<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;">It turns out that a scroll mouse will work, at least on Windows 7. The scroll wheel also has a button.<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Eventually, I expect to break down and buy a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, a monitor, a USB disk drive, and another mouse, and throw it together to make a basic Linux system, and then try Oberon on Linux.<BR><BR>--- d.gloetzel@web.de wrote:<BR><BR>From: Dieter <d.gloetzel@web.de><BR>To: <oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch><BR>Subject: Re: [Oberon] Windows 8.1<BR>Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:26:06 +0200<BR><BR>
<DIV>Hi<BR>
I have the version<FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><BR>
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<FONT face="Trebuchet MS">"</FONT>ETH: Plugin Oberon for
Windows Win32 2.5 (18.12.2010)" </SPAN></FONT>running on
Windows 7 and 8.1.<BR>
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Make sure you have a functioning 3-button mouse.<BR>
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What do we expect for Windows 10?<BR>
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Regards, Dieter<BR>
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Am 27.07.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Jörg Straube:<BR>
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<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Hi</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Two different Oberon versions are running on
my PC (Windows 7)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- ETH: Plugin Oberon for Windows Win32 2.5
(18.12.2010) </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Linz: Oberon for Windows V4.0-2.3</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">I did not test these version on Windows 8.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">If the first is not running on your Windows
8.1, you might try the other one </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Wingdings" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><A>ftp://ftp.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/Oberon/</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">br</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Jörg</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><B><FONT face="Calibri" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold" lang="DE">Von:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face="Calibri" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="DE"> John R. Strohm [<A href="mailto:strohm@airmail.net">mailto:strohm@airmail.net</A>]
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<B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">Gesendet:</SPAN></B>
Sonntag, 26. Juli 2015 21:14<BR>
<B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">An:</SPAN></B>
<A href="mailto:Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch">Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</A><BR>
<B><SPAN style="font-weight:bold">Betreff:</SPAN></B>
[Oberon] Windows 8.1</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">Does anyone have the appropriate set of
magickal incantations necessary to get Oberon
running under Microsoft Windows 8.1?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">I have the old Windows Plugin version
running under Windows 7 Home, by running it in NT 4
compatibility mode. (Without compatibility mode, it
would start, opening the desktop, but the
directories weren’t mapped properly, so most files
couldn’t be found.) It won’t even open the desktop
on 8.1, at all. Windows 8.1 Home (presumably) never
heard of NT compatibility mode.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">Or is it time to abandon hope of
running Oberon on Windows, and build a Linux box?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color="black" face="Calibri" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">--John
R. Strohm</SPAN></FONT></P>
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