be a God send, extend DataPerfect's usefulness for the foreseeable future and put an
end to the never ending questions and issues about running on DataPerfect on modern
operating systems.
I believe DataPerfect was written in Forth. There are a number of Forth compilers (and
interpreters) available for x86 systems. Here's one list:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Forth/Implementations/
Here's another overlapping list:
http://www.forth.org/compilers.html
On the surface, this would seem to be doable. The fact that it hasn't been may mean
there's more to it. Maybe Lew could comment?
Since Lew has made a number of new DataPerfect version compilations, I'd guess there
are no copyright issues.
I run DataPerfect on 64-bit Windows 7 Professional under VMware which works but
always creates extra work in interacting with other programs and functions outside
of my VMware virtual environment. I'd be a huge proponent of a native 32-bit version
of DataPerfect (which would run on 64-bit operating systems). A 64-bit version would
be even better.
I'd like to see DPorder added to your list of components. I can only use the current
version of DPorder with small DataPerfect projects getting a out-of-memory error once
I reach a fairly small number of panels and/or reports. Memory shouldn't be an issue
in a 32 or 64-bit version.
Cheers for your suggestion.
Pat Riley
505-750-4728
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Dear all,
Working with DataPerfect under 64-bit OS is a problem that has to be solved through e.g. VMPlayer.
Unfortunately, although once promised, a Windows version of DP does not exist.
I had the same problem with 16-bit QBasic programs, but now recompiling them with QB64 was a straightforward solution.
I suppose DataPerfect (with its additions as DPEXP and DPIMP, MCREATE and STE-MGR) and Shell with the Editor [for shell-macros]) are written in a kind of C languageĀ
I wonder if there is no 32-bit version of the compiler for that languageĀ
This could be a solution for the 64-bit environment.
Of course one needs to have the correct compiler and the source.
I know that Lew Bastian had the source code for Dataperfect but maybe copyrights are preventing a recompilation??
A bad idea?
Danny Meirte
curator Herpetology
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Department of African Biology
Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 769 56 29 Fax : +32 2 769 56 42 or +32 2 767 02
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