Subject Re: DBase IV Borland 2.0 legay software access From David Lane <david_jwlane@hotmail.com> Date Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:49:41 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Tim Ward Wrote: > On 07/09/2025 13:26, David Lane wrote: > > I have been using DBase IV (Borland 2.0) since the early 1990s for a long term animal population monitoring project. The computer I was using for this programme crashed around 2013. The large data file is on floppies and I also still have the original programme files on a set of floppis but am have difficulty re-installing the programme from these floppies onto a another computer. > > Is there a solution to this problem i.e. uploading my own discs or perhaps this legacy software is still available for download from the internet (preferably for free). It's now time to pubish and I still need to use this programm to analysis data from the final survey years. > > Thanks for any advice > > > > Dave > > > > > Hi Dave, > Were you using the dBaseIV directly to manipulate your data or was it > through a program you had written in dBaseIV? > If you're just using dbf tables the good news is that the latest version > of dBase still has most of the same commands that the old dos version > had. It'll cost to purchase but you should easily be able to access your > data. > If it's via your own code in a program and you need to get that running > it should still be possible. There is a product, dBdos, that allows > older dBase dos programs to run - a dos emulator as I understand it. I > don't have any experience with this unfortunately although there is info > on the dBase website and also a dbdos newsgroup. OK thanks - for advice. Not using any programming, just using the software as is. Will try to find emulator and/or the latest dBase version. Dave (this reply function seems a bit glitchy so hope this gets through > > good luck > Tim