OT: Einstein Writer under QEMU

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:37:06AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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> On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:45 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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>> I'm trying to help someone run Einstein Writer under QEMU. I set up a 
>> virtual machine and installed FreeDos on it.
>>
>> I found a demo of Einstein which is supposed to be a running version  
>> of it.
>>
>> When I start it up, I get a few English words and a lot of junk on the 
>> screen. I assume I am missing installing Hebrew support in the virtual 
>> video card.
>>
>> I did a web search and found a wikipedia entry for codepage 862. I  
>> tried to load it with the FreeDos command display con=(ega,862,1). It 
>> loads, but I still get garbage.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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> To answer my own question, I found a dos boot disk complete with the  
> necessary files and Einstein all on it. It was designed for a different 
> virtualization system, but it works with QEMU:
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> http://masa0000.googlepages.com/eini.zip
>
>
>> Alternatively is there a way to convert EinsteinWriter files to  
>> something useable without Einstein itself?
>
>
> Still looking for an answer.

IIRC it was mostly text with rather simple controls ("escape sequences")
for markup. Did you look at its files?
-- 
Didi