[Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 23:43:33 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> DW4 will run on anything that has a fairly modern JVM.  This includes
>> all versions of Windows from XP to 8.  It can work on even older
>> versions, down to Windows 95, but the current build does not.  It also
>> works fine on most any Linux (including the raspberry Pi and other
>> tiny ARM based PCs) and most Macs.
>>
>> If anyone wonders about a particular machine, the easiest way to tell
>> will be to find out if that machine has a JVM of at least version 1.5
>> available.  Currently DW4 requires 1.6, but I think I can bring it
>> back to 1.5 in the next version.
>>
>
> Don't forget about DW3. :) It works perfectly with Win98SE and probably
> Win95.
>

This is true, and if you are only using BASIC, there isn't much reason
to use DW4 at all.
There are a few specific cases where you can do something in DW4 that
doesn't work in DW3, like Lyra for DW, but in general they are
equivalent for HDBDOS/BASIC use.



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