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    From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to Wang Bu on Mon Oct 13 06:39:05 2025
    Hi Wang,
    In a message to All you wrote:

    I wonder if you have good QWK Reader recommendations that works on
    Windows 11? Back then I used Blue Wave and Silver Xpress but I guess
    they won't be working with newer PCs now.

    I run things under dosbox-x and they work fine. :) Typing to you from
    sempoint which is an amazing qwk/bluewave/point program for 16 bit windows. Running it from dosbox-x and a win 3.1 install.

    Silver Xpress has some pretty nasty y2k bugs that were not fixed, but
    the patched bluewave that's out there works great.

    ... Rotisserie: A ferris wheel for chickens.


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  • From Wang Bu@VERT/JACOBCAT to Tiny on Tue Oct 14 00:26:53 2025
    Re: Good Offline QWK Reader
    By: Tiny to Wang Bu on Mon Oct 13 2025 06:39 am

    Hi Tiny!

    I run things under dosbox-x and they work fine. :) Typing to you from sempoint which is an amazing qwk/bluewave/point program for 16 bit windows. Running it from dosbox-x and a win 3.1 install.

    Silver Xpress has some pretty nasty y2k bugs that were not fixed, but
    the patched bluewave that's out there works great.

    I wanted to be able to run the QWK program right away, so I prefer a native program. But I'd probably try that as well, I missed using BlueWave.

    I didn't like SX that much either; I think I used both BW and SX because the BBSes I connected to offer downloading proprietary offline mail formats which were better than regular QWK. BW by far was the best choice back then as long as the BBS had it installed.

    Thanks!


    Wang

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