Great news. Everything seems to be working just fine.

Thanks for this reply. My brother and I are running the same program. We seem to be doing the same thing. His works. Mine does not. Thought I had it going at one point but then all the daa went haywire. I will try some more and try starting from the beginning and see what happens. If I have no …

I can get the program and start the program by typing 'start', an executable file. The program runs and gives a menu that should work. Each item in the menu is also exe files that take one to the family data. When trying any of these file, I get an error. It is obviously not linking to the data

Pardon my ignorance but what is a vm?

I think I may have been confusing. My old computer runs windows 98 so I can use dos, no problem. The laptop uses vista so there is no dos to run. That is my understanding and why I must set up dosbox.

What is pure DOS? How does one fix cycles?

The disk containing the Roots programme is labelled with 3.2 dos. The version of windows on the old computer is windows 98 SE. The programme pretty well fit on one of the old small floppies.

I am trying to get a genealogy program to work. When I try to execute the programme I get the following message: "illegal function in line 9 of module START at address 0564:00AC" Any ideas?