WOW. I was able to take a screen shot of the splash screen that comes up very quickly. It was written on Sept 1985! Wiki says it would have been dos 2.11!

[quote="wd"]Is that program freeware or is some shareware/demo of it available that exhibits the same problem? [quote] There doesn't seem to be any links to this application on Boston Redevelopment Authority website or google. I'm unsure of it's licensing. I'll see if I can contact someone at BRA …

Actually it looks like I might be wrong about the disk read/write. I setup Process Monitor from sysinternals and watch the application in xp and in dosbox. It's actually is reading program data files fine. When I enter in the project name (where it stops in dosbox) even in pure xp it doesn't create …

Thanks for the quick replies. The application doesn't seem to care where it's being run. Tried from c:\brada\ and c:\brada\brada\. It runs fine even from a folder on my desktop in XP. It doesn't use any subfolders, it's likely a very simple application. I've tried several different combinations with …

Unfortunately I don't have the installer just a copy from and old computer. I would like to know more about the consistent path issue though. Does something get changed around in dosbox? I replicated the same path as the old computer c:\brada\ in dosbox. Thanks.

Intel chipset based Dell system, P4 2.8, 1gig ram, nvidia quadro pci-e 64meg, onboard soundmax audio running XP Pro SP2. I'm attempting to run an application called "BRADA" which stands for "Boston Redevelopment Authority Daylight Analysis", an old dos application. It only uses disk, keyboard and …