Into the Void

Mr. X was asking about his favorite DOS-based pinochle program again. I was unable to get it running under Windows XP Professional SP2. Not surprising, since I wasn’t able to run it under Windows 2000 Professional either. If I remember correctly, the older versions of Windows actually ran under DOS, so the DOS shell worked. I think Windows 95 was the first version that didn’t. I don’t know - Windows 95 was so unstable that I skipped it entirely. Hung in with Windows 3.1 and the 8.3 filesystem until Windows 2000 came out, and then I bought Windows 98, not 2000. Paranoid, eh?

So here it is, 3AM, and DPIN is running under Windows 98 in a VMWare virtual machine.

Do you know the fellow who wrote this software? I would be interested in an updated version. There are some similar programs available, but Mr. X really likes this one.

Incidentally, Kubrick looks hideous in a 640×480x16 window. But it was usable enough to enable me to write this post.

VMWare virtual machine pinochle kubrick

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