Mac,
I encountered exactly the same problem in December. I bought a PC that came
with Windows 7 Home Premium and tried to run Turbo Basic (very similar to
QBasic). I have literally hundreds of programs I've written over the years
in Turbo Basic and absolutely had to be able to run them.
The way I solved the problem was to upgrade to Windows 7 Pro (which cost
about $100), and then to download the free software from Microsoft for
setting up a "virtual PC" (a separate partition of my hard disk) and running
another free download that launches Windows XP. Windows 7 Home Premium does
not support XP mode, but Windows 7 Pro does.
I don't use QBasic, but I do have it, and I just verified that I can run it
in XP mode. The only thing that does *not* work in this XP mode is to open
a full-screen DOS window (which was possible on my previous PC, running XP).
Instead, I have to run all my programs in a small window. This is mildly
annoying, but at least they all do run this way.
Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of Mac Oglesby
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:06 PM
To: Sundial Mailing List
Subject: OBASIC on a 64 bit Windows 7 PC?
Hello Friends,
I've just bought a PC which runs Windows 7 (Home Premium) 64-bit.
Despite what the sales Tech said, it doesn't seem to deal with QBASIC at
all.
There were some postings a while ago about using sundial software with
Windows 7, but looking through the archives I didn't find anything about
QBASIC and Windows 7.
If anyone knows of a reasonably simple way to use QBASIC on a 64-bit Windows
7 PC, please let me in on the secrets as soon as possible, for the PC is
still returnable for full refund.
Thanks,
Mac
P.S. It would also be very useful to hear from anyone who knows (or is
pretty sure) that there is no hope of running QBASIC on my new PC.
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