9 replies to this topic

[sampatkumar]

hello freinds
i have tried installing turbo c on my laptop having windows vista as its operating system..nw the issue is.. the screen or window is small..so is thr any other way or adiiferent version of turbo c which will help me use turbo c with its reagular big screen on my windows vista...

[Ancient Dragon]

Get a larget monitor for your laptop, get binarculars, or don't use that ancient, outdated, obsolete turbo c. Get Code::Blocks (free) and it will make use of the entire monitor.

[sampatkumar]

that was not funny....my dear friend..as iam learning c programming langauge for the first time..so i do have concerns.....
now using binoculars will not work....well i believe thr is some misunderstanding..
what i said is that if i open turboc window to write the code...iam unable 2 enlarge the window so that it would cover entire laptop screen..thrs no issue with writing a code or its compilation..
can you help me...

[Warrior]

if it's not opening in full screen then your os doesn't supports 16 bit DOS mode.
BTW try not to use turbo c as it's obsolete,you will miss the new changes in the c language if you use that...get codeblocks it will run most of the programs you can run on turbo c
Code::Blocks

But if you really wan't full screen mode get DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

[Ancient Dragon]

>>now using binoculars will not work....well i believe thr is some misunderstanding..

No misunderstanding -- that was meant to be a little scarcastic comment :)

[WingedPanther]

Turbo C is a dinosaur. DO NOT USE IT.

[Ancient Dragon]

Unfortunately, many universities in India require their students to use Turbo C. Why is beyond me especially when there are so many free modern compilers. Such universities are robbing their students of a good education.

[Warrior]

Ancient Dragon said:

Unfortunately, many universities in India require their students to use Turbo C. Why is beyond me especially when there are so many free modern compilers. Such universities are robbing their students of a good education.

yes that was a problem with me also.....some of them have developed an addiction for Turbo c which is unknown to me why.....

[zoranh]

You may try to install DOSBox on Vista and then install Turbo C in it. I've used that for some very old programs and it worked perfectly on XP and Vista.

[Ancient Dragon]

@zoranh: Thank you for that link and suggestion :) I installed DosBox on 64-bit Windows 7 and its working perfectly :)


For others who may also be a little confused about DosBox, here is a link you will want to read that will tell you how to access the files on c: drive.