Subj : Re: Borland C++ 3.1 - an oldy... still a goodie?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Nathaniel L. Walker
Date : Sun Jan 09 2005 01:47 am

There is still alot of DOS development going on believe it or not, and if
you look good enuff, you may find a viable target (i.e. FreeDOS).  BC++3.1
is old, so it's standard compliance is not good, but it was a good compiler,
and the last great DOS IDE.  Turbo Vision is nice, too :p  Forget about
Windows programming, it only supports up to Windows 3.1, and alot of stuff
written for Win16 (esp low level stuff) won't even run on WinNT/2k/XP.
Check FreeDOS.org when you think you have a nice handle on C/C++, maybe you
can contribute!

VB3 is basically useless, MASM *can* be of some use if you do some low level
programming, but you cannot link MASM objects to BC++ objects.  The only
thing really good about MASM was the IDE in the 6.0+ versions, TASM lacked
one (pipe it from the C++ IDE).  BC++3.1 comes with TASM 3.2.

Many of the tools that came with BC++3 will not work on WinXP.  The 16-bit
TProfW from BC++ 5.02 will not even work on WinXP.  BC++3.1's tools
repeatedly crashed my Win98SE VMWare, but if you can find a DOS out there to
run it on it should be wonderful.

The first thing I suggest you do is burn all those floppies to CD, they
probably won't last much longer now that you're actually gonna use them.  I
myself have a 20GB partition set aside to store all my legacy softwares I
don't want to lose, and of course there are the CDRs...

Nathaniel L. Walker

"Todd" <promosMAPS@burchMAPSwoodusa.com> wrote in message
news:41e0b0c6$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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> I have an old copy of Borland C++ 3.1, purchased new back in '93 to '95 (I
think).  I used it some back then, but then shelved it for other interests.
I'm getting back into doing some programming on the PC, and found these
disks, all 12 of the floppies :-), and was wondering if I'm wasting my time
attempting to even think about installing them on WinXP Pro.
>
> Any suggestions?  (Oh, I found MASM too - Macro Assembler...  WOO-HOO!....
And my MS VB 3.0 disks).    Thanks.  Todd

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