novicegeek
Member
Hello all,
I'm back from a long hiatus. Since I've been away, I've learned more about computers, but have a bit of a problem. I'm trying to help a family member who has a small business. They are running an old program that installs from a floppy diskette. They don't have this particular computer hooked up to the internet, so that much is OK.
I'm trying to help them install this old program on a new computer that has Windows 10 OS. Obviously, Windows 10 is 64-bit and it's not compatible with the program on the floppy.
Of course, they need an external USB floppy drive; no problem, I have one of those. And they need a program to work with a 64-bit system; no problem, I've downloaded DOSBox and vDos. But though I tried to work with these programs, both are Greek to me. I can maneuver DOS, but I have no idea what to do with these things.
Can anyone help a body out? I just need some commands to type in so I can transfer an old program, in a floppy drive, to a new computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and highly valued.
Thank you.
I'm back from a long hiatus. Since I've been away, I've learned more about computers, but have a bit of a problem. I'm trying to help a family member who has a small business. They are running an old program that installs from a floppy diskette. They don't have this particular computer hooked up to the internet, so that much is OK.
I'm trying to help them install this old program on a new computer that has Windows 10 OS. Obviously, Windows 10 is 64-bit and it's not compatible with the program on the floppy.
Of course, they need an external USB floppy drive; no problem, I have one of those. And they need a program to work with a 64-bit system; no problem, I've downloaded DOSBox and vDos. But though I tried to work with these programs, both are Greek to me. I can maneuver DOS, but I have no idea what to do with these things.
Can anyone help a body out? I just need some commands to type in so I can transfer an old program, in a floppy drive, to a new computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and highly valued.
Thank you.