On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:37:06AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:45 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > >> I'm trying to help someone run Einstein Writer under QEMU. I set up a >> virtual machine and installed FreeDos on it. >> >> I found a demo of Einstein which is supposed to be a running version >> of it. >> >> When I start it up, I get a few English words and a lot of junk on the >> screen. I assume I am missing installing Hebrew support in the virtual >> video card. >> >> I did a web search and found a wikipedia entry for codepage 862. I >> tried to load it with the FreeDos command display con=(ega,862,1). It >> loads, but I still get garbage. >> >> Any ideas? >> > > To answer my own question, I found a dos boot disk complete with the > necessary files and Einstein all on it. It was designed for a different > virtualization system, but it works with QEMU: > > http://masa0000.googlepages.com/eini.zip > > >> Alternatively is there a way to convert EinsteinWriter files to >> something useable without Einstein itself? > > > Still looking for an answer.
IIRC it was mostly text with rather simple controls ("escape sequences") for markup. Did you look at its files? -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il