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Posted by floyd
Apr 19, 2015 at 06:21 PM
Hello sports fans. If you we’re into GrandView back in the day, here is one possible approach to obtaining and running the program in 2015.
Note, I assume no liabilities, provide any warranties or necessarily advocate any of the below :). Consider this a thought piece on how it could be done.
1. Setup a VM
- This step could be skipped.
- Parallels on the Mac, Virtual Box on Windows, etc.
- Not a necessary step, but if ur risk averse about malware, it at least makes one feel better about malware exposure even though it might be totally useless given DosBox below :)
- Only run GV in this environment. No browsing to your bank for example.
2. Setup DosBox in this VM
- DosBox is a very legit, wonderful piece of software
3. Go to an abandonware sight like vetusware.com
- They have GrandView 2.0
- No telling if it’s been cracked
- May or rmay not be in the public domain from an IP perspective
- download into ur VM
- setup under DosBox
- use copy and paste for interoperability with other programs
Total shame there is no modern equivalent of GrandView. Obviously, us GrandView fans are not a “material” segment of the market.
Peace
Posted by floyd
Apr 19, 2015 at 06:49 PM
Also, I know some gamers who use mailinator.com to log into Vetusware.com
peace
Posted by Dee
Apr 20, 2015 at 02:37 PM
I highly recommend vDos for running old DOS applications like GrandView:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/
Description:
vDos derived from the DOSBox project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/).
DOSBox is targeted at gaming and available for many operating systems.
If you consider using it for a database application. DON’T, mostly you’ll end up with corrupted data.
vDos is for serious (mainly text mode) DOS applications, Windows 32/64 bits (XP and later) only.
It lacks many of the hardware emulations of DOSBox (no joysticks, basic VGA…).
Instead it adds a live file system, file/record locking, Windows printing, a scalable screen font and more.
You should be able to run your DOS application quickly in a safe and convenient way.
Posted by floyd
Feb 26, 2016 at 06:22 AM
never knew about vDOS. Thanks for heads up
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Feb 26, 2016 at 03:37 PM
floyd wrote:
>Total shame there is no modern equivalent of GrandView. Obviously, us
>GrandView fans are not a “material” segment of the market.
It’s been said before here, but the closest you’re going to find is Emacs Org-Mode, which, well, requires using Emacs. Yes, there’s a learning curve and it’s a little daunting, but it *is* well documented, though you actually have to read the documentation, rather than jumping right in which is possible in most modern apps.
That said, GrandView had a what, 700 page manual?
Also, there’s a WordPerfect theme (based on WordPerfect 5.1) you can install that’ll even make it look like GrandView.