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Subject: Re: XP with Century

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:42:27 10/21/01

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On October 21, 2001 at 17:26:29, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 21, 2001 at 15:56:35, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 2001 at 11:34:06, Nolan Denson wrote:
>>
>>>I am having the same problem, I basically gave up.  On both of my operating
>>>systems it doesn't work ... On Xp no go .. it won't even attempt to start ..
>>>possibly do to the dos extentions ... i even tried the new feature in xp that
>>>allows it to run like old versions of windows.  But i also can't get it to work
>>>in WinMe as well.  It actually starts in Me but during processor speed
>>>calculation it never get the results.  I am using a Xeon P4 .
>>
>>It should run in Windows ME, as this is basically the same as 98 and 95. At
>>least it does on my PC!
>>XP is quite another story as this is based on the code from NT, 2000 and old the
>>old DOS heritage is supposed to gone!
>>
>>Torstein
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>I have never heard that all DOS support was supposed to be gone.
>
>I thought DOS boxes were still supported.
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>    Christophe

Looks like you are right, and I'm wrong. I found this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/dos_diffs.asp
at MS site.

So perhaps Century can run in a Window with a little "fixing up".

Torstein



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