I am a mature developer with wide ranging experience. I can create this pawn shop software for you and do it right. I would suggest doing it in FoxPro. I have had extensive experience with pawn programs and understand how the system should work. A problem I have found with old DOS programs is that they tend to have text based databases. Text based databases tend to get corrupted over the years, while the program itself remains runnable. If your DOS program uses a text based database, it will probably not be possible to carry all data forward to the new program.