Old guys!
Does anybody know who designed promash? And does anybody still use it? I moved on to beersmith but was just wondering about that program.
Jeff Donovan designed it. I think the last update was ‘03 or something.
I use BeerSmith 3 Mobile.
This old guy is still using Promash. 
Me too. I see no reason to change, yea, I am an old guy. I have been using it for 15 years and I know it well.
I had just started using Promash a year or two before it ended. It was a rather difficult program to use and I had stacks of printed instructions to do various things that I had found online at the time. Like the OP I ended up with Beersmith (another steep learning curve) and have stuck with that. If I remember correctly the developers wife was diagnosed with cancer and he shelved the software to focus on his family.
I still have the 3 floppy discs it came on, but I’ve been using beersmith for a long time.
I still use some of the functions it and I compare recipes written in other apps to see what they look like in PM. It’s still capable, viable,software.
That’s great. I was at a lhbs and they had no idea what I was talking about. I will have to dig it out and see if I can still use it.
I run Promash on an old laptop that I have. I’m not sure that I could get it to run on the current Windows version. Has anyone accomplished that?
if it was running on XP, you could get a virtual OS like https://www.virtualbox.org/ and install win xp on a virtual partition if not use some simpler and newer virtual OS. im on linux and there are a multitude of programs to run windows programs under different windows versions.
the virtualbox thing sounds like a pain but if you are fairly competent with computers you could promash going after an XP install in 20 mins or so.
It runs fine under Windows 10, although when I upgraded to Win 10, the “help” function no longer works. I don’t know how it would work under Win 11.
I run Promash on an old laptop that I have. I’m not sure that I could get it to run on the current Windows version. Has anyone accomplished that?
I haven’t run it in forever but prompted by your post I just found it on my Windows 11 laptop. It started right up and seems to work fine.
I’m running it on Win10
Get a program called WinHelp32 and it will read the help files
Unfortunately, ProMash seems dead. I was able to run in a Windows 7 VM (used the free VMware Workstation).
However, I’ve now moved onto BeerSmith. IMO, BeerSmith is far better than ProMash.
I run PM on both Win 7 & 10, no problem. Nothing special. I’ve always preferred it to Beersmith, and now I pfreer Grainfather software to either.
Going by memory with the following. I may be incorrectly remembering as it’s been a while since I used ProMash. I don’t believe ProMash is so equipment dependent as BS.
I will admit, when I was using ProMash, early 1990’s, I really didn’t know what I was doing. I look at my brewing notes from that time and now think “What was I thinking!”.
I copied the 3 ProMash 3.5 floppies onto a USB drive and still the ProMash patch/update in case I ever need it.
I use it on Windows 11. It has a couple of minor glitches but nothing big. I basically brew one or two styles of beer and use it to keep a log of how the brews are going. I do the same with my online blog so when my computer crashes like in the past, I have brew sessions to go by.
I still use it on WIN XP in VM. As you have said it still works great.