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Hi Gunnar

I suggest you get yourself a bootable DOS diskette and put gwbasic.exe on it. The exe-file is only 78 kB, so you will have plenty of space for your BASIC files. You should opt for version 3.11 or better. Hewlett Packard delivered it together with HP Vectra.

There is no built-in help, so you need the book.

Regards

Hi again Gunnar

If you have a nationalized keyboard, you might want to put keyb.com and country sys on your boot-diskette, and edit config.sys and autoexec.bat . Try using character table 437.

If you do not do this, some of the keys will seem to be placed in the wrong places. Eventually you might become used to this.

Regards

GWBASIC is not a DOS thiong it is a DOS compatable thing ala IBM Compatible days and it iis not to my knowledge compatible with anything current because of the high amperage needed for it.

Hello Gunnar.

Hopefully one of the other answers worked for you, but if not, you could always try using DOSBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
It's a DOS emulator primarily designed for running games, so it should be able to handle GWBASIC with no problem.

Kevin

MS DOS or PC DOS [IBM] only work with FAT/FAT32 file system. Just as W9X will only work and recognize FAT/FAT32. If your HDD is formatted NTFS Fdisk will report is as non DOS. You won't be able to load up DOS on it.

Best way to run DOS programs is to get a old Pentium junker and load up DOS on it and run it that way. [KVM switch between your XP machine and the old junker].