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    From DALLAS VINSON@1:116/18 to mark lewis on Sun Feb 21 00:29:42 2016
    Just downloaded the latest Multimail from sourceforge. the text was way
    tiny to the point I couldn't read it, and it didn't scale when I
    expanded the window.

    I would really like to use Blue Wave, but it wouldn't run on my Win10
    system.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to DALLAS VINSON on Sun Feb 21 11:47:12 2016

    21 Feb 16 00:29, you wrote to me:

    Just downloaded the latest Multimail from sourceforge. the text was
    way tiny to the point I couldn't read it, and it didn't scale when I expanded the window.

    don't scale the window... adjust the font size in that process' properties... if it is the winwhatever flavor, that may not work and you might want to get the 32bit DOS version which winwhatever generally does allow the fonts to be adjusted for... instead of 8x12 or whatever the default is, double or triple both numbers to maintain the aspect ratio... those are the screen pixels for widthxheight...

    I would really like to use Blue Wave, but it wouldn't run on my Win10 system.

    i don't have any winwhatever newer than Vista and only one of those left... on this newer shite that's being excreted, you have to use emulators to be able to
    run old DOS 16bit code... that means using their hyper-v, adding xp mode, or something like dosbox, virtualPC, vmware, and similar... you may have to run the VM in fullscreen mode if your screen resolution in the host is high making everything look small like a helicopter hovering at 1000feet over your neighborhood instead of at 100feet where things are easier to see but you can't
    see as much...

    )\/(ark

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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.1 to DALLAS VINSON on Mon Feb 22 18:15:56 2016
    DALLAS VINSON wrote in a message to mark lewis:

    I would really like to use Blue Wave, but it wouldn't run on my
    Win10 system.

    Bluewave works perfectly under DosBox which is a free emulator.

    Shawn
    ... You're a Redneck if you give your wife a shotgun for Christmas.
    --- timEd 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Tiny's Trailer (1:229/452.1)
  • From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Shawn Highfield on Tue Feb 23 01:59:00 2016
    On 02-22-16 18:15, Shawn Highfield <=-
    spoke to Dallas Vinson about multimail <=-


    I would really like to use Blue Wave, but it wouldn't run on my
    Win10 system.

    Bluewave works perfectly under DosBox which is a free emulator.

    Actually, it does have a few problems there. To start with, there is a
    bug having to do with its update of the message flags. That has been
    fixed via a patch by someone on the dosbox forum, vogons.org. I just
    looked and could not find the messages talking about it -- they were
    quite a while ago. I could probably find the patch for anyone
    interested and email it to you. Or Mark Lewis may have it on his BBS
    site?

    The second problem is annoying, and cannot be fixed. It has to do with
    the date/time stamp on the QWK file. In normal DOS, Bluewave leaves
    that stamp alone -- and in fact uses an index based on the stamp to give
    you info about the QWK packet in the future. In DOSBOX, the date/time
    stamp gets updated each time you open the file. For that reason, I use Bluewave in a virtual window running XP.

    Dale Shipp
    fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
    (1:261/1466)



    ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 02:09:26, 23 Feb 2016
    ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30

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