PRESERVED MILITARY VEHICLES diskettes - need to open, won't run n Wondows 10???!!!

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PRESERVED MILITARY VEHICLES diskettes - need to open, won't run n Wondows 10???!!!

Post by DDTrustee » Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:28 pm

Back a decade or so ago – there were a series of diskettes called the PRESERVED MILITARY VEHICLES in Volumes 1, 2, and 3 with hundreds of pictures on them…. You had to run the software to see them and could print them. My MS 10 PC will not run the software!!!??? Anyone has a fix? The company that did them was enygmag.com based in the UK. Anyone help? Tried the web – no address hits.
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Re: PRESERVED MILITARY VEHICLES diskettes - need to open, won't run n Wondows 10???!!!

Post by DesertRick » Sun Aug 21, 2022 1:56 pm

Might try using Compatibility Mode...https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... eea0f45938

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Re: PRESERVED MILITARY VEHICLES diskettes - need to open, won't run n Wondows 10???!!!

Post by YLG80 » Mon Aug 22, 2022 6:39 am

DDTrustee wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:28 pm
Back a decade or so ago – there were a series of diskettes called the PRESERVED MILITARY VEHICLES in Volumes 1, 2, and 3 with hundreds of pictures on them…. You had to run the software to see them and could print them. My MS 10 PC will not run the software!!!??? Anyone has a fix? The company that did them was enygmag.com based in the UK. Anyone help? Tried the web – no address hits.
As mentioned here above, try first to run the program in compatibility mode. Right click on the exe file and select compatibility.
If it does not run:

For the fun, here is the website advertisement in june 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20020605074 ... y/home.htm

DISK DRIVE
Once you have found a working disk drive supposedly 1,44Mb capacity( usb for example), I would immediately perform a disk image of each diskette and store the images on a hard disk.
Just to be sure to preserve the content. 1.44Mb diskette are definitely not reliable when aging. 720Kb diskettes would be OK most of the time.
Here you can find a diskette drive:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-3-5-i ... LRWY40RYVT

DISKETTE IMAGING SOFTWARE FOR FREE
https://www.winimage.com/download/winima85.zip

VIRTUALBOX
Then I would install a Windows XP Virtual image in your modern PC. With VirtualBox for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJupnHcxpE

XP SP2 or SP3 install CD.
If you still have a Windows XP install CD you will be able to install XP in the Virtualbox very easily.
If not there are ready-to-use XP Virtual box images available on the net with a free Microsoft licence.
https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to ... albox.html

Then you will be able to play the old program within the virtual XP image...for ever :wink:

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