I have an old version of dBASE II that has a dbase.com and a dbaseovr.com. hen I run dbase.com it does nothing and it returns to the msdos input.
How to get it running ? How to check if there is an error ?
thanks
Did you install the application from its original disks? If not, and you are not mounting the directories in a way that matches its original installation, that might be the problem. And of course if all you have is dbase.com and dbaseovr.com , you're probably missing a bunch of support files.
Also, DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION .
Are you sure that dbase II is a PC program? The original dBase II was released as a CP/M program (later ported to MSDOS), and CP/M programs are also .com.
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The Copy I have also don't run on Dosbox, but I think dosbox is too "powerfull" and don't emulate all the interrupts/PC hardware required for dbaseII to run.
A way too run it is to use something like winimage, put your dbaseII files on a 360kb disk, use an IBM PC-DOS 2 bootdisk and boot one of the working IBM5150 drivers in MESS, I've used the PC driver
My commandline for MESS looks like this:
mess pc -flop1 pcdos2.ima -flop2 dbase2.ima
Does the IBM PC-DOS bootdisk boot in DOSBox?
Does the IBM PC-DOS bootdisk boot in DOSBox?
Yes it does, if you set the config to:
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I guess that means that dBASE II doesn't work in DOSBox even after booting IBM PC-DOS.
It kind of makes me wonder if Bochs or PCem works. This is the first time I've heard of someone resorting to MESS.