Software:Pads-Logic V4.01, Pads-Work V7.01

2013-08-08T22:35:25Z

BillB999: Created page with "I began using Pads-Logic V4.01, Pads-Work V7.01 for DOS at my company back in 1994. Since then I have designed and manufactured about 200 designs using the software. There h..."

I began using Pads-Logic V4.01, Pads-Work V7.01 for DOS at my company back in 1994. Since then I have designed and manufactured about 200 designs using the software. There have been many times where hardware and operating system upgrades have broken the software but I have always managed to find a way to fix it.

In 1994, my company was running Win3.1 so DOS Pads worked just fine. We were using 386/486 PC's and there was a security dongle on the parallel port. When Pentium PC's came along, they ran so fast that the dongle failed because the program would give up waiting for the dongle to respond before it could do so. The dongle would not run on any PC faster than a 486. Someone else in the industry gave me a little crack exe that could crack the Pads exe if the dongle was plugged in, which it was, so ever since then I have run pads on the cracked exe and kept the original dongle in the drawer. Later that same year, the company switched to networked printers so all LPT1: traffic got redirected to the network path so the original parallel port dongle would have been rendered inoperable regardless.

In 1997, the company upgraded to WinNT. No matter what I tried, Pads would not run on NT. The solution was to boot from a DOS floppy to work in Pads, then reboot to WinNT later. Believe me, this was not fun.

In 1998, at home, I upgraded to a new Pentium PC with Win98se. I was able to get Pads to run natively on Win98se by adding a simple Pharlap memory manager as a DEVICE within the enh386 section of the system.ini file of Windows.

In 2003, the company upgraded to WinXP Pro. At this time, I purchased VMware Workstation v4 and created a Win98se virtual machine (VM) and ran Pads on that for many years. All files had to go through a simple shared folder called Xfer. That was a bit of a nuisance but it worked.

In 2013, the company upgraded to Win7 Enterprise 64bit. My VMware Workstation V4 would not operate on it so I purchased the new V9. It automatically upgraded my existing VM's and once again I was able to run Pads under the Win98se VM. Just for fun, I tried to get Pads to run on a WinXP VM. It would not, as I expected.

I began to search for alternatives and discovered DosBox. After taking about a day to read the manual and figure out the drive mounting procedure and how to make and edit the default config file, I decided to give DosBox a try at running DOS Pads. I copied the entire folder structure of my Pads system (about 3000 files!) from the Win98se VM into the WinXP VM. I installed DosBox, made the appropriate config file and shortcut to launch it, and Pads ran on the WinXP VM like a charm. I was thrilled and amazed. I quickly copied the entire thing over to my Win7 drive D:, installed DosBox on Win7, adjusted the config file and shortcut accordingly, and tried it. Again, I was amazed. Pads runs perfectly happily and at the speed of light on Win7. I could not be happier!

I want to thank the person/s responsible for creating DosBox. It's literally a small miracle. It's not just for games.

DosBox Rules!

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2013-08-08T21:06:46Z

BillB999: Before DosBox, the last version of Windows that could run DOS Pads was Win98se. With DosBox, it runs under XP & 7/64b

Here is a list of every article for every application that is known to work or not work on DOSBox. This list is naturally incomplete, but over time, as users take the time to check on their favorite application, this list will help new users understand what they can expect to happen when they try to get their favorite application to work. Software applications are not the primary focus of DOSBox, and the needs of [[GAMES|games]] tend to receive a higher degree of attention by the developers over the needs of an application. Although having said that, most applications work fine in DOSbox.

