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Posted by Arasmo
Mar 6, 2020 at 04:56 PM
>>My question: besides our PC-Outline user, who continues to actively use old programs in emulation? And how do you integrate your work?
Hello,
I discovered Grandview a few months ago and I’m still learning the ropes, but I think it’s a amazing program : lightning fast, user-friendly despite all the features and easily portable. And the manual is a work of art !
For the moment, I use it for to-do lists, management of some personal projects (I use the opensource software Kanboard for team projects), brainstorming and drafting. I sometimes write in Wordperfect 5.1, which I also started to use recently, and can easily share text between the two programs. When I need to export a GV file, I just convert it to the wordperfect format, which LibreOffice can open. Along with Mindforger, a great free and opensource notebook, Grandview has replaced Scrivener for my writing projects.
As I’m on Linux (Debian and Centos), I use DOSEMU2 instead of VDOS. You’ll need to compile DOSEMU2 if you are not in Ubuntu (there is a PPA) and it’s not very well documented, but it’s an excellent emulator : the small graphical glitches and mouse problems that I had with DOSBOX are gone. It’s also much faster than DOSBOX in my experience, which is important when you have a older computer. The DOS drive is mounted on a nextcloud folder : the files are so tiny that they are very quick to sync, even with a slow connection.
Posted by jaslar
Mar 12, 2020 at 09:15 PM
A belated correction: I have been using dosbox-x (rather than dosbox)—which seems to be far more accommodating to these old outliners, and also for toggling to full screen (first choose output>opengl, then adjust for aspect, then full screen).
A shout out again to @Stephen Z—I couldn’t figure out the trick to displaying documents in the main screen. How do you do that?
Posted by DW Smith
Mar 20, 2021 at 09:52 PM
Dee
THANK YOU! GREAT JOB! Sorry, I don’t usually yell…
I fell in love with Grandview in the mid 1980s and used it extensively until the mid-1990s. I used Categories extensively and really missed them after it became clear it was not going to be ported to Windows. Great way to organize information in multiple dimensions!
The only issue I had was the download link from google docs didn’t seem to work in Chrome, so I switched over to MS Edge, and it downloaded fine.
I didn’t realize your download provides a copy of vDos-lfn, so I had already downloaded DOSBOX-x. It seem to work will that emulator, but I used your shortcut creator, and now have an icon on my Desktop. I then copied the folders I had with GV files to the USER folder and was able to access them easily.
I still have hundreds of .gv files, and have just revisited them with your tool for the first time in 25 years! I was able to select all of the text from a document and export it as space delimited ASCII - Wonderful!
Thanks again, Don Smith
Software developer, customer support engineer and instructor during my ‘working’ career in Silicon Valley
Community College Computer Science Professor for the last 20 years (now partially retired)
Posted by Dee
Nov 11, 2021 at 03:25 PM
The previous links I provided for “GrandView for Windows v1” are no longer valid because of the recent Google Drive security update.
Here are the updated links:
GrandViewForWinV1.zip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ucGNNvTCmSYzdRUjlJS2g3ZTQ/view?resourcekey=0-5FS5a9WwP96ODPgV7AfOAQ
Screenshots
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8ucGNNvTCmSTk1adlY2LUdfV2c?resourcekey=0-R_GVOLbQY6YIqXsh9prVrQ
:Dee