Seeking DOS/4GW.

[reddragdiva]

An activist associate is seeking a copy of the DOS extenders DOS/4G or DOS/4GW. Preferably a legitimate licensed copy (transferring the license over), if available at a reasonable price. The original vendor, Tenberry Software, still has a domain (paid up until 2008) and a website, but email bounces, the phone number tells you their voicemail box is full and the proprietor, Terry Colligan, hasn't been seen on the Net since 1998 or so.

I understand the program was also licensed for inclusion in Watcom C++, and may still be part of said package.

If you have a copy with paperwork that you can spare, they will even pay you for it. If you know what happened to Tenberry, and who owns the program now, that would be helpful to know. Least option - though still valued - is just getting an unlicensed copy of the damned thing.

(They have this .EXE they need to run. "Here's an assembler source file. Here's an .EXE we created with our own assembler and linker. You should be able to do the same with MASM." They tried with MASM and couldn't produce a working .EXE. So they have this .EXE from Mars, but would like to use it with more than 640K. And they know it works with DOS/4GW. They just need to get hold of a copy of that.)

[I got the above third-hand and you're getting it fourth-hand. If it makes no sense, that's why.]

There is an open source alternative called DOS/32 Advanced, or more commonly DOS32A. This looked quite promising in running DOS32A on Linux using dosemu and Wine. But I am told the people had some problems with getting DOS32A to work with their Martian .EXE; I'm not sure what.

Can anyone out there help some honest and upstanding troublemakers with some software? Give so they may grow!

Update: And DOS/4GW turns out still to be included in the present Open Watcom C++ compiler. Though I'm not clear on whether this includes a runtime environment conducive to the Martian .EXE, so let's assume we're still looking for a copy of DOS/4GW.

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

I assume you (or they) have tried the obvious?
http://google.com/search?q=DOS%2F4GW+exe+download

[reddragdiva]

Heh. No, I didn't. This copy and this one claim to be licensed. This one says they're owned by Rational, which is a frightening concept.