[GEM Development] Ventura Publisher

[Davey Brain]

Liam Proven wrote thusly:
>>I have been offered a copy of Ventura Publisher for GEM on 5.25 disks, 
>>but I
>>don't have a 5.25 drive.  Does anyone here have one?  Would they be 
>>willing
>>to look at the disks and make ZIP copies of the contents?  
> 
> 
> Can do - but if you're willing to pay postage I will happily send you a 
> 5¼" drive (and matching cable) for free!
> 

Better take him up on it, I would be happy to transfer to 3 1/2" and/or 
CD-R also, but I'm in the USA.  I have quite a few computers with 5 1/4" 
drives, both 360K & 1.2M.  BTW, many of the newer BIOS don't have 
support for any 5 1/4" other than a 1.2M (no 360K).  Some only support 3 
1/2" 1.44M and there is talk about writing out floppy support totally 
(which I think is a big mistake, especially for diagnosing sick 
computers; even if nothing else will boot a floppy usually will).

I also have VP for GEM but haven't located it yet.  I found a Xerox disk 
box with VP but I think it's the DOS version.  I'll keep looking.  If I 
can find it this weekend I'll transfer it and zip the disks to you. 
BTW, VP for GEM wasn't bootable was it?  If it was I'd have to RAR it, 
otherwise a straight file copy and zip would do it.
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