FLYbase help

[BradFromPotter]

Does anyone remember FLYbase? It was developed by a friend of mine, Tom Dewey who passed away last year. It is on 4 floppy disc to run on Windows. Is there anyone on this forum that get it to run on Windows 11. I don't even know if that's possible. I'd be glad to send it to someone who has the expertise to try. It is NOT for sale. The info that is contained in the program is amazing.

Let me know if you want to try!

 

[RLeep2]

FLYbase. Sheesh.. That has to be close to (if not more than..) 30 years old. Tom was working on it when I interviewed him for a volunteer position with the State TU publications and that couldn't have been later than 1997.

With all of the IT gunslingers around here, I'm sure somebody could convert it to run on the newest versions of Windows. That somebody isn't me, though...🙂

 

[BradFromPotter]

FLYbase. Sheesh.. That has to be close to (if not more than..) 30 years old. Tom was working on it when I interviewed him for a volunteer position with the State TU publications and that couldn't have been later than 1997.

With all of the IT gunslingers around here, I'm sure somebody could convert it to run on the newest versions of Windows. That somebody isn't me, though...🙂

I met Tom in Jan 91 before I moved to Potter in 95. He gave me a beta copy then.

 

[sandflyx]

have a friend that does programs and an It. let me know Ill tell him.

 

[csoult]

There are certain drivers that don't work well with that big of a jump in OS. I doubt that you will be able to get it to run in windows 11. What you may be able to do is setup a virtual machine and load it with what I'm assuming is Windows 3, because in 1995 windows 95 would have just came out. Most software lags a bit behind operating systems, because people are typically still running the old operating systems.

 

[Bamboozle]

Probably 3/4 of the insect classifications have changed since that was developed...

 

[troutbert]

There are certain drivers that don't work well with that big of a jump in OS. I doubt that you will be able to get it to run in windows 11. What you may be able to do is setup a virtual machine and load it with what I'm assuming is Windows 3, because in 1995 windows 95 would have just came out. Most software lags a bit behind operating systems, because people are typically still running the old operating systems.

This shows the advantages of printed documents. There are books that are centuries old that you can still just open up and read.

 

[BradFromPotter]

have a friend that does programs and an It. let me know Ill tell him.

Thanks Bob,
I found someone.

 

[BradFromPotter]

There are certain drivers that don't work well with that big of a jump in OS. I doubt that you will be able to get it to run in windows 11. What you may be able to do is setup a virtual machine and load it with what I'm assuming is Windows 3, because in 1995 windows 95 would have just came out. Most software lags a bit behind operating systems, because people are typically still running the old operating systems.

that what we are doing. Might or might not work. We'll see.

 

[dano]

If you can get it to run, could please let me know,...
I've tried DOSBOX emulator to no avail.

 

[salmonoid]

that what we are doing. Might or might not work. We'll see.

It's not so much the drivers but the bitness of the application, especially for something written for Windows 3.1. An application that old might still be 16-bit. We have a physics program that our faculty like installed, called Atoms in Motion. The installer still used 16-bit components, but I shimmed in some 32-bit libraries and got it to install. Still going strong.

In a nutshell, what did Flybase do?

 

[dano]

It was a program created in 1993? which used 4 floppy discs for installation.. It allowed you to create customized hatch charts for different regions across the US, It contained insect descriptions and behaviors through their stages along with suggested fly patterns for those stages. It gave the scientific names of the insect, including the correct pronunciations which I found to be spot on.