Subj : Re: Borland C++ 3.1 - an oldy... still a goodie? To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : @(none) Date : Tue Jan 11 2005 01:04 am I'd like to add that Borland C++ 3.1 runs perfectly in DOSEMU on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3. Todd wrote: > "Nathaniel L. Walker" wrote: > >>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 > > > > Nathaniel, thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly. > I checked late last night, and still have all the books that came with 3.1 also, > plus all the TASM doc too. I think I'll write some command line programs, to wet my feet again. > I still have some DOS 6.0 and 6.2 boot disks too, > plus, the IBM Dos 2.0 doc on how to write device drivers, etc... Good stuff. > > (Not sure what rel of MASM I have, but it's on 1 floppy.) > > Thanks again. My first visit to this group, and probably won't be my last. > > Todd .