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Originally Posted by davidfor
If there is actually some demand, I might consider creating a driver that adds the device ids and can be installed in older calibre.
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Hi, David. Your time is valuable indeed, but I'd certainly be grateful for a driver that could be installed in calbre 4.23.
I am sticking with Windows 7 32-bit. I do all my writing (as does George R.R. Martin, and some other professional writers) with WordStar for DOS (although I use version 7.0 and George prefers 4.0). My reasons are here:
https://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
I've tried all the major DOS emulators that run under Windows (DOSBox, vDos, vDosPlus, and DOSBox-x, and indeed
I maintain a web page on using WordStar under vDosPlus, but none of the emulations run nearly as fast as the NTVDM on a 32-bit machine (NTVDM won't run at all on 64-bit machines), and the speed
does make a real difference when you're zipping back-and-forth in the 100,000-word novels I write. Every other application is secondary to my use of my computer for writing, so I won't be upgrading beyond Windows 7 for years to come.
On the other hand, I'm quite tempted to upgrade (or supplement) my trusty Kobo Clara HD with the new Libra 2 -- but the lack of a driver for calibre 4.23 for that device is keeping me from doing so.
All best wishes, and many thanks for your consideration.
Rob