Re: Leaving XP for Windows 7 at last

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

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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