Starturn 8 IBM DOS software

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Starturn 8 IBM DOS software

Post by bradders » Mon 17 Aug , 2009 10:21 am

Customer writes ..........

We have bought a 1989 Starturn 8 from a college and are trying to get it up and running. The best bet we can come up with software wise, is the "Starturn very old DOS software" off the Denford web site. But we get a "DONGLE NOT FOUND" error message when trying to run the software

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Re: Starturn 8 IBM DOS software

Post by bradders » Mon 17 Aug , 2009 10:22 am

Mr Magoo reply ............

This old stuff used the machine as the dongle.

It first checks for the machine connected and if it finds it then runs OK. If not then it checks for a dongle and if not present it shows the “dongle not found” message

So sounds like it’s not found the machine. Look in the readme.txt file in that ZIP for more clues

Best I can offer I’m afraid

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