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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
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 |
Interesting reading, that.
If I had to use a program that only runs on older Windows and couldn't upgrade my main PC because of that, I'd buy an additional cheap Windows 10/11 laptop (or a lightly used business-class Windows 10 laptop). So I could run both modern applications on the newer computer and still use the older program on the old PC.
Because time goes on, unfortunately, and there will be fewer and fewer programs capable of running on Windows 7.