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Steve Hayes wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2023 16:16:59 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> wrote:
>
> >Steve Hayes wrote:
> >> Someone stole my laptop computer, and I'm beginning to be concerned
> >> that it may be irreplaceable.
> >>
> >> It was running Windows 7, 32-bit, and it seems that most, if not all,
> >> laptops sold nowadays with Windows installed are 64-bit, which means
> >> they won't run a lot of my software, and that means that they won't
> >> allow me to access a lot of the research data I have collected over
> >> the last 30 years.
> >
> > 64-bit Windows systems can run 32-bit software/programs just fine, so
> >I think you mean you (also) have *16-bit* software/programs which you
> >need to run. Correct?
>
> Yes, and 8-bit ones too. 32-bit Windows runs those just fine, at least
> all the ones I use regularly. There are some it doesn't, but that's a
> hardware rather than an O/S problem, something to do with clock speed.
> Programs written in TurboPascal, for example, won't run on faster
> machines.
"8-bit ones" sounds a bit strange, because all (IBM-like) PCs have
always been 16-bit. But perhaps you mean byte-level interpretive code or
some such. Can you give some more details about these "8-bit ones"?
Anyway, about this software, has it been written for Windows 1.x, 2.x,
3.0, 3.1, etc. and was running on 32-bit Windows 7? If so, WineVDM
mentioned by Ralph Fox may be a solution. Like Ralph, I have no
experience with WineVDM, but looking at the documentation, it seems that
it might fit the bill.
Another question: Are these really windows programs, i.e. GUI programs
which actually use windows and run in windows (note: lower case 'w',
i.e. the technology, not the (Microsoft) prodoct) or are they programs
which may use graphics, but run in a Command Prompt window?
If the latter, then I think these will run on 64-bit Windows as well.
I have no such graphics programs, but my non-graphics programs just run
(in a Command Prompt window) on my 64-bit Windows 11 system as they did
on my 32-bit XP and Vista systems (and 32-bit 8.1 system)
[Rest left for completeness:]
> > If so, tell us a bit what kind of software/programs those are, so
> >maybe 'we' can suggest other methods than setting up a Windows 7 (or 8?
> >or 10?) virtual machine.
>
> InMagic and askSam text databases are the main ones, XyWrite word
> processor, which I use, inter alia, for converting files from other
> old word processing programs, and for reporting from the text
> databases.
>
> It's not easily possible to print reports from the text database
> programs to Windows printers, but one can easily design reports that
> include XyWrite formatting commands, import the report into XyWrite,
> export it as RTF, and load it into a Windows word processor to produce
> formatted reports, though short reports can juse be copy/pasted.
> XyWrite formatting commands work in the same way as HTML ones, though
> the commands themselves are not the same.
>
> Just to give an example of copy/pasting, here:
>
> Best books read in 2023, sorted by rating:
>
> 87 Lewis, C.S. 1965 [1952] The voyage of the Dawn Treader.
>
> 85 Cooper, Susan. 2010 [1965] Over sea, under stone.
>
> 84 Carlisle, Clare. 2020. Philosopher of the Heart.
>
> 83 Tudor, C.J. 2017. The Chalk Man.
>
> 82 Hughes, Richard. 1964. The Fox in the Attic.
>
> 82 Robotham, Michael. 2009. Shatter.
>
> 82 Shaik, Moe. 2020. The ANC Spy Bible: Surviving across Enemy
> Lines.
>
> 81 Barrows, Annie. 2015. Magic in the Mix.
>
> 81 Erlings, Fridrik. 2006. Benjamin Dove.
>
> 81 Greene, Graham. 1975 [1938] Brighton Rock.
>
> 78 King, Stephen. 2000. On writing: a memoir.
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