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Re: Leaving XP for Windows 7 at last




I second Carl's assessment. vDosXy is trivial to set up and works
flawlessly. (I'm running a slightly different version, with file size
376,320 bytes.) Much better, at least for my purposes, than running
XyWrite in "XP Mode".


Martin

On 04/11/2015 6:07 PM, Carl Distefano wrote:
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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