On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:48:58 -0600, Bob Melson <[email protected]> wrote: >On Friday 03 June 2011 21:36, Robert Riches ([email protected]) >opined: > >> On 2011-06-03, Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:59:46 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:49:10 +0100, "Roger Donne" >>>><[email protected]> declaimed the following in >>>>soc.genealogy.computing: >>>> >>>>> I've just got a new computer running Windows 7 64 bit and I am >>>>> migrating all >>>>> my genealogy data and programs from my old Windows XP machine. All is >>>>> going >>>>> well except for the LDS 1851 census CD - I can't even get SETUP to >>>>> run. The CD was produced some time ago (1997) but I still find this >>>>> to be a very >>>>> useful resource for my Devon families research. Can anyone help? >>>>> Roger >>>> >>>>1997 is still possibly in the time frame of 16-bit applications. >>>>Such applications could be run on 32-bit Windows 9x/XP... I do not >>>>believe any 64-bit processor can support 16-bit applications. >>> >>> My laptop came with Windows 7 64-bit installed, but with a DVD with the >>> 32-bit version. When it wouldn't run most of my most frequently-used >>> programs, I installed the 32-bit version PDQ. >>> >>> But it bodes ill for the preservation of information collected on >>> computers in the last 60 years or so. So much of it will become >>> inaccessible. >> >> Not necessarily. Lots of newer and older software works quite >> well under WINE, including Ohana's GetMyAncestors, PAF4, PAF5, >> and two versions of the (LDS) Scriptures on CDROM. PAF5 has the >> most difficulties, but it's easy to find a WINE version that runs >> it at least well enough to convert the data to some other format >> (like GEDCOM). >> >The other shoe that Robert hasn't mentioned is that WINE runs under >Unix, Linux and Mac/OS-X operating systems. It will normally run "well >behaved" Windows programs but seems to have problems with the bleeding >edge stuff. See http://www.winehq.org for more details. It's not the bleeding edge stuff I'm concerned about. It's what Microsoft is pleased to call "legacy" programs. In my case, many of them run under MS DOS. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Friday 03 June 2011 22:40, Steve Hayes ([email protected]) opined: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:48:58 -0600, Bob Melson <[email protected]> > wrote: <snip> >>The other shoe that Robert hasn't mentioned is that WINE runs under >>Unix, Linux and Mac/OS-X operating systems. It will normally run "well >>behaved" Windows programs but seems to have problems with the bleeding >>edge stuff. See http://www.winehq.org for more details. > > It's not the bleeding edge stuff I'm concerned about. It's what Microsoft > is pleased to call "legacy" programs. In my case, many of them run under > MS DOS. Understood. My point was - if point I had - that WINE is not the answer to every maiden's prayer. IF you run an appropriate o/s (see above) it'll do a workmanlike job for most programs but by no means all, which includes not only the bleeding edge stuff but the moldy-oldies, as well. The problem is that you won't know in advance which programs will run and which won't. WINE is free, as are many versions of Linux and all versions of BSD Unix. There was a free version of x86 Solaris - dunno if it still exists now that Oracle has bought Sun - and, of course, OS-X has never been free. You _might_ be able to run WINE under a live-CD linux distro and be able to test things in that manner; I'm unable to say as I've had no occasion to do so myself. I'd suggest you look at the web-site I mentioned above for more details and answers to your questions. (oomphalo)Skeptic Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes -- Thomas Paine