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running turbo c in windows vista?

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running turbo c in windows vista?, it won't go into full screen mode.
gkgranada
post 4 Sep, 2008 - 04:34 AM
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i just bought a laptop that was already preinstalled with the vista os.

i kind of don't want to spend another couple thousand pesos to buy xp, unless i absolutely have to.

the problem is it won't go into full screen mode, so though i can still do the simple programs, i can't practice my graphics, or make any programs that include graphics (i'm a student).

is there any way i could make turbo c compatible to vista? what can i do?

i'd be absolutely grateful for any help i can get.
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 04:36 AM
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Check out the following:

http://justmyself.wordpress.com/2007/11/28...-windows-vista/
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 05:09 AM
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You can't run DOS programs in fullscreen with Vista.
You can however run them in an Emulator such as DOSBox and then view it in fullscreen.

EDIT: Click Amadeus' link for instructions.
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 06:43 AM
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Can you use a compiler from this century instead? What the hell is it with Turbo C?
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 07:05 AM
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An excellent contribution to this thread...well done.
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 07:43 AM
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QUOTE(JackOfAllTrades @ 4 Sep, 2008 - 09:43 AM) *

Can you use a compiler from this century instead? What the hell is it with Turbo C?

QUOTE(Amadeus @ 4 Sep, 2008 - 10:05 AM) *

An excellent contribution to this thread...well done.

I've asked this question myself. There are myriad compilers and IDEs that are much more up to date... I don't know what this insistence on using a compiler that's approaching it's second decade without an update is about...
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Code::Blocks is an excellent IDE ( it comes bundled with the MinGW compiler ) you should give it a try ( http://www.codeblocks.org/ )
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 08:46 AM
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I get the feeling there are bunch of old, tenured CompSci professors out there who can't be bothered to stay in touch with current events in the industry and avoid doing so particularly because that would mean they'd have to actually work and update their course materials.
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QUOTE(JackOfAllTrades @ 4 Sep, 2008 - 11:46 AM) *

I get the feeling there are bunch of old, tenured CompSci professors out there who can't be bothered to stay in touch with current events in the industry and avoid doing so particularly because that would mean they'd have to actually work and update their course materials.

Eh... Maybe.

This will probably sound horrible and maybe racist, but really, no offense is meant:

I've noticed that it's mainly students who have Indian login names or mark their country as India that are using Turbo C++. They obviously have the Internet, so what's stopping them from taking 10 seconds and downloading something new? Could it be laziness on the professors part? Possible. I would be really surprised though.
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 11:14 PM
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Could it be laziness on the professors part?

Yes, I had a C++ class last year and the professors asked everyone to get a copy of Turbo C++.
It's the same with every college here, and it sucks.
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 11:27 PM
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Yes, even I faced that problem few years back when I was in school. When I asked my teacher about why Turbo C++ and not Dev C++ [which was the best choice then] he said that they want us to work with IDE which provide very less help in development [auto complete like features makes you dependent and blah blah blah]. blink.gif When we started it in Linux it was gcc and VI. and Guess what when we started with Java they asked us to use notepad with command line based compiler. mad.gif

But I used to follow them in school labs only. smile.gif
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post 5 Sep, 2008 - 07:48 AM
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Wow.... In all my programming classes the teachers were like "I don't care what compiler/IDE you use, just so long as it compiles with *this* compiler."
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