rlfj: Blog

You learn something every day! One of my readers, sacwriter_1, was a post-Vietnam-Era MP and the MOS for MPs back then was 95B. Nowadays it is 31B. When did it change? It turns out to be in the same time frame as the 'Twenty Years Ago' that Marty and Jake enlisted. That would be 2000, and the change occurred in in 2003, before Marty would have left the Army. I had to do a quick edit and reloaded the chapter. Fascinating!

Anyway, Chapter 6 is up now, or will be shortly. Enjoy!

A few readers pointed out that the language school is not in Monterrey, which is a city in Mexico, but in Monterey, which is in California. Ooops. Fixed. Anyway, enjoy!

First things first - Many thanks for the assistance in my problems with an old game. I had over 100 responses. Mind-boggling! I hope to sort it out soon. I apologize for not responding to each of you individually, which is my normal routine, but at 100+ I would never finish!

Chapter 4 will fill in some of the blanks about how our hero (?) learned his trade.

OK! Many, many thanks! I received about 80 responses to my question. I don't need any more answers!

Here's the status - For all you who wrote about running various Windows compatibility options, none of that worked. Trust me, I tried that before, but I gave it a second honest look on reading the responses. It just didn't work. It is looking like I am going to try a VMWare or DOSBox approach. I have my kids, both geek types, checking for Windows 95/98 CDs. I'll need to create the box and then do an install inside the box. Back to being a geek.

I have a problem that some of my readers might be able to assist with. Two weeks ago, my trusty laptop died on me, the keyboard failed. I immediately ran out and bought a new computer and managed to transfer all my files from the old computer to the new. Unfortunately, while my old laptop ran Windows 7, my new laptop runs Windows 10. Why is that important? I have a game called Civilization II that was developed for Windows 95. It didn't run on Windows 7, but Microsoft had a patch that ran a Windows 98 emulator on Windows 7. It opened a window on 7 that ran 98, and you could full-screen the window and copy or run programs inside the 98 window. Unfortunately, they no longer provide that support for Windows 10.

Anybody out there know of an emulator that will work on Windows 10? Maybe somebody else has had this problem? Let me know. Thanks!