Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Ah - - well if Kari couldn't figure out how to make NB3 work well
with Win2K, then I'm sure nobody can. Kari, when you say NB3 under
W2K, do you mean W2K running native or virtual? If virtual, was it
under VirtualBox? Is it possible that W2K under VMware would act
differently as regards NB3?


At 09/03/2014 09:18, you wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> Nice to hear that there are other NB3 users besides me. My
> experience has been that NB3 does not work well in W2K or anything
> from W95 upwards. The difference between Xy4 Editor.exe and Nb3
> nb.exe + editor.ov3 is quite big. Under W2K, NB3 starts very
> sluggishly, whereas Xy4 works like a charm. Therefore, I am using
> VirtualPC 2007 + DOS additions 2004 to run DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11
> and windowed DOS boxes under this to have a responsive system. If
> you know some trick to coax better performance out of NB3 under a
> more modern environment, I would be more than interested to hear
> about it. VirtualPC 2007 will not be updated and admittedly has some
> flaws that should be addressed, so it is no more a mainstream
> solution, but it is the best that I have found for running NB 3.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> 9.3.2014 3:58, James Woolley wrote:
> > My goal is to be able to continue using Nota Bene v. 3 (which I think =
> > XyWrite 3.57) and some other legacy software for a few more years.