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 -=> On 11-10-11  09:47,  Sean Dennis <=-
 -=> spoke to All about Blue Wave and Windows 7 <=-

 SD> Hi, everyone-

 SD> I've recently discovered that the Blue Wave reader (v2.30), DOSbox,
 SD> and Windows 7 play very, very nicely together.  I'm using BW in DOSbox
 SD> in a full-screen session.  It's amazing how well these old programs I
 SD> use work under Windows 7.

 SD> If anyone's interested about how to set BW up, it's pretty easy to do
 SD> if you're willing to spend about 10 minutes to do it.  On my 3ghz
 SD> laptop, BW runs quite well even though it does consume 100% CPU usage
 SD> (that is remedied in DOSbox's configuration if you are wanting to fix
 SD> it). 
 SD> Just a little FYI.

Quite some time ago, I set up Bluewave using DOSBOX on a version of
Linux.  I was using it to read QWK packets.  There was a problem, which
I talked about on a DOSBOX forum.   The link to the thread is:

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=18242&highlight=bluewave

I don't know if the problem would exist when reading native BW packets.

In the end the problem turned out to be an error in the way BlueWave was
written -- but which got patched by someone.  I'd recommend reading that
forum thread.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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