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Originally Posted by Ted Craven
Agreed re Virtual Box or VMWare. However, we've dealt with how the c:\val4\trkmast folder (or c:\spec160\trkmast) folder needs to look when Val4 is MOUNTed in Dosbox as a Drive Volume (e.g. Drive C).
I don't want to research it, but it's all been discussed in this forum before.
Ted
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There's no need to research this, nor should anyone expect you to, Ted. The Modern Sartin Methodology "moved on" to RDSS, and older programs, even if their effectiveness is as good now as they were 15-20+ years ago, will be what they will be, limitations and all. As both myself and Ray Lopez pointed out, Val4/Spec still works in Windows XP. If a user is ambitious enough to set up a virtual XP environment, or has an old XP computer collecting dust in a closet/garage and wish to play around with the past, more power to them.
Caveat emptor: virtually all modern web browsers no longer support XP, so most websites are DOA with XP's default Internet Explorer. The advantage of virtualization is that you can set up a folder that works between the native system (Windows 10) and the virtual environment (XP), and if lucky, might be able to find a 3rd party browser compatible with XP that will load sites that Internet Explorer would normally regurgitate.