Visual Basic for MS-DOS

[ckennedy]

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

[Raydr]

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)

[Crypt]

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]

[reeset]

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/

[LordSteven]

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]

[MerlinZG]

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...

[LordSteven]

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.

[MerlinZG]

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.

[LAURENS]

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 ?

[MerlinZG]

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.

[LAURENS]

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.