From: corey@tsgc.synchro.net.remove-kyb-this   
      
     To: Nathan   
     Re: Re: Worldgroup 2.0 and Windows 2000   
     By: Nathan to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Sun Apr 08 2007 09:56 pm   
      
    > Corey wrote:   
    >   
    > >   To: Nathan   
    > >   Re: Worldgroup 2.0 and Windows 2000   
    > >   By: Nathan to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Sun Apr 08 2007 08:20 pm   
    > >   
    > >  > In my ongoing struggle to setup some sort of remotely manageable system   
    > >  > to run my WG2.0 BBS on...  I;ve come to the question "Will wg2.0 run on   
    > >  > Windows 2000/xp"?   
    > >  >   
    > >  > I know it is possible to run WG2.0 in older versions of windows, like   
    > >  > 95/98.  But what about 2000?  2000 doesnt really have DOS anymore, like   
    > >  > 9x does.  Is it possible to make it run without some sort of virtual   
    > >  > machine?   
    > >  >   
    > >  > Thanks!   
    > >   
    > > not on a NT based OS because it won't let it make direct hardware calls.   
    > >   
    > Man, how do you know all this?  :P   
    >   
    > I thought that might be a problem.  If the drive were formatted as fat   
    > instead of ntfs, would it make a difference?   
    >   
    > Wind98 is still an option, just thought 2K might offer a more stable   
    > platform.   
    >   
    > Thanks!   
      
   I ran/run mbbs and wg.   
   it's not the file system, nt don't handle 16bit code very well, and the   
   programs were written on a 286 compter. and are not made to run on a nt   
   based os which won't allow direct hardware calls. now wg 3.2 was written   
   on Windows Nt 3.51 and can handle a NT based os. but still will have some   
   problems on xp and higher which don't do 16bit code very well anymore.   
      
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