On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Kevin Ryan wrote:
Thanks to all for the tips.
Here's one more: get the *free* Oracle VM VirtualBox emulator. There are several different versions of hosts and emulations in the Virtualbox family; we have the XP emulator running on Win7 Pro.
In the emulator we run several legacy applications, including FM7, that either ran poorly or not at all under Win7. (FM7 would work for a short while in Win7, but then would get so slow it had to be stopped and restarted.)
After a year the emulation environment has so far proven flawless and is fast enough to do real-time audio. You can mount file systems outside the emulator; and you can copy and paste between apps inside and outside of the emulator. The emulator can be selectively connected to resources of the host system, such as USB ports. The only flaw is that it does not support access to a firewire port.
persists, I will try the XP mode.
The internal emulations and "compatibilty modes" provided by the newer Windows are very hit and miss. Some of the modes that Win7 suggests after it "looks" at an old app are completely wrong; or, you sometimes intentionally run the "wrong" emulation to get something to work. The VM approach has proven so much more reliable.
Good luck with it. I remember the panic felt when our new Win7 box refused to run our database program (with customer records going back to the mid 1970s) and the horror at the thought of a six month project to re-build that complex database. It was a bright and sunny day indeed when that same old database came right up in the XP environment provided by Virtualbox.
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