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1. #Dosbox windows 3.1 mouse suddenly stops working install#
2. #Dosbox windows 3.1 mouse suddenly stops working upgrade#

#Dosbox windows 3.1 mouse suddenly stops working upgrade#

The company that made the instrument never made available any upgrade path that did not involve replacing the instrument, and has since gone bust. "Very expensive" means five or six digits. We have a number of instruments that would be very expensive to replace with modern equivalents, and which are still usable and useful. Have we reached the point yet when people get fired for choosing to be locked into expensive software with a short life span? It is unlikely that I will buy a Vista capable machine - my newest kit is fanless and I expect it to last beyond Windows 7 service pack 2 (assuming Windows 7 is only two years late).

Now that it too is on the way out, I have no legacy XP programs to deal with. XP has past me by, and I made no effort to investigate it. Dosemu under linux and freedos have been sufficient so far, and it has been a long time since I had to resort to either. I never had to deal with anything that explicitly required windows 3.11. There was a choice of software for schematic capture, PCB layout, and circuit simulation.īetter versions of all the stuff I could no longer use because MS kept "upgrading" their operating system. The same compiler worked as a cross compiler. It came with free compiler that worked better than anything I had used before. No more swearing at word because I could not get it to do the things I had done with Tex. Suddenly all the software I was familiar with from university became available. MS's helpful advice convinced by to try a Linux CD from the cover of a magazine.

#Dosbox windows 3.1 mouse suddenly stops working install#

I should thank MS for that, and for some similar advice I received when I tried to install a new MS compiler (the disk thrashed for two days before I let the machine give up). A friend had some expensive MS technical support to spare, and here is they advice the had him pass on to me: "God hates you." When NT got foisted on me, some of my DOS programs became a bit wobbly. I tried 95 for a bit, and went back to 3.11 because I did not have time for my machine to reboot four times a day.