Re: Leaving XP for Windows 7 at last

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Quoting Phillip Alder:

> Lynn,
>
> If you put Windows XP in a virtual machine on your computer, you can
> have the XP running XyWrite and 7 controlling everything else.


I was very happy running XyWrite in a W2K virtual machine under
Windows 7 (via VirtualBox). I switched to vDosXy when it came along
because it does a great job of integrating our ancient program with
current versions of Windows.


Lynn, if you're more interested in running Xy as a freestanding
program (as opposed to having it interact with Windows programs), I
would give serious consideration to running XyWrite in a virtual
machine. On the other hand, vDosXy is so easy to set up, and works so
well, that you can hardly lose by trying it. As to which version works
best, I don't know that there's a consensus, but the one I find most
stable is Kari's version 1.00:


vDosXy version 1.00 (aka version 2014-12-16)
How to tell it apart: size 368 KB, has the following config.txt
options: euro=off (to show C cedilla), title=titletext, blinkc=ON (for
a blinking cursor)

Source files:
https://github.com/catastrophicanomaly/vDosXY3/releases/tag/vdos20141019_mod20141216

For what it's worth, I find Windows 7 very satisfactory. It's stable
and does what you want an operating system to do: it just works.


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Carl Distefano
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