HEC-1 Installation on 64 bit machines? 2

[beej67]

I need HEC-1 to run some old models. I can't seem to install it on my new fangled 64 bit Windows 7 machine, because the 75 bit file "ASKME.COM" isn't compatible with 64 bit machines. Somehow.

Anybody know where I can get a hold of a version of HEC-1 that runs on modern hardware?

(thank god I've got an old desktop machine I can run it on)


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[gbam]

Beej67 - are you good with visual basic? I may have a hec1 model triggered in an excel spreadsheet using visual basic. i will look around for it. I am not sure if it will work or not, however. Also in the old XP days we set up batch files that ran the executable with out the coeditor. The difficulty was coding the correct card order/spacing in notepad until the Corps updated the HEC1 model. So to help with that I wrote an excel spreadsheet to format the text to meet the required justification and spacing. I no longer have the spreadsheet for that (was a lifetimne ago).

 

[beej67]

If by "good" you mean "when I discover a bug in some code I wrote, I fix it by putting a big sign in Excel saying 'DON'T DO X OR THIS SHEET BREAKS'" then yeah, I'm tip top.



If you run across it, shoot me an email. I'd love to see it.

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[SMIAH]

Didn't try it yet but there's a software called Dosbox.

http://www.dosbox.com/

 

[SMIAH]

Maybe a virtual machine more.

 

[beej67]

Interesting. Thanks SMIAH. Could work.

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[francesca]

I was going to suggest HEC-HMS, but I see you've tried that already.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=283995

If you have access to WMS, that's a HEC-1 wrapper.

 

[beej67]

Yeah, I got it running back then, but I've upgraded my machine since then and needed to make some adjustments. Thankfully I still keep the old one around as a backup. Might be prudent to keep it permanently, it seems.

I'm definitely going to try that emulator though.

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[Drew08]

Try installing HEC-1 this way to avoid using the ASKME.COM file:

Download hec1pkgv4.1.exe at

http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/legacysoftware/hec1/hec1-download.htm

This is nothing more than a zip file. So, change the extender to .zip. Open up hec1pakgv4.1.zip > HEC1EXE.ZIP and extract only the file HEC1.EXE

This is a dos executable, and should be the only file you need in that package to run HEC-1.

Put the HEC1.EXE file in the same folder that contains the input file. When you run HEC1.EXE it will prompt you to specify the input file. Do so making sure to add the .XXX extender. Then enter the desired output file name, I usually use the same input file name with a different extender like .out or .h1o, but it doesn't matter. And, leave the DSS Filename blank.

The output file is a text file that can be opened in notepad or wordpad.

 

[beej67]

Perfect. Thanks Drew08.

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