mirac dos and window98 era

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mirac dos and window98 era

Post by masroorkhan » Wed 22 Apr , 2015 20:01 pm

is there any way to run the mirac software on window 7.

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Re: mirac dos and window98 era

Post by Martin » Wed 22 Apr , 2015 20:15 pm

What version of turning software are you wanting to run?

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Re: mirac dos and window98 era

Post by TDIPower » Wed 22 Apr , 2015 22:25 pm

Judging by the title DOS and Win 98, The design of 'modern' computers is such that you can't run DOS based software on them the CPU can't do it. Im not sure if it is possible to run DOSbox on an older PC that is running Win7 OS though.

So really it would depend on the processor/mother board. If you are running any of the Intel i3 i5 i7 then no is the answer (don't know about the duel core or AMD stuff) you would be better finding an old Pentium based machine for it.

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Re: mirac dos and window98 era

Post by Martin » Thu 23 Apr , 2015 6:19 am

I missed the giveaway in the title.

Depending on the control fitted Denfords may be able to offer a software upgrade. we would need the machine serial number to look it up first though.

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Re: mirac dos and window98 era

Post by gilles310 » Thu 23 Apr , 2015 11:19 am

you can copy the programm with external "dikette reader" from pc win7 and put it in w98 pc.
i do this and it work perfect.
denford mirac oct 1989 knew canned cycles (for exemple G71 G76 ) so you can use recent software correctly postprocessed with fanuc.
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