MONEY MANAGER was DOS in 1988, later published for Win 3.1

[yabbadoo]

Hi - I'm looking for the Windows 3.1 version of Money Manager. I'm STILL using (daily) the DOS version, which has consistently worked through all flavours of Windows up to/including W7. It's limited to 50 categories, and "print" no longer works (needs serial printer & string code).
Original publisher was Connect Software, but I believe they sold out to another Co (also now probably defunct). It does all I need, efficiently, is approx 400Kb incl all data. (was originally on a 5.25 floppy disk!)

I've tried several more sophisticated progs but cannot get the simple output screen reports I need, and they're complicated to set up and update.
DOS version doesn't need a password, the 3.1 version does (I've seen it once, long ago).

Can anyone help please?

[roipatrick]

MONEY MANAGER was DOS in 1988, later published for Win 3.1
Hi - I'm looking for the Windows 3.1 version of Money Manager. I'm STILL using (daily) the DOS version, which has consistently worked through all flavours of Windows up to/including W7. It's limited to 50 categories, and "print" no longer works (needs serial printer & string code).
Original publisher was Connect Software, but I believe they sold out to another Co (also now probably defunct). It does all I need, efficiently, is approx 400Kb incl all data. (was originally on a 5.25 floppy disk!)

I've tried several more sophisticated progs but cannot get the simple output screen reports I need, and they're complicated to set up and update.
DOS version doesn't need a password, the 3.1 version does (I've seen it once, long ago).

Can anyone help please?

Howdy Yabbadoo

According to this site "http://www.codelathe.com" you can download the Money Manager that is compatible with your operating system.
Kindly click HERE


If you still have questions, feel free to approach me

Thanks and Have a great day!

[yabbadoo]

Thank you for the reply. I signed up and downloaded the Codelathe Money Manager, together with the instruction manual (had to copy/paste into Word to do that)

Have struggled for several hours with set-up data entry - now abandoned it as far too complex to maintain versus the original DOS "Money Manager" program I already use, for which I requested the Win 3.1 version (or later) which I know exists. In that, data entry is simple - name an account. Within an account, there's user-defined categories ("1" = daily expense, "2" = utilities, "3" = auto, etc etc.)
Then there are "classes" each defined by 2 digit alpha-numeric + description. All that's then needed is a "Standard" list of regular recurring income/expenditure with dates and values, which list is used each month by simply pressing "y" (yes) to enter the entire dataline (category, date, class, DR/CR value). From scratch takes perhaps an hour to set up, and a couple of minutes to maintain/update/reconcile.
The "summary" is in effect a reconciled statement (datafile) for the entire year to date. It is 12 monthly periods, so every year is a new one. Prog can copy the entire file excl.values for the new year, all that's needed is a starting balance. More difficult to describe than to use - and with over 15 years worth of data, it STILL is less than 0.5Mb ....

[roipatrick]

Re: MONEY MANAGER was DOS in 1988, later published for Win 3.1
Thank you for the reply. I signed up and downloaded the Codelathe Money Manager, together with the instruction manual (had to copy/paste into Word to do that)

Have struggled for several hours with set-up data entry - now abandoned it as far too complex to maintain versus the original DOS "Money Manager" program I already use, for which I requested the Win 3.1 version (or later) which I know exists. In that, data entry is simple - name an account. Within an account, there's user-defined categories ("1" = daily expense, "2" = utilities, "3" = auto, etc etc.)
Then there are "classes" each defined by 2 digit alpha-numeric + description. All that's then needed is a "Standard" list of regular recurring income/expenditure with dates and values, which list is used each month by simply pressing "y" (yes) to enter the entire dataline (category, date, class, DR/CR value). From scratch takes perhaps an hour to set up, and a couple of minutes to maintain/update/reconcile.
The "summary" is in effect a reconciled statement (datafile) for the entire year to date. It is 12 monthly periods, so every year is a new one. Prog can copy the entire file excl.values for the new year, all that's needed is a starting balance. More difficult to describe than to use - and with over 15 years worth of data, it STILL is less than 0.5Mb ....

