Re: Running VisualAge RPG applications on a Windows XP 64 bit OS

Hello, Phil:

You could create a Win32 virtual machine, but you would have to install either VMWare, or Microsoft's Vitual PC, or "Virtual Box" from Sun, and then install a copy of the 32-bit version of Windows XP in that virtual machine. And, you may well need to purchase additional XP licenses from Microsoft, to do that. (It is a lot of work, for just one application, especially if you need to deploy this on many users' PCs.)

And, 64-bit Windows is supposed to be able to run most 32-bit Windows applications, in much the same way that you could run many 16-bit Windows applications under 32-bit Windows, using the so-called "Windows-On-Windows" (or WOW) capability of the Windows OS. You might want to try right-clicking on the executable files (.exe or .dll) that comprise your VARPG application... and see if you can change the properties to force Windows to run it as a 32-bit Windows application.

Try experimenting with this, and let us know what happens.

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Mant, Phil wrote:

Can this be done with Windows XP 64bit?

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:14 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Running VisualAge RPG applications on a Windows XP 64 bit
OS

A VM would do the job. Windows 7 allows you to create a 32 bit VM using
the
same license as I understand it (you should check your OS and licensing
options of course)

I did this to get round a printer driver problem where a USB printer
driver
only ran in 32 bit. A little ugly but works just fine.

Regards
Evan Harris


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, 30 April 2010 12:43 p.m.
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Running VisualAge RPG applications on a Windows XP 64 bit
OS

This problem was discussed last year on a public list or forum. I don't
remember which. There don't appear to be many options. Keep running
Windows XP. Work out a replacement strategy. I'd suggest migrating the
application to a browser UI.

-Nathan.



----- Original Message ----
From: "Mant, Phil" <pmant@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, April 29, 2010 4:55:42 PM
Subject: Running VisualAge RPG applications on a Windows XP 64 bit OS

IBM Support told me that it is not possible to run VisualAge RPG
projects on a Windows XP 64 bit OS. Has anyone else run into this
problem and have come up with a workaround?
TIA,

Phil Mant.
Williams Controls.