Jon, I find dosbox a bit too slow building up, especially with data from links. And we are 5 people using it on a network, that's why I chose not to use dosbox.
But I guess a relaxed person like you ;-) would probably be okay with dosbox. You can always try it. It's free. I know other people that are happy with dosbox on Win7/64. Gerard 2013/2/15 Jong <[email protected]> > ** > Gerard, Geert & Tim: > > Really nice to get continued support for our DP dinosaur from the gang. > > I've considered switching to Access or other databases but I still believe > simple is better, especially with complex data sets that I deal with in a > medical practice. > > Full screen really only a concern for the portable netbooks I have to > carry around at work, I realize that's not too much of an issue on the big > screen. > > From what I've seen so far, someone (excuse me for forgetting who it was) > said win7/32 pro allowed XP emulation with full screen so it looks like > that's the easiest way to go for me. > > As for win7/64, (which unfortunatley I have on one of my laptops), it > looks like best solution is creating a virtual PC using VMware and then > WinXP -- lots of work there. > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Gerard van Loenhout [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 12:26 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* [email protected]; Dataperfect Users Discussion Group > *Subject:* Re: [Dataperf] DOS in Win 7/64 questions > > Hi Jong! > > I use DP Win7 / 32 Home. The window is not bigger than the dosbox in XP. > I find it quite comfortable to work with. > With these big screens nowadays I haven't actually tried fullscreen. > > Geert probably knows more. > > Gerard > > > 2013/2/14 Jong <[email protected]> > >> Geert & everyone: >> >> Thanks for the latest info on Dp in Win7/32, just a few clarifiers: >> >> 1. Do you have pro or home version Win7/32? >> 2. Does DP run in full screen mode? >> 3. How do you print up your HTML output from DP? >> 4. Is there a print spooler we can use similar to DP Spool to make >> printing >> seamless? >> >> Jon >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:49 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DOS in Win 7/64 questions >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I can only agree with Gerard : I am running DP 'straight out of the box' >> without any problem on a Win7/32 system. NB: I don't even use Tame ! >> >> All my reports are saved into html-files, which solves all possible >> printing problems... >> >> Regards, >> Geert. >> >> >> >> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:03:25 +0100, Gerard van Loenhout >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Don, I was the one who started the most recent discussion about Win7. >> > DosBox is too slow. I bought a couple of Win7/64 PCs at Dell. I bought >> > a CD from them with Win7/32 for the same PCs so I had the right >> > drivers. Now DP works fine. >> >> > 2013/2/12 Don Friedman <[email protected]> >> >> I know that there has been discussion about this but I can't seem to >> >> find >> >> a way to search it out on the main site. Is their a trick to that? >> >> I've finally "grown up" and put a couple of Win7/64 boxes in the >> office. >> >> I'm assuming that I can run dosbox to run DP without much trouble - I >> >> never >> >> have a need to print from DP and if I remember right that was part of >> >> the >> >> problem. Am I on the right track here? I'm assuming that it will still >> >> be >> >> faster to run DP via dosbox on my newer machines than to run them on my >> >> older XP machine. >> >> Don >> >> -- >> >> *Don Friedman >> >> ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC >> >> PRS Data Systems >> >> Liveport WiFi* >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> > >
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