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I can run Audacity, plus my map software from National Geographic, CDEX for ripping CD’s, and Terragen for making virtual landscapes. I can run ReBirth, which emulates the TB-303 bassline synthesizer. I can run a classic DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) called Acid 2.0.
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#DOSBOX CALMIRA 2 INSTALL#
I can install my beloved Cakewalk Kinetic but I can’t get it to see my sound card (yet). I can’t get it to run any of my software from Magix except the one I use for authoring DVDs. For me, WINE is an acronym that stands for WINdows Emulator. It officially stands for “WINE Is Not an Emulator” and I guess that’s true, it’s a “compatibility layer”. But Micro$loth programs don’t run on Linux unless you help them along with a program called WINE. Word processors and spreadsheets are one thing, but let’s face it, the most efficient way to waste time at work is with MS Windows Solitaire. You can even clone a snapshot, grow new branches, and take snapshots down those side trails as well. After booting once you need never boot again. With VirtualBox you can even take a snapshot of the machine state and return to exactly where you left off, as though you could freeze time. Shown here is Debian Linux running XP in a window, along with other DOSbox windows running Windows 3.1 and Wordstar for good measure. The first thing I do is set it to look like Windows 2000, and then take care of the popups in RegEdit by making a zeroed-out keyword “EnableBalloonTips” in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advancedįriends on Twitter tell me they don’t run Linux because they use Microsoft Access, and that only runs under Windows, and the Windows emulator WINE isn’t ready for prime time. Windows XP is fairly painless to install, but the default is the Fisher-Price “Luna” theme, with annoying balloons that pop up. Opera 9.60 is the last version that runs on this OS.
#DOSBOX CALMIRA 2 DRIVER#
Installing a display driver is even more of a pain in the ass than under NT4, but after I do that Win2K already looks the way I want all my operating systems to look.
#DOSBOX CALMIRA 2 PRO#
Windows 2000 Pro SP 4 installed on VirtualBox under Linux. This is oldest operating system I can drive out onto the World Wide Web, since Windows 95 keeps kicking my ass. Google looks like shit, but Bing seems to render okay. Opera version 8.53 is the last version to work with Windows NT4 and pretty much the only option as browsers go. Only very primitive websites (such as my own) will render at all. It’s like being in the middle of the freeway with a tricycle.
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This is NT after a driver was installed for 24 bit color 1024×768 pixels, and I have Internet Explorer 2.0 running. Also, you have to change the settings so it doesn’t open a new window for every folder you enter. As such, it has the same annoyances as Windows 95, such as creating a shortcut to an executable by default when you drag its icon to the desktop. This version is basically the same as NT 3.51 but uses the Windows 95 “Taskbar/Desktop-as-Folder” paradigm that has become ubiquitous ever since. This is a fresh installation of Windows NT 4.0 for Workstations (1996) with the default 16 color 800×600 pixel VGA display.