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  • Sempoint: Any tips on getting this to work?

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Vk3jed on Tue Jan 5 08:45:00 2021
    Hello Vk3jed!

    ** On Tuesday 05.01.21 - 19:55, Vk3jed wrote to NuSkooler:

    Any tips on getting this to work? When I run the SETUP.EXE ...

    Strange. I installed WineVDM, then simply installed SemPoint and accepted the defaults. I can run it by double clicking on the icon or the .exe, just like any other Windows program. I'm running under 64 bit Win 10. Other than looking like a Windows 3.x program,
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Hey.. I resemble that remark! Sempoint is looks much BETTER
    than a typical Win 3.x program. ;)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Ogg on Wed Jan 6 19:10:00 2021
    On 01-05-21 08:45, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Hey.. I resemble that remark! Sempoint is looks much BETTER
    than a typical Win 3.x program. ;)

    Well it looks more like Win3.1 than than a modern 32/64 bit program when running on Windows 10 under WineVDM. :)


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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Vk3jed on Wed Jan 6 08:10:00 2021
    Hello Vk3jed!

    ** On Wednesday 06.01.21 - 19:10, Vk3jed wrote to Ogg:

    Hey.. I resemble that remark! Sempoint is looks much BETTER
    than a typical Win 3.x program. ;)

    Well it looks more like Win3.1 than than a modern 32/64 bit program when running on Windows 10 under WineVDM. :)

    Oh ok, you've got it hovering in a window or something. Sure..
    then the design differences scream out.

    But you have to admit that Sempoint's design is well thought out
    and not gimmicky or cuetsy.

    BTW.. I actually liked the way Win-OS2 could present a DOS
    window, an OS2 native window and a Windows window all at the
    same time AND be able to recognize the differences.


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Ogg on Fri Jan 8 19:18:00 2021
    On 01-06-21 08:10, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Oh ok, you've got it hovering in a window or something. Sure..
    then the design differences scream out.

    Yeah it opens it's own window as any other Windows app does.

    But you have to admit that Sempoint's design is well thought out
    and not gimmicky or cuetsy.

    Visually, yes. SOme of the navigation wasn't quite as intuitive. Worked it out, but still a bit GUI oriented for me.

    BTW.. I actually liked the way Win-OS2 could present a DOS
    window, an OS2 native window and a Windows window all at the
    same time AND be able to recognize the differences.

    Well, The version of WineVDM I'm running is a bit similar.


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