On Friday 03 June 2011 21:36, Robert Riches ([email protected]) opined: > On 2011-06-03, Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:59:46 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:49:10 +0100, "Roger Donne" >>><[email protected]> declaimed the following in >>>soc.genealogy.computing: >>> >>>> I've just got a new computer running Windows 7 64 bit and I am >>>> migrating all >>>> my genealogy data and programs from my old Windows XP machine. All is >>>> going >>>> well except for the LDS 1851 census CD - I can't even get SETUP to >>>> run. The CD was produced some time ago (1997) but I still find this >>>> to be a very >>>> useful resource for my Devon families research. Can anyone help? >>>> Roger >>> >>>1997 is still possibly in the time frame of 16-bit applications. >>>Such applications could be run on 32-bit Windows 9x/XP... I do not >>>believe any 64-bit processor can support 16-bit applications. >> >> My laptop came with Windows 7 64-bit installed, but with a DVD with the >> 32-bit version. When it wouldn't run most of my most frequently-used >> programs, I installed the 32-bit version PDQ. >> >> But it bodes ill for the preservation of information collected on >> computers in the last 60 years or so. So much of it will become >> inaccessible. > > Not necessarily. Lots of newer and older software works quite > well under WINE, including Ohana's GetMyAncestors, PAF4, PAF5, > and two versions of the (LDS) Scriptures on CDROM. PAF5 has the > most difficulties, but it's easy to find a WINE version that runs > it at least well enough to convert the data to some other format > (like GEDCOM). > The other shoe that Robert hasn't mentioned is that WINE runs under Unix, Linux and Mac/OS-X operating systems. It will normally run "well behaved" Windows programs but seems to have problems with the bleeding edge stuff. See http://www.winehq.org for more details. Superb Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes -- Thomas Paine

Bob Melson wrote: > The other shoe that Robert hasn't mentioned is that WINE runs under > Unix, Linux and Mac/OS-X operating systems. It will normally run "well > behaved" Windows programs but seems to have problems with the bleeding > edge stuff. See http://www.winehq.org for more details. The intersect is, unfortunately, even narrower than that. It can be fussy as to hardware. It assumes (or at least it did on any version I tested & I used to run its test suite on the development builds every 2 or 3 weeks) that if your graphics driver reports it only handles 24 bits (e.g. my Intel-graphics-based laptop, my Via-based thin-client, etc) it will really handle 32. This trips up any S/W, bleeding-edge or otherwise that then tries to send 32-bit bitmaps including Enterprise Architect in my case and Visual Basic in another report I read. Bug reports were dismissed on the basis that it's not a bug, it's a feature - AIUI some drivers behave like that and deliver better performance, presumably for gaming. In the end I just went back to the 1.1 stable source, applied my one word bugfix and have stuck with that since. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk