I haven't been using my Songs of the Newfoundland Outports program lately. I recently installed Windows 8.1 Update, and decided to see if I could get the Outports program to run.

No cigar. In fact, the program opened and then wouldn't allow me to close it.

I went to the instructions for installing on Windows Vista - they're not at their original location, but you can still view them at archive.org. BUT I couldn't get very far.

The instructions say to create a new folder on the C Drive which we will name "pdoxusrs." OK, did that.

Then it wants me to go to an icon on Control Panel called BDE Administrator, but it ain't there. BDE administrator is supposed to control C:\\Program Files\Common Files\Borland Shared\something-something.cfg

Well, there are Microsoft and Symantec shared files, but no Borland files.

I take it that the "Outports" program was built on Borland Paradox. Paradox is now owned by Corel.

Anybody know how I can make this thing work? It was really nice when it worked. I guess you can't expect computer programs to work forever.

-Joe-

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I note that GEST now has lyrics for all of the Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, which is very nice. The CD-ROM has MIDI files and actual recordings of the songs, which is also very nice.