I need Mbasic

[birchbark1]

I have acquired a computer with windowsXP loaded, which
will bring me into 21st century. Trouble is is does not
have microsoft Mbasic program language, which can be
found in the program MS-DOS in windows 98. I have many
floppies with data, and programs which I have constructed
over several years.

[Jim Macklin]

try START/RUN...(type without quotes) "CMD"
that will get you a command line interface window.

If you want a BASIC program application, do a Google search
for "BASIC"


"birchbark1" > wrote in message
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| I have acquired a computer with windowsXP loaded, which
| will bring me into 21st century. Trouble is is does not
| have microsoft Mbasic program language, which can be
| found in the program MS-DOS in windows 98. I have many
| floppies with data, and programs which I have constructed
| over several years.

[Ally]

"birchbark1" > wrote:

> I have acquired a computer with windowsXP loaded, which
> will bring me into 21st century. Trouble is is does not
> have microsoft Mbasic program language, which can be
> found in the program MS-DOS in windows 98. I have many
> floppies with data, and programs which I have constructed
> over several years.

Can't you copy it (MBasic) over via a floppy disk or serial cable or
by connecting your old hard disk or burning it to a CD or saving it
on a Zip disk or *whew* whatever else works for you, save it on your
new computer's hard disk, and see if MBasic will still run on XP?

Many old or ancient MS-DOS programs _will_ still work.

If that's not an option, maybe your Basic programs will also run
under Microsoft's QBasic/Quickbasic, or perhaps PureBasic or
PowerBasic or any of the other (often freely available) Basic
flavours.

Under XP, the nearest equivalent to MS-DOS or Win9x's DOS prompt is
the cmd.exe shell -- just run cmd.exe from "start menu: run..."; it
looks a lot like Win9x's DOS box. (MS-DOS wasn't a program, by the
way. It was, or rather is, an operating system that early versions of
Windows were basically just graphical extensions of.)

~Ally

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