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   Dale Shipp to Sean Dennis   
   Re: Blue Wave and Window   
   10 Nov 11 23:43:00   
   
    * Reply to msg originally in Cooking   
      
    -=> 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)   
      
      
   ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 23:46:49, 10 Nov 2011   
   ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30   
      
   --- Maximus/NT 3.01   
    * Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466)   

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