Yes it is the Mormons. They have a particular interest in geneology, for if you join the Church so far as it is concerned you bring with you, think its 10 years of your ancestry as new members. To support this objective they released Personal Ancestral File, their free family tree builder …

Only one installer on the disk, but not giving up. Have come across an article recommending Orical Virtual Disk as a solution to running software built under older versions of Windows. Have recovered my XP installation disk from storage, but not the 25 alphanumeric character key which was stuck to a …

By chance while looking for a response to my previous post happened to discover that "How to ask questions the smart way!" was a link to a full blown article on forum behavior. For going "off topic" in asking for an opinion on a possible network solution - instead of doing my homework - I sincerely …

The primary CD in this application is the Resource File Viewer. Then 8 CDs for the National Index and 16 CDs of Census Data. When searching I would load the Index CD covering the first letter of the Surname and then the CD covering the region to be seached. Qbix, inspecting the directories of the …

Qbix, Have just read MiniMax's "60 second guide ...." which offers 2 solutions which I will have to get my mind around, but will still appreciate your comments.

Thanks for the encouragement Qbix. Will press ahead with another preliminary question. Where DOSBox is providing emulation support for GW Basic, the target in the shortcut to the former reads "C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe" -userconf". Would believe the -userconf option causes the …

Have been using DOSBox 0.74 to run GW Basic for some years. Subsequently installed the application BDM Revival which calls DOSBOX 0.74 to run the 1990 developed file data retrieval software which accesses extensive births, deaths, and marriages data. Unfortunately it would appear the developer of …

Vile Rancour, did as you suggested and everything OK now. My thanks to all contributors. Murf_Oscar

Have been running DOSBox successfully for some time, but after resolving an issue with Windows 10 - corruption of the single User profile corrected by creating a new profile and deleting the old - it so happened that DOSBox stopped working. Briefly the application I run under DOSBox is GWBasic. The …

[quote="....and you obviously need to enable a scaler in dosbox.conf to make that larger. Problem solved as per attached snip. In config file windowresolution=1024x768 (from =original), output=overlay (from =surface) were the only necessary changes. For enhancement scaler=hq3x (from =normal2x) gave …

Any other thoughts on the CMD resizing? Ah OK, the way your post was worded I thought you were talking about the command prompt, not DOSBox. Can someone please confirm that the Command Window that comes up using DOSBox is a window that it creates, ie DOSBox does not call the DOS Command prompt you …

But the DOS Command Window is down to about 30% of what it was. Any tips for making the DOS Command Window the same size as the window with the configuration details? Open the Command Prompt, and bring up the Window menu (Alt+Space OR click the icon in the top left of the Command Prompt window), …

Have just installed Windows 10. Used DOSBOX successfully on Windows 7 to run GW-Basic. Under Windows 10 the first window to open, it has configuration details, is about 20% larger - like that. But the DOS Command Window is down to about 30% of what it was. Any tips for making the DOS Command Window …