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

Also, I know some gamers who use mailinator.com to log into Vetusware.com

peace

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.

never knew about vDOS. Thanks for heads up

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.

Also, if anyone is interested in playing with more vintage software, The Internet Archive maintains a massive collection of old software that runs in the web browser using a modified version of DosBox. It's mostly a collection of old games, but they also have WordPerfect 6 (https://archive.org/details/msdos_wordperfect6 which I'd forgotten has a fairly capable outliner.