Forced switch to 64bitWin7

[RsiR]

Hi,
I was not active in this forum for a while.
Hutch even wiped my account.
I made a few programs (with help from this forum) that I still use daily.
I am proud that even colleagues across the country use them.
Now .. The IT-department at my hospital told me that
they plan to switch to 64bitWin7
and that my applications failed in their test.
And what I intend to do about it ...

I have no copy of Win7 (yet)
The hard disk with Masm32, RadAsm, etc crashed a year ago.
I still have a print on paper with the source code

Start from scratch? Or is there a smarter way?

[jj2007]

I have my current and older sources on 1. my home pc, 2. my office pc, 3. on various USB sticks.
OK, that was the educative part, now to your problem :icon_mrgreen:

Check why your proggies don't run. They should because Win32 code has in principle no problems on Win64. And make a high-resolution scan, perhaps you can save your code with OCR. Good luck :t

[dedndave]

it may be that you wrote the programs as 16-bit DOS applications
in which case, they will not run on 64-bit systems
write win32 apps, instead

[mywan]

I'm still just learning this stuff but I'm on windows 7/64bit and, as Dave said, all the 32 bit stuff compiles and runs fine on my machine. It's likely fairly trivial to fix whatever is causing your apps to break.

[Vortex]

Hi RsiR,

Welcome to the forum.

Did you try to rescue your files from the corrupted hard disc? A Linux distribution like Ubuntu could help you. ( Modest GUI knowledge is enough for this task. )

[hutch--]

RsiR,

unless it can be recovered from the old hard disk, you will have to retype the whole lot to get it into source code. RE: Your account, everyone had to re-register as this is a new forum in another country.