 27, 2016 12:39:38 GMT
You may know that Bill bought Fox Software so he could mend Access.
Took the engine out of Fox and Access then worked
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Post by MartinT on Nov 27, 2016 15:10:26 GMT
Yeah, I heard that. Access was fine as long as you didn't kid yourself that it was a corporate client/server database. It's great for smaller jobs. If you want to do something properly, get SQL Server.
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