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[Bacon Butty Man]

thought i would put my other hdd in my laptop the other day after downloading widows 7 and load it on to try it, the down load available is the equivelent to the vista ultimate (which i hated) its the top dog of os, i must say the eas of use and intergration of all progs is easy, you get the full version and have to register it, but it expires on aug 1st, any one else tried it, i am using it now, its good, not met any gliches yet but i suppose thats to come. lol, good job i still got my xp on the other hdd lol 8-)

[Martin_1962]

No full screen DOS mode - useless for older games and some applications

[Plomien]

apart from it not liking the drivers for my webcam its not bad.
Its nice to see the full 4Gb of memory working that I have in my PC rather than the 3Gb on XP
It looks like it will be what Vista should have been

[TheBoy]

thought i would put my other hdd in my laptop the other day after downloading widows 7 and load it on to try it, the down load available is the equivelent to the vista ultimate (which i hated) its the top dog of os, i must say the eas of use and intergration of all progs is easy, you get the full version and have to register it, but it expires on aug 1st, any one else tried it, i am using it now, its good, not met any gliches yet but i suppose thats to come. lol, good job i still got my xp on the other hdd lol 8-)

I think the debate on (the current beta of) Windows 7 was done to death about 2 weeks ago...

[TheBoy]

No full screen DOS mode - useless for older games and some applications

Not tried in Win7, but as Vista is similar, I guess its same - its possible, bit of tweaking iirc, inc disabling Aero. Been ages since I've had to do it, I'd need to look it up.

Obviously, its not DOS, its simply a full screen command prompt that sits on top of Windows.

However, in this day and age, we certainly should not still be running console based apps that need to go full screen, this is 2009 FFS.

[cem_devecioglu]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

[Martin_1962]

No full screen DOS mode - useless for older games and some applications

Not tried in Win7, but as Vista is similar, I guess its same - its possible, bit of tweaking iirc, inc disabling Aero. Been ages since I've had to do it, I'd need to look it up.

Obviously, its not DOS, its simply a full screen command prompt that sits on top of Windows.

However, in this day and age, we certainly should not still be running console based apps that need to go full screen, this is 2009 FFS.

XP could manage it so could 2000, so why break it?

[TheBoy]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

Thought all Turbo Pascal apps (old dos based ones) had an overflow issue on fast (over a few hundred Mhz) machines?

[TheBoy]

No full screen DOS mode - useless for older games and some applications

Not tried in Win7, but as Vista is similar, I guess its same - its possible, bit of tweaking iirc, inc disabling Aero. Been ages since I've had to do it, I'd need to look it up.

Obviously, its not DOS, its simply a full screen command prompt that sits on top of Windows.

However, in this day and age, we certainly should not still be running console based apps that need to go full screen, this is 2009 FFS.

XP could manage it so could 2000, so why break it?

Backward compatibility if 15-20yr old apps is unimportant.

[cem_devecioglu]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

Thought all Turbo Pascal apps (old dos based ones) had an overflow issue on fast (over a few hundred Mhz) machines?

nope..still working..I have visited one of them few months ago..and he was still using  

[TheBoy]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

Thought all Turbo Pascal apps (old dos based ones) had an overflow issue on fast (over a few hundred Mhz) machines?

nope..still working..I have visited one of them few months ago..and he was still using  

I know it affected up to TP6, as I threw my TP out because of it.  One of the libraries it drags into the exe does some kind of timing loop, which overflows on fast PCs...

[cem_devecioglu]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

Thought all Turbo Pascal apps (old dos based ones) had an overflow issue on fast (over a few hundred Mhz) machines?

nope..still working..I have visited one of them few months ago..and he was still using  

I know it affected up to TP6, as I threw my TP out because of it.  One of the libraries it drags into the exe does some kind of timing loop, which overflows on fast PCs...

For a pc running turbo pascal application I think it will never be necessary to be fast..    :-/

[TheBoy]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

Thought all Turbo Pascal apps (old dos based ones) had an overflow issue on fast (over a few hundred Mhz) machines?

nope..still working..I have visited one of them few months ago..and he was still using  

I know it affected up to TP6, as I threw my TP out because of it.  One of the libraries it drags into the exe does some kind of timing loop, which overflows on fast PCs...

For a pc running turbo pascal application I think it will never be necessary to be fast..    :-/

TP problem on 'fast' machines

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bds2/ltsn/tpbug.htm

[cem_devecioglu]

I still have working dos applications (some doctors using them) written in Turbo Pascal from year 1989  

only they changed the machine..

Thought all Turbo Pascal apps (old dos based ones) had an overflow issue on fast (over a few hundred Mhz) machines?

nope..still working..I have visited one of them few months ago..and he was still using  

I know it affected up to TP6, as I threw my TP out because of it.  One of the libraries it drags into the exe does some kind of timing loop, which overflows on fast PCs...

For a pc running turbo pascal application I think it will never be necessary to be fast..    :-/

TP problem on 'fast' machines

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bds2/ltsn/tpbug.htm

interesting.. :-?

means he and others are still using old machines..

I need to warn them..

And they may need a new program   hearing sound of money

[cem_devecioglu]

http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html

some patches here..