You might try a VM. I also have some ultra-legacy things that I still
want to run. One, a satellite ephemeris generator, is written in DOS
3.1 FORTRAN. I installed Virtual Box and loaded DOS into a VM, program
runs fine. Another will run in Windows up to XP but not beyond, so a
second VM runs XP for it. I also have a Linux VM in there.
Virtual Box was free when I got it, I heard somewhere that it may not be
free now, but there are several others out there too.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 6/9/2019 10:28 AM, Gwen Patton wrote:
Mark,
My concern is legacy programs that may misbehave under Win10. I have some
pretty old programs that weren't written with Win10 in mind because it
didn't exist yet. I'm certain I'll have to upgrade eventually and bite the
bullet, but until then it's a balancing act. But to be fair, some of those
legacy programs aren't as important now as they once were, so I may be
hanging onto stuff I don't need to be concerned with. I'll have to go
through the thing and figure out what I need, what I want, and what will
still work. Eventually. It's not my #1 priority.
I also may have to update the machine at the same time, and there's no
sense updating my OS if I'm just going to have to upgrade the hardware. Any
new machine I get will likely come with Win10 on it already, so I might as
well do a careful software migration to a new box than update the OS on the
old box that'll just get set aside. It doesn't owe me anything -- I got
this machine 7 years ago.
73,
Gwen, NG3P
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