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Title: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: marklaff on 2009.03.23, 15:01:17
Greetings,  Turns out I need so very old data stashed away in SAVERAM files, and even have a copy of LOADRAM.EXE which should be able to unpack them, but unfortunately no OS/2 to run.

(1) Is there a version of LOADRAM for WINxx?
(2) Is there a kind soul that could help me unpack the files (about 5MB)?

Thanks,


Mark
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2009.03.23, 15:32:38
Hey mark, I may be able to do it for you. I'll just install eCS in a virtual machine and extract that way.
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: DougB on 2009.03.24, 00:04:40
I seem to recall, that LOADRAM.EXE is a program that will run in both OS/2, and DOS, but I think that later versions of windows (the ones based on NT), aren't smart enough to run it. Probably worth trying.

Good luck...
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: marklaff on 2009.03.24, 00:24:42
Thanks, Doug.  Neither XP nor Vista will run loadram.exe.
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: DougB on 2009.03.24, 02:18:09
They are both based on NT. You need real DOS, or Windows 95, 98, or ME. I think that FreeDos might work too. It should work from a diskette boot, as long as you can get enough disk space to store the files.
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2009.03.24, 02:36:15
Worked fine for me under XP seeing as I extracted all the files and sent it to him ;P
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: marklaff on 2009.03.24, 03:16:31
Thank you sooo much...the files are saved! that must be how you earned the "hero" designation.

Believe it or not, these files are from 1992.

Thanks again,

Mark
Title: Re: [OLD FILES] I am a former OS/2 devotee with some old LOADRAM files
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2009.03.24, 03:21:34
Haha, no, I got hero member from posting too much. I doubt many feel I am a hero member as I can be quite contrary to the modus operandi.

In any case, any time, let me know if you need anything.