Opening Windows Write (.WRI) files on modern versions of Windows with CWordpad
I have an old software that frequently generates reports in Windows Write (.WRI) format. No modern software running on Windows
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Office Reader 2.0, the best Word/Excel/Powerpoint/RTF/PDF viewer with superb backwards compatibility
Microsoft used to give free viewers for Office files (.DOC/,DOCX/.XLS/.XLSX/.PPT/.PPTX) as well as for Visio files (.VSD), These viewers work
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Open 16-bit Windows applications natively on 64-bit Windows using OTVDM/winevdm
In my previous post I described how to run 16-bit DOS applications on 64-bit Windows using NTVDMx64. This post will
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Open 16-bit DOS applications natively on 64-bit Windows using NTVDMx64
Running 16-bit DOS applications natively on 64-bit versions of Windows without the use of an emulator such as DOSBox is
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Twinhead A5020 566MHz Intel Celeron laptop
In order to play DOS and early Windows games, I searched eBay for a cheap laptop that can run Windows 98, preferably
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Opening Office 2007 documents on Windows 98
On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional
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HP Stream 14-bs153od 64GB eMMC 14″ laptop
I received the HP Stream 14-bs153od 14″ laptop with 64GB eMMC and 4GB RAM from a friend and spent a
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Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4
My first computer was a Tandy 1000 RSX. It has a 25MHz 80386SX processor, 4MB of RAM and 100MB hard disk
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Exploring PCx86, an IBM PC emulator written in JavaScript
I came across PCjs, a JavaScript-based emulator that supports many different vintage computer architectures and spent last week setting up my first web-based PC
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8086 Tiny Plus, a lightweight PC XT emulator with CGA/MCGA graphics
DosBox has always been my favorite emulator to experiment with vintage PC software, but I still love the idea of
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Using NFS to transfer files between Windows and MS-DOS 6.22
Although I successfully configured Microsoft Network Client 3.0 to access my shared folder on my Windows 7 machine, the setup eats up almost 100KB of
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Experimenting with DOSBox SVN-Daum, a custom DOSBox build by ykhwong
While watching a Youtube video that demonstrates how to use the Roland MT-32 MIDI synthesizer with DOSBox, I came across DOSBox
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