yWriter 5 'release' version

[Simon Haynes]

yWriter5 exists in two versions: 5.2.1.2 which is many years old, and works on Windows 2000, and yWriter5 beta 5.6.1.9 which is new, and identical to yWriter7.

I want to keep the old yWriter 5.2.1.2 around, and so I've created a separate page on my website for it:

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_2k.html

From this point on, yWriter5 release version will match the content and features of yWriter6 and yWriter7, and will be regularly updated.

A reminder that yWriter5 is for Windows XP, yWriter6 is for Windows Vista, and yWriter7 is for Windows 7/8/10. Having said that, you can run yWriter5 or 6 on Windows 10 if you want, although anyone using double-byte character sets should absolutely be using yWriter7 for technical reasons I won't go into here.

Cheers

Simon

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[Steven Dilworth]

As is the case so very often, I just checked my yWriter5, which I installed from your download page just a few months ago, and it is 5.2.1.3.  Neither of the version numbers you list above.  Not an important point, because it works for me and that is what matters, just one of those things I've found so often over the 24 years I've been using computers.  : - )

[Simon Haynes]

That was probably a beta release, or else I uploaded 5.2.1.3 years ago and forgot to change the version number on the webpage. (This is meant to be automatic, but I think there was a time when it stopped updating correctly.)

I bought my first computer in 1983. Still have it - a ZX81 with the 16k rampack.

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[Steven Dilworth]

I graduated high school in 1983. Some of my friends had computers and the machines terrified me.  Those guys were the biggest brains in school, and it seemed like you had to understand these incredibly cryptic commands to operate the things.  I was certain I couldn't do it.  Then, in 1996, after the advent of Windows 95, I felt confident enough to give it a go, and my wife and I bought an Acer Aspire.  It came with 2MB of video ram soldered to the motherboard, 32MB EDO Ram and a 4.2GB HDD.  A guy I worked with said that HDD was ludicrous and I'd never fill it up in my lifetime.  A year later I installed the 4 disc Bladerunner game which took up the remaining space with 1.6GB fully installed.  I wound up uninstalling it because my VRam got too bogged down.  I went barebones on my next computer and just installed windows, then I built one from scratch and now I just have an all-in-one because I just want to use it, not play nursemaid.

Believe it or not, I bought a PC5150 for five dollars at a goodwill store.  They thought it was parts only because it wouldn't boot up.  I found someone had upgraded by installing a hardcard.  The hardcard had locked up.  Once removed, that 5 dollar museum piece worked fine.  Lots of fun.  Down in the basement now doing nothing, but it's a neat piece of history.

[Simon Haynes]

Would you believe I still have a copy of the 4-disc bladerunner game? ;-)

I bought a Compaq Pentium 4 last year for ten bucks, just because, and recently I've been picking up core 2 duo and core 2 quad machines to run Linux on - most of them for $20.  Shove 6 or 7 x 1 or 2 tb hard drives in, and they make excellent backup storage devices.

The Compaq is now running XP, and I've got it connected to a $2000 Nikon film scanner which I bought about 12 years ago for $200. (Scsi device, Windows XP-only software.)  I used it to scan all the family films and slides in fairly decent resolution.

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[Steven Dilworth]

I never tried to install it again, but my copy of Bladerunner is still here as well. :-)

Sounds like you've been finding some really good deals on some solid vintage machines.  I miss Linux.  I had Ubuntu installed on the machine I built and ran Windows XP in a virtual machine, but my family hated the way things ran for them on the VM so I just wiped and went back to Windows.  I have no space for other computers now, so this is it.  That film scanner sounds sweet.  I'd never heard of those.  I checked out the Nikon website.  Very nice.