Re: VirtualBox or VMware?
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
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