Visual Basic for MS-DOS

Did anyone reply to you yet? I am in some serious DOS and VB help myself....if you hear anything please let me know!

I have VBDos. It is VERY old, and I'll see if I can get it for you.
(It's on my old 386 laptop which is in pieces at the moment)

I think Visual Basic 1.0 was dos based (if I can remember right), anyways if you actually want it I think you can find it here: (no warez URLs please - John) in the appz section, but I doubt you could do much with it.

[Edited by John on 06-26-2000 at 07:15 AM]

There was an article on vbworld the other day on writing console programs in VB. I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I thought I would mention it.

http://www.vb-world.net/articles/console/

Crypt wrote:
"I think Visual Basic 1.0 was dos based (if I can remember right), anyways if you actually want it I think you can find it here: (no warez links please - John) in the appz section, but I doubt you could do much with it."

Visual Basic 1.0 was DOS based and Windows based, depending on which you bought. I own VB1 for Windows, but I've seen VB1 for DOS on warez sites and the such. If anyone finds a copy somewhere, can ya possibly email me and/or just post it here. I'm not wanting to write serious programs in it, I just want to see the thing! :)

[Edited by John on 06-26-2000 at 07:19 AM]

Thank you reeset! That got me on a whole new train of thought (I think it's already derailed though :) )
According to this article, all I'd have to do is start a basic exe and remove the form and create a module. Does that sound right? Would that mean I could write a very basic GUI with ANSI graphics? Or would I still be better off using VBDOS?
I know...I know...So many questions...So little mind...

MerlinZG posts:
"According to this article, all I'd have to do is start a basic exe and remove the form and create a module. Does that sound right? Would that mean I could write a very basic GUI with ANSI graphics? Or would I still be better off using VBDOS?"

There is only one problem with this. Does your application have to be run in DOS? That article teaches you how to make a console applications (just a MSDOS window), but the application still needs to be run from Win32.

What I'm trying to do is create an automated program that will be started at boottime from a bootable CD and access an image file. In effect, I'd be making my own restore cd, but considerably better that the crap that the manufacturers put out. ;) So yes, I need to be in native dos mode.

With the current versions of VB this can't be done. VB programs need windows to run, so unless you succeed in putting Windows on a diskette you should look for another solution.

Just wondering, what's so crappy about products like Norton Ghost and Power Quest DriveImage ? They make a one to one image of your disk. That's about all you can get I suppose, so what else do you want ?

I've never tried ghost. I've got Drive Image. Basically, I've made the image, but the two floppy method for extracting leaves something to be desired. I am trying to determine command line switches for DI so that I can create a GUI boot menu with a couple of different install options for my various systems (same cd). It's an idea I've been working on. No particular time frame or anything. Theoretically, it can be done, and I just have a slight problem with not being able to finger something out. :)

Two floppy method ?
I've got one bootable floppy with a very basic OS and DriveImage on it. I even have 20k left !

A small autoexec that looks like this

mouse
pqdi

is enough to start DriveImage at bootup.

I haven't figured out any commandline parameters because I don't mind the two or three clicks I have to do in order to restore an image. It still beats reinstalling windows.



[Edited by LAURENS on 06-27-2000 at 03:53 AM]

Have vb1 for DOS on 51/4....yeap still have those disks laying around. Anyone wants it they can have it, only taking space in the shelves.

Otherwise try a quick C program to solve your problem.