You can also try this link "http://excel-money-manager.fyxm.net/". Based on this site there are list of Money Manager that you can download which is compatible for all windows operating system.

kindly click HERE


Hope this one could help you a lot and save your time...


If you still have questions. feel free to approach me.


Thanks and Have a nice day!

[yabbadoo]

Thanks again, Roipatrick! Do appreciate your time and effort.

Downloaded and set up the Excel version. Easy to use, but needs every single daily entry to be manually completed. Time-consuming, with potential for keying error on every entry. The DOS prog user pre-defines accounts/categories/classes (as does Excel) BUT the key difference which makes it simple, quick and less prone to keying error is the pre-entered "Standard" list (with or without values) set up once a year. Thereafter, select a month, having selected it, key "s" (standard list) to cycle through the standard list line by line. Pressing "y" (yes) inserts the entire data line - a one character key press. (default is "n" (no) so just pressing "enter" skips that line (useful for entries not weekly or monthly, like insurance, etc). Once loaded in any order, keypress "o" will sort them into date order. There is an Insert mode for one-off entries.
There is an Edit ("e") mode for corrections, and Reconcilation is fiendishly simple - the month's data is displayed with the cursor in the reconcilation column - "y" inserts reconcilation character and displays the running total of reconciled value, moves down to next line.
Reports? Comprehensive - by one month, multiple months, or whole year, then by all or a single category, then by all or a single class.

The DOS prog is a database application. I have some Excel programming knowledge, but nowhere near enough to code this functionality (and alas, no Access database programming at all). The drawbacks of the DOS prog is it's limited to 50 classes (and it no longer prints) plus its screen size - cannot resize the (quarter-screen) display, it's DOS not Windows!

Which is why I'd like to get hold of the Windows version of my existing Money Manager .... doed everything I want and need, and it's stand-alone too.

[help_desk]

Oh man. That's a really really old version that you are after. I searched for last 20 minutes and I had no luck.

Hopefully someone in the future might come here and upload it. Keep an eye on this thread as its likely possible someone might come and post a link.

I wish you best of luck until then. Have a great weekend.

[yabbadoo]

Thanks for trying - appreciate the effort.
The Windows version does exist - friend found it online some years ago, and sent it to me. Alas, it needed an "unlock" key so wouldn't function. Clear that it was virtually identical to its DOS predecessor (same menu screens, same 1 or 2 character definitions, single letter keys to invoke functions).
I'm neither a dinosaur nor computer-illiterate, just like things simple. This works for me. The over-engineered successors provide far more functi9onality than I want or need, at the cost of far more keying effort, and I've yet to see the output of modern successors displayed the way I want it (essentially a total statement, searchable, reports by drill-down from total to category or single class) Do hope someone will remember a Windows 3.1 disk they've got gathering dust, with Money Manager (and key) .....
Thanks again

[Rozel]

Hi - I'm looking for the Windows 3.1 version of Money Manager. I'm STILL using (daily) the DOS version, which has consistently worked through all flavours of Windows up to/including W7. It's limited to 50 categories, and "print" no longer works (needs serial printer & string code).
Original publisher was Connect Software, but I believe they sold out to another Co (also now probably defunct). It does all I need, efficiently, is approx 400Kb incl all data. (was originally on a 5.25 floppy disk!)

I've tried several more sophisticated progs but cannot get the simple output screen reports I need, and they're complicated to set up and update.
DOS version doesn't need a password, the 3.1 version does (I've seen it once, long ago).

Can anyone help please?

[Rozel]

I have a copy of Money Manager for DOS working on an old HP Brio running Windows 2000 Pro. Since I have no printer connected to the machine - my printer isn't compatible but runs on my other machine with Windows XP - I print reports to PDF using DOSprn 1.72 and PDFXchange Viewer as required. Should I need to print hard copies then I transfer files to my other computer as necessary.
If your installation of Money Manager is corrupt as can happen let me know at:
rozel@maltanet.net
then I may be able to send you a copy.

[yabbadoo]

Thanks, Rozel - I'll contact you separately (would be good compare your files with mine)
However, I'd like to keep the thread open. Reason - as per original post - the DOS version is limited to just 50 "class" codes. I suspect the Windows version may be more generous in that respect.