Seeking DOS/4GW.

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.

Australians: I would so love a DVD or tape of this!

Courtesy andricongirl:

Catalyst: Design By Fungus

"Dr Cameron Jones could be a genius; his colleagues even think he could shape our future. Others think he could be the Renaissance man for the 21st century, because he’s inventing ways for science and art to merge. Amazingly, one of the ways he’s doing it is by growing fungus on CD’s. So Catalyst reporter Graham Phillips went to meet him at the lab, but it turned out he’s doing his best work at night. He’s co-owner of Blue Velvet Bar & Nightclub; it’s a joint venture with his mum. It’s here in this purpose built boutique venue that Jones uses DJ equipment to create a crossover between Mathematical Modeling and art performance. If this seems all too weird, wait till you see what happens when he grows fungus on CD’s."

It's on Thursday at 8pm. If someone could please do us a DVD, tape or even MPEG of this, it would be most welcomed and certainly rate you a Christmas card or better.

(Blue Velvet is my favourite goth bar in history. I used to live literally around the corner from it. I miss it terribly. Where else could you go for drunken arguments about the future of science and computing with your Ph.D. barman? And the beer was much better than the Dev. But that's saying remarkably little.)

Update: zotz, please try again. I'll leave the duplicate to you this time!

Whitby April 2003.

Just found my notes. ( Hell, why not. )

My pics (still nowhere near complete); arkady's pics.