Can anyone help point me in the right direction.
We have an old program that was developed in house in the 80’s using, I think, Borland basic …
This program no longer will run on Win7 and so on without running diosbox and I really need to get it updated but all source code and the guy that wrote it have long gone.
Any ideas who could help me on this ? - I just need to get the logic / calculations out of it if possible otherwise we have to start again.
Cheers
Corrected for you Andy!!
Here you go bud :
10 PRINT “Yup you’re fxxxed get ready to reverse engineer the ancient old code”
20 GOTO 10
Turbo Basic is a native code compiler. That means EXE’s created with it can only be disassembled. You may be able to disassemble it but don’t expect human-readable BASIC code out. It may be useful as part of the reverse engineering effort but only that.
I’m no developer though but generally the above would be my starting point.
What he said. But I’ll ask my guys.
yeah I kinda guessed it would be like that … but I’m pretty desperate to find out the logic inside as we have not good results with our alternative using what we think are the same rules … and I’m guessing its Borland basic … but whatever its from the early 90’s not 80’s … got my decades mixed up …
Andy,
PM me with more details. I will get the head of the Uni computer science dept to have a look. He is a proper 80/90’s geek!