On Friday 27 November 2009 13:23:05 Ken Heard wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > VBox will still provide your full virtualized CPU; so if trying DOS, > > disable as much as you can, like hardware support for virtualization. Be > > sure you run in a 32-bit mode. DOS is not compatible with the most > > recent CPUs from Intel. 16-bit support is there (barely), but the > > chipset and motherboard will make it dicey. 64-bit mode is completely > > incompatible with a 16-bit program. > > > > For what you are doing, I think VBox is a good choice. > > I presently have a dual core Intel CPU running in 32 bit mode with > Lenny. Dosemu works quite well on it. I think I should be able to run > Windows 98 with WP 7 or higher in VBox. The VBox website says that VBox > users have run Windows 98 on VBox successfully, but nobody on the VBox > team has tried it. When I was still using Windows 98 (I have never used > any Windows version later than 98 because I changed over to Linux > instead of upgrading Windows.) I had no trouble with WP 7. It remains > to be seen whether a later version of WP will work on Windows 98; I have > WP 12 to try. > > Regards, Ken Heard
have you tried opening your WP files with Openoffice writer? My WP files were created with WP8, OO works with them. I know WP's file format has been the same for years, though I think there was change after 5.2 ? -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org