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   VADV      Support for the Virtual Advanced BBS      53 messages   

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   ROBERT WOLFE to Ben Ritchey   
   Re: VBBS/VADV   
   10 Jan 16 15:13:22   
   
   On 12/03/13 05:40 pm, Ben Ritchey wrote:   
      
   >   JC>  I was curious... I tried downloading the VADV and running it on my   
   >   JC>  server, but my server is 64bit and it said it wouldn't run because of   
   >   JC>  that.  Is there any way to get around that?   
   >   
   > Not really get around, but I run Wins 7 64-bit along with Microsoft's Virtual   
   > XP Mode (free for Pro users) which gives me a 32-bit WinXP environment for   
   all   
   > my DOS stuff. Works great here ... I'm fairly certain it would run in  this   
   VM   
   > :)   
      
   FWIW I have VA 2.10 for DOS running under 64-bit Windows 7 Pro using    
   Oracle's VirtualBox.  The guest OS I have it running under is, in fact,    
   eComStation 2.2 beta 2 using SIO2k and it's VMODEM and Vx00.SYS drivers    
   to handle the BBS' telnet abilities.   
   --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
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