== #-N ==

* ACT2, Ver. 2.11 of the contact manager, has run on Linspire 4, 5, and 6 as well as FreeSpire 2; runs on Ubuntu 8.1 but cursor keys don't work.
* [[Software:Adlib Composer|Adlib Composer]] (graphical music production tool for Adlib sound cards)
* [[Software:Ashton Tate's Framework III|Ashton Tate's Framework III]]
* [[Software:Protel|Autotrax]]
* [[Software:Borland Delphi 16-bit|Borland Delphi 16-bit]]
* [[Software:Borland Turbo Assembler 5.0|Borland Turbo Assembler 5.0]] (minus tlink32)
* [[Software:Borland Turbo C|Borland Turbo C]] version 5.0
* [[Software:Borland Turbo Pascal|Borland Turbo Pascal]] versions 3.X, 4.X, 7.0 (although limited because of missing CTRL-Break functionality)
* [[Software:Central Point Software PCTools Deluxe|Central Point Software PCTools Deluxe]] ver. 4.23
* CMPlus (Double entry accounting software, run under Ubuntu 9.10)
* Contex PC Bank Manager (Personal Finance software) - run under Windows 7 64-bit
* [[Software:Composer 669|Composer 669]]
* Dbase III+
* Deluxe Paint 2 Enhanced (versions 2.3, 2.4, 3.0)
* DJGPP C Development system and RHIDE IDE
* [[Software:Dos Vectrex Emulator (DVE)|DVE]] (Vectrex Emulator for DOS)
* [[Software:Fast Tracker 2|Fast Tracker 2]] (Music production/sequencer)
* Freebase (free text database from CAT Benelux)
* [[Software:Generic CADD|Generic CADD]]
* [[Software:ImpulseTracker|ImpulseTracker]] (Music production/sequencer)
* [[Software:Intuit Quicken|Intuit Quicken]] (Fails with "illegal command" error. Version 8.0.)
* [[Software:JuggleMaster version 1.60|JuggleMaster version 1.60]]
* Lotus Agenda version 2.0
* [[Software:Mah Jongg Rel 4.2|Mah Jongg Rel 4.2]]
* [[Software:MicroPro International Wordstar|MicroPro International Wordstar]] ver. 3.3, 4.0, Pro 4.0
* [[Software:Microsoft Excel|Microsoft Excel]]
* [[Software:Microsoft GWBASIC|Microsoft GWBASIC]] (BASIC language interpreter.)
* [[Software:Microsoft Powerpoint 2.0|Microsoft Powerpoint 2.0]]
* [[Software:Microsoft QuickBASIC|Microsoft QuickBASIC]] (BASIC compiler with IDE)
* [[Software:Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0|Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0]]
* [[Software:Windows|Microsoft Windows]] (versions 1.0 through Windows for Workgroups 3.11)
* [[Software:Microsoft Word|Microsoft Word]]
* [[Software:Microsoft Works|Microsoft Works]]
* [[Software:Microsoft Windows 95|Microsoft Windows 95]]
* [[Software:Microstation 4.0|Microstation 4.0]] (DOS based CAD program)
* [[Software:Mille Bournes v4.5|Mille Bournes v4.5]]
* Norton Commander 5.5

== O-Z ==
* [[Software:OpenGEM 5.0|OpenGEM 5.0]]
* [[Software:Pads-Logic V4.01, Pads-Work V7.01 |Pads-Logic V4.01, Pads-Work V7.01]]
* [[Software:Paradox 4.0|Paradox 4.0]]
* [[Software:PKWare PKUnzip|PKWare PKUnzip]]
* [[Software:PC Write|PC Write]]
* [[Software:Neuberger PMC-Software|PMC]]
* [[Software:QandA|Q&A Database]] (Version 4.0 for DOS works fine for me. I haven't tried other versions.)
* QBasic
* [[Software:Omation|Schema III]]
* [[Software:Seal|SEAL]]
* [[Software:Skyglobe|Skyglobe]]
* [[Software:Soundex Coder|Soundex Coder v8.02]]
* [[Software:Spectra|Spectra]] (Formerly known as WinDOS)
* [[Software:StarTexter|StarTexter]] (a.k.a Sybex Quattro Textverarbeitung)
* STS Orbit Plus (aka STSPLUS)
* Tango PCB & SCH (PCB CAD from early 1990s) Both run, but PCB requires loading SafeSoft emulator first.
* UniComal 3.11
* [[Software:Vim|Vim]]
* [[Software:WordPerfect|WordPerfect]]
* [[Software:Wordstar-6 for DOS|Wordstar-6 for DOS]]
* [[Software:Xtree Gold|Xtree Gold]]
* [[Software:ZSNES|ZSNES]]

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