Re: [NTLK] Fighting Complacency within the Newton Community

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On Aug 23, 2006, at 23.36, Matt Howe wrote:

> I have recently lost my Win98SE machine and had to connect via my XP
> machine. After many failures I eventually set up Microsoft Virtual
> PC and
> created a virtual Win98SE machine with NCU. I have connected,
> imported,
> loaded and backed up my Newton flawlessly since. As you get caught
> up on
> your list Emails I'm sure you'll see where I discussed this before
> but for
> all of the XP users out there I thought it was worth mentioning
> again. Also,
> anyone who has questions on how to set this up, feel free to ask.
> Maybe I
> should write up something for WikiNewt?

It can't hurt, but it's not like it's that big a thing, no offense.
People have been running OSes in Emulators/Virtualizers for a while,
for this purpose (See: People running OS 9 in PPC Emulators). It
might be worth mentioning Qemu, a free equivalent to VirtualPC,
exists. Not sure how hooking up serial ports works with that, though.

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