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Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...

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From: Alan Bowler
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 16:54
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On 2018-04-24 3:55 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 
> FWIW, on a personal note, I looked into running an emulator
> so I could run old DOS/Windows applications.  However,
> installing it seemed difficult (it's possible I needed to
> simply devote more time to it.)  However, I have little desire
> to "hexedit the configuration file" to make it all work.

For plain DOS programs there is
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox0.74-win32-installer.exe/download

which seems good enough to run Rogue
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From: Alan Bowler <atbo...@thinkage.ca>
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Subject: Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 12:54:49 -0400
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