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

Hi, Phil:

Oh ... you did not mention setup.exe previously ... :-o

There were similar problems trying to run a 16-bit version of setup.exe on 32-bit Windows ... :-o

If you have a 32-bit Windows XP machine where this VARPG application is already installed and running,
you might try just copying all of the directories (folders) and files, e.g. zip them up, and then un-zip them into like-named directories on your Windows 64-bit system ... then, you might be able to experiment with what I was talking about ... changing the properties of the actual application, not the setup.exe utility program.

Good luck,

Mark

> Mant, Phil wrote:

Right now I am attempting to download and install Microsoft Virtual
Server 2005. Hopefully this will work for me.
There doesn't seem to be any options to change the compatibility in the
properties of the VARPG SETUP.EXE.

Thanks,
Phil.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:57 AM
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Subject: 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?

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[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


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, 30 April 2010 12:43 p.m.
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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.