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  • Rebel3 and Windows 10

    From David Eather@21:1/5 to nospam@nowhere.com on Tue Aug 25 16:56:45 2015
    On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:59:53 +1000, nospam@nowhere.com
    <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Hi,

    Does anyone know how to run Rebel 3 (Decade 10) on Windows 10?

    I've tried DOSbox but it doesn't work with Rebel.
    Tried the Compatability thing in W10 but no.

    Thanks for any help.

    Arthur

    if you have a 64-bit machine then the answer is it won't run. 16-bit functionality has been deleted, but it may work if you have a 32-bit system

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  • From nospam@nowhere.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 25 20:32:36 2015
    Hi David,

    Thanks for the bad news, it will keep me from wasting anymore time on
    this subject.

    I think I will use my very old WinXP machine as a dedicated chess
    machine because I can't see abandoning Rebel.

    Regards,

    Arthur Smith

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  • From nospam@nowhere.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 25 01:59:53 2015
    Hi,

    Does anyone know how to run Rebel 3 (Decade 10) on Windows 10?

    I've tried DOSbox but it doesn't work with Rebel.
    Tried the Compatability thing in W10 but no.

    Thanks for any help.

    Arthur

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to nospam@nowhere.com on Wed Aug 26 07:52:36 2015
    On 26/08/2015 01:32, nospam@nowhere.com wrote:
    Hi David,

    Thanks for the bad news, it will keep me from wasting anymore time on
    this subject.

    I think I will use my very old WinXP machine as a dedicated chess
    machine because I can't see abandoning Rebel.

    You should be able to install an old copy of XP setup inside a virtual
    machine running on the new OS. Then you have the new faster CPU and the
    old OS that supports the old 16bit components presumably in Rebel.

    Chances are you have mislaid such prehistoric license keys but several
    tools will recover them with ease.

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    Regards,
    Martin Brown

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  • From nospam@nowhere.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 28 00:13:41 2015
    You should be able to install an old copy of XP setup inside a virtual >machine running on the new OS. Then you have the new faster CPU and the
    old OS that supports the old 16bit components presumably in Rebel.

    Chances are you have mislaid such prehistoric license keys but several
    tools will recover them with ease.

    Martin,

    Thank you for your comments.

    As you say I have mislaid my old Win Xp disk. What tools can be used
    to recover them? I never thought to do that.

    Regards,

    Arthur Smith

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to nospam@nowhere.com on Fri Aug 28 12:11:30 2015
    On 28/08/2015 05:13, nospam@nowhere.com wrote:


    You should be able to install an old copy of XP setup inside a virtual
    machine running on the new OS. Then you have the new faster CPU and the
    old OS that supports the old 16bit components presumably in Rebel.

    Chances are you have mislaid such prehistoric license keys but several
    tools will recover them with ease.

    Martin,

    Thank you for your comments.

    As you say I have mislaid my old Win Xp disk. What tools can be used
    to recover them? I never thought to do that.

    NIRsoft (sp?) and Recover Keys will do it. The free version will only do
    OS's. I had mislaid a genuine Office disk cover & key for Office XP.

    Failing hard disk required a reinstall but without the key it was
    impossible and MickeySoft just wanted me to buy new Office 2007.

    https://recover-keys.com/

    Is the one that has worked for me in the past.
    I can't recall if it will find keys for chess programmes or not.

    Seems unreasonable that they demand product registration but won't let
    you know your magic codes again if you mislay the original packaging.

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    Regards,
    Martin Brown

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