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On 11-10-11 09:47, Sean Dennis <=-
spoke to All about Blue Wave and Windows 7 <=-
Hi, everyone-
I've recently discovered that the Blue Wave reader (v2.30), DOSbox,
and Windows 7 play very, very nicely together. I'm using BW in DOSbox
in a full-screen session. It's amazing how well these old programs I
use work under Windows 7.
If anyone's interested about how to set BW up, it's pretty easy to do
if you're willing to spend about 10 minutes to do it. On my 3ghz
laptop, BW runs quite well even though it does consume 100% CPU usage (that is remedied in DOSbox's configuration if you are wanting to fix
it).
Just a little FYI.
Quite some time ago, I set up Bluewave using DOSBOX on a version of
Linux. I was using it to read QWK packets. There was a problem, which
I talked about on a DOSBOX forum. The link to the thread is:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=18242&highlight=bluewave
I don't know if the problem would exist when reading native BW packets.
In the end the problem turned out to be an error in the way BlueWave was written -- but which got patched by someone. I'd recommend reading that
forum thread.
Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
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