Slightly OT: DOS programs in Win XP

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jan 4 06:40:17 2005

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 03:04 -0500, Teo Zenios wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Foust" <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Slightly OT: DOS programs in Win XP
>
>
> > At 01:00 AM 1/4/2005, der Mouse <mouse_at_rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
> > >I have no knowledge either way. But it does seem to me that just
> > >because person B doubts that person A knows it's pirated does not
> > >necessarily mean that that person B has reason to think it's not.
> >
> > My hints come from his mentioning that several people helped him with
> > "finding a copy", as well as my experience with the shark-like rapacity
> > of Autodesk's licensing requirements. Call me skeptical. It's not
> > like AutoCAD is a thirty-years-extinct product. It's alive and well.
> > You're supposed to buy it.
> >
> > - John
> >
>
> Good luck buying a new copy of AutoCAD 12 for DOS from them today. I am not
> even sure what the license stated back then about selling the program to
> another person legally.

Aside: I thought autocad of that era required a hardware protection
dongle (as 3D Studio did) on the parallel port (Sentinel IIRC)? Maybe
I'm wrong on that...

There was a trick to getting 3D Studio 3 and 4 (both DOS apps) working
in a Windows NT DOS shell - afraid I know nothing of DOS support in more
recent versions of Windows but maybe some googling around the 3DS issue
will give some tips. I expect they'd be relevant to Autocad too
(certainly the Pharlap error someone mentioned rings bells)


(I think 3DS4 has to be in my top ten list of favourite software :)
Received on Tue Jan 04 2005 - 06:40:17 GMT