News for Zoot fans

Posted by Derek Cornish
Mar 8, 2008 at 08:29 PM

Cassius wrote:

>1) I, too, still use GV
>for some things on Win XP. Derek, what settings (PIF, etc.) or supplementary software
>do you use to make GV as friendly as possible on XP? —Maybe I should start another topic
>on this as a number of us still use GV.
> >2) I have the same feeling about the Mac, but my
>current laptop is only 15 months old. Another incentive: From what I’ve read, Vista is
>an abomination. The main drawback to switching is moving all info/documents from Win
>software to Mac Software. Anyone have a “magic” solution?
> >3) Derek, all that great
>DOS software? Either you must be almost as old as I or you were a boy prodigy.
> >4) I
>do/did a lot of math/stat work, so rtf is/was important. (In GV, I used HP printer codes
>to create math equations.)
>

1. I’ve put my pif settings on the new thread.

2. I’d be interested in that. The great thing these days is that one can run favourite Windows programs on the MAC. Zoot, in my case. Not sure how DOS programs would fare, though…

3. Probably the former :-). But I was cursed - Buggins’s turn - with being Department representative on I.T. matters for many years at my university, so got hooked relatively early via BBC Acorn computers, Zenith luggables, etc. But it wasn’t until the mid-90s that I had a really decent toolbox of DOS programs. By that time the real whizkids had migrated to OS/2 and Windows.

4. I was never as adept at getting the most out of GV as you were. I still have your key customizations.

Derek