Amazon.com has USB powered floppy drives for 13$
Maybe put together a freedos boot floppy with said program on it
And run it from there
On Saturday, November 24, 2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote:
> winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them
> work. They might provide VESA 1.2 or 2.0 capability but not 3.0.
>
> Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy
> drive.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:47 AM, TJ Edmister
> <damag...@hyakushiki.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'damag...@hyakushiki.net');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi, have a couple ideas for you below...
>>
>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:28:39 -0500, bruce.bowman tds.net
>> <bruce.bow...@tds.net <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'bruce.bow...@tds.net');>> wrote:
>>
>> > This may be a FAQ.
>> >
>> > I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it
>> uses
>> > VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later
>> versions
>> > of Windoze.*
>>
>> There are a couple fixes out there to make VESA modes work for DOS
>> programs running within Windows (though I haven`t tried them myself).
>> Search for winxpfix.zip or videoprt.zip
>>
>> > The bootable CD images that I've been seeing for FreeDOS and DOS 7.1 are
>> > all *installation* disks that first fake a floppy drive and then load a
>> > bootable floppy disk image that cannot be edited.
>>
>> If your program can run from a floppy, perhaps you could add it to the
>> bootable image. Use a program like winimage, or write the image to a
>> diskette, copy your program to it, then create a new image from there.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from my meager, humble desktop computer.
>
>
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