I can't install my power tools any more

[Fritz]

For history and playing with old systems where msdos is a modern OS
I try to replay what I did 25 years ago.


I buy from Kirschbaum and other in 1993
Power Basic with Tools and later saved the files from the 3.5" floppydisks.
The floppy disks are long gone.


SUBDIR │ ddeswap I needed
SUBDIR │ pb300c
SUBDIR │ pb311 thats the version I used
SUBDIR │ pb320
SUBDIR │ pbbonus
SUBDIR │ pbisam ISAm databas (I never used it realy)
SUBDIR │ pgdemo
SUBDIR │ pgraph1 I only made some test
SUBDIR │ pgraph2
SUBDIR │ pwtool1 That was I used a lot
SUBDIR │ pwtool2 " "

Last year I had a problem and thougt ... nothing matter, I've the files saved and can install new.

Bad as it doesn't work.
I hadn't saved the keys which where printed of the cover from the floppydisks and I had to type in during installation ( I forget)
and sadly today all are out of service.

I managed later to make the installed PB3 with the Powertools work again
and hope I learn even how to work with it.


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[PM]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:11:00 +0200, Fritz wrote:

> For history and playing with old systems where msdos is a modern OS I
> try to replay what I did 25 years ago.

It's possible that your executables are 16 bit and won't run on 64 bit
Windows systems. In that case you could try them on a 32 bit version of
Windows (XP, 7, or a 32 bits W10).


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Greetings, Peter.

[Fritz]

Now windows please.

The software I like to use is for msdos.
For correctness I must say that I use the MSDOS below OS/2 in a VBOX.
So the OS is MSDOS and exactly that is the environment I used in 1995.
At that time I had Warp4 - Now ECS 2.1



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