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    From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to Wang Bu on Mon Oct 13 06:39:05 2025
    Hi Wang,
    In a message to All you wrote:

    I wonder if you have good QWK Reader recommendations that works on
    Windows 11? Back then I used Blue Wave and Silver Xpress but I guess
    they won't be working with newer PCs now.

    I run things under dosbox-x and they work fine. :) Typing to you from
    sempoint which is an amazing qwk/bluewave/point program for 16 bit windows. Running it from dosbox-x and a win 3.1 install.

    Silver Xpress has some pretty nasty y2k bugs that were not fixed, but
    the patched bluewave that's out there works great.

    ... Rotisserie: A ferris wheel for chickens.


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  • From Wang Bu@VERT/JACOBCAT to Tiny on Tue Oct 14 00:26:53 2025
    Re: Good Offline QWK Reader
    By: Tiny to Wang Bu on Mon Oct 13 2025 06:39 am

    Hi Tiny!

    I run things under dosbox-x and they work fine. :) Typing to you from sempoint which is an amazing qwk/bluewave/point program for 16 bit windows. Running it from dosbox-x and a win 3.1 install.

    Silver Xpress has some pretty nasty y2k bugs that were not fixed, but
    the patched bluewave that's out there works great.

    I wanted to be able to run the QWK program right away, so I prefer a native program. But I'd probably try that as well, I missed using BlueWave.

    I didn't like SX that much either; I think I used both BW and SX because the BBSes I connected to offer downloading proprietary offline mail formats which were better than regular QWK. BW by far was the best choice back then as long as the BBS had it installed.

    Thanks!


    Wang

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Wang Bu on Tue Oct 14 00:19:38 2025
    Re: Good Offline QWK Reader
    By: Wang Bu to Tiny on Tue Oct 14 2025 12:26 am

    I wanted to be able to run the QWK program right away, so I prefer
    a native program. But I'd probably try that as well, I missed using BlueWave.

    you can make a shortcut and click it and run it right away.
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  • From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to Wang Bu on Tue Oct 14 05:23:59 2025
    Hi Wang,
    On <Wed, 14 Oct 25>, you wrote me:

    I wanted to be able to run the QWK program right away, so I prefer a native program. But I'd probably try that as well, I missed using BlueWave.

    It's not perfect using dosbox, but it works. I created shortcuts for
    Sempoint and bluewave that launch dosbox-x and the program I want.

    I didn't like SX that much either; I think I used both BW and SX
    because the BBSes I connected to offer downloading proprietary
    offline mail formats which were better than regular QWK. BW by far
    was the best choice back then as long as the BBS had it installed.

    Bluewave was the best choice for sure! I was a huge fan of the format
    and used it for years. I'm currently connecting to a synchronet board
    and the version of QWK built into sync is the best there is. Long subject lines, etc. Sempoint can deal with threads and the rest of the good stuff
    and keeps a local squish database.

    ... If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?


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