> -----Original Message----- > From: cctech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike > Whalen > Sent: 01 May 2016 20:09 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Ideas for running a VB4 application on modern hardware? > > Hmmm… Perhaps so… Thanks, Josh!
This is a common problem. I think Win9X would be fine if you don't need network connectivity. You could also use one of the OS/2 releases with Windows support, or Linux with Wine but when I tried these for some Access 2.1 code they didn't work well... Dave G4UGM > > On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Josh Dersch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/1/16 10:28 AM, Mike Whalen wrote: > > > >> I can’t really tell if this is on-topic, but there’s [no|some|much] > >> shame in trying? > >> > >> I have a Visual Basic 4 application that I need to run on modern > >> 64-bit hardware I can do this in a VM, but I really need this VM to > >> be wicked small, like under a gig. The smallest XP VM I’ve seen is > >> 600MB (which might be good) but XP is becoming very hard to source > >> these days. > >> > >> I am bummed that there doesn’t seem to be something like vDOS or > >> DOSBOX for VB applications. Or… maybe there is? > >> > >> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might go about doing this? > >> > >> m > >> > >> > > DOSBOX can run older Windows versions; if this is VB4 I imagine it > > will run on Win 3.1, if not that try Windows 95. You should be able > > to build a VM running either of those in well under 100mb. > > > > - Josh > > > >
