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Mon, 05 January 2015 19:57

rolfverberg

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For some reason, to do with my home router or internet, I can't login to autohost, so I've been very quiet for a long while. Sorry...

I'm out of town now with internet that works Smile

Anyway, I just had my laptop crash while on another trip and got a new one with Windows 8.1. I expected lots of trouble after having read these posts earlier, but I had in fact an easy ride. I first tried to run that Dosbox thingy as instructed somewhere else in this thread and that worked totally as advertized. I also found out though that the resolution was a pain and of course it didn't really address another issue and that was that my C++ compiler (an old one, MS Dev Studio '97) didn't like 64 bits either. I kinda hate to admit that here, but that was almost more painful than not being able to play stars in a decent resolution...

So, I figured I'll try the other suggested approach as well and install a Virtual PC. That went smooth as can be. Just followed the instructions and made the Virtual PC install and a virtual 25GB "hard drive". Then installed Vista, for which I had a legal installation disk. I totally prefer XP, but didn't have an installation disk at hand. The short story is, Stars ran fine in the Virtual PC under Vista. My C++ developer studio as well. Life is good again Smile

Thanks for the discussion on the Windows 7 issue! The proposed solutions work just as well under Windows 8.1.

Cheers, Rolf.

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