Another possibility would be to write a TSR (terminate and stay resident)
program that intercepts the BIOS call and return the correct answer.TSRs
were all the rage back in the late 80s. Not trivial, but I expect there is
lots of assembly code to be found.
\\Greg
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mario Lobo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2011 18:57:44 Arioch wrote:
>
> > В письме от Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:08:58 +0400, Adam Moffett
>
> >
>
> > <[email protected]> сообщал:
>
> > > It may be more practical to migrate that data to something newer than
> to
>
> > > try keeping the same program running forever. Even if the data is not
>
> > > stored in an easily decipherable format you could have a temp retype
> it.
>
> >
>
> > yes, indeed. However...
>
> >
>
> > The program is about accounting.
>
> > It was targeted to SOHO, and has very little rules, hard setting for
>
> > workflow and such.
>
> > It did not get the steam and disappeared.
>
> >
>
> > Big players targeted large-scale companies, making "platforms", and
>
> > relying on value-adding resellers, making "configurations" (set of rules
>
> > and sub-programs) usable for SOHO.
>
> > They were not interested to this program with little niche.
>
> >
>
> > Up to the point, that some documents, needed as process originators, in
>
> > latter, were not required in that SOHO program at all.
>
> > Less the company - less the formalism.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > And the laws for accounting changed many times in those 10 years. It is
> no
>
> > less spaghetti, than phone operators plans...
>
> >
>
> > My mom knows nothing about programming, i know nothing about accounting
>
> > and myriad of laws and their editions.
>
> > I don't think she remembers exactly all those gotchas and edges in
>
> > 10-years-ago laws too :-)
>
> >
>
> > Sincerely, i think that chances that those data would ever be requested,
>
> > are invisibly minor.
>
> > But the accountant fever just says "NO! NO! DON'T EVER DARE!"
>
> >
>
> > And even if some tool would allow migration, there would be no sane way
> to
>
> > check that migration was really full and accurate.
>
> >
>
> > And that old box... with mainboard whose PS/2 jack sometimes sounds like
>
> > sparks...
>
> > IF one day it would REALLY bee needed and it would refuse to boot...
>
> > I hope never :-)
>
> >
>
> > But still....
>
> > VirtualBox ? VMWare Server (it's free AFAIR) ? DosBox ?
>
> > I'd prefer VBox, if there be standard way to put required data into those
>
> > last 13 BIOS bytes :-)
>
>
> Since it is a old DOS program, have you thought about reverse engenieering
> it?
>
>
> --
>
> Mario Lobo
>